Ethiopia: Confessions of a Police State ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM
The trashing of constitutional rights The Ethiopian Constitution guarantees, “Persons arrested have the right to remain silent. Persons arrested shall not be compelled to make confessions or admissions...
View ArticleEthnic Politics and Individual Rights: An Alternative Vision for Ethiopia...
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain government.” Patrick Henry The prevailing assumption, which originates...
View ArticleLet the People go! Travel ban does not solve the problem:- Temesgen Zewdie
The recent decision by the government of Ethiopia to ban domestic workers from traveling to the Middle East and Arab countries is myopic at best and stone-age governance at worst. Any sensible...
View ArticleOne of the Tigrai People’s Liberation Front’s founder Sebhat Nega lying right...
I listened the interview of Sebhat Nega on Sunday, October 20, 2013 with Dereje Desta of ZeEthiopia newspaper. In case you missed it visit http://zethiopia.com/Sibehat%20Nega%20Zethiopia%20interview...
View ArticleEthiopian opposition alleges killings, abuse – AFP
A leading Ethiopian opposition party said in a report Thursday that scores of its members and supporters had been killed, abused or jailed over the past two years. “The report has information on human...
View ArticleEthiopian opposition says members beaten, illegally detained – (Reuters)
(Reuters) – An Ethiopian opposition group accused police and security officials of beating, illegally detaining and abducting more than 150 of its members between July and September this year. The Horn...
View ArticleETHIOPIA AND SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE BLUE NILE Tecola W. Hagos
“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.” James Russell Lowell. PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT AND...
View ArticleMining corruption in Ethiopia By Alemayehu G Mariam
In the past few months, the ruling regime has been grandstanding its “anti-corruption” efforts by corralling a few officials of the “Revenue and Custom’s Authority” and businessmen on charges of...
View ArticleEgypt objections delay Ethiopia dam panel
Khartoum – Egyptian objections are delaying the formation of a committee to implement expert recommendations on an Ethiopian dam project, which Cairo fears could diminish its water supply, Ethiopia’s...
View ArticleAfricans must speak up for journalist jailed in Ethiopia
The award-winning Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega will turn 45 this month in Kaliti prison outside Addis Ababa whilst serving an 18-year sentence as a convicted terrorist. The government in Addis...
View ArticleEthiopia on heightened alert for attacks by Somali militants (Reuters)
Ethiopia has put its police and security forces on heightened alert after receiving strong evidence that Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab group is planning attacks in the country, officials said on...
View ArticleFour killed in bomb blast as Ethiopia raises security alert: official
Four people were killed when a bomb blast tore through a minibus in western Ethiopia late on Tuesday, at about the same time that the government warned of imminent attacks by militants, an official...
View ArticleSMNE Calls for Strong Measures from the International Community, Donors and...
The Government of Ethiopia is broadly soliciting for development aid, foreign-based business partnerships and financial investors; yet, the unpopular ruling party has been accused of abuse of state...
View ArticleEthiopia: The “liberty of movement” ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM
“Government announces temporary ban on traveling abroad for work” In an effort to curb the rising tide of abuse and exploitation of Ethiopian migrants, [there will be] a temporary freeze on citizens...
View ArticleSaudi police in Riyadh clash with migrant workers(BBC)
At least two people have been killed and scores wounded as Saudi police clashed with protesting foreign workers in a district of the capital, Riyadh. A police statement said hundreds of people were...
View ArticleThe Brutality Of Ethiopian Migrant Workers In Saudi Arabia Is Not New By...
As Saudi Arabia curbs its vital but “illegal” migrant population violently this week to appease high unemployment, I cannot help but reflect on my moment with such destitute citizens a few years ago....
View ArticleSavagery against Ethiopians: Shame on you Saudis and Khalid bin Sultan Tecola...
If anyone doubts the subhuman status of Saudis, the events of three days ago, which is still in process, leaves no rooms for such doubts. The Saudi Government sanctioned brutality against Ethiopians,...
View ArticleThe State of Eri-Ethio Relations in the Diaspora Today – Amanuel Biedemariam
In February of 2009, Ethiopians joined fellow Eritreans to demonstrate against the illegal and unjust sanctions the US and TPLF authored and passed. That was the first time Ethiopians, adorned with...
View ArticleWounded in Addis, finished off in Riyadh – Ephrem Madebo
From China to Ethiopia and from Belarus to Saudi Arabia, there is no shortage of repressive regimes in the world. In general, repressive societies are defined as exerting pervasive state control over...
View ArticleHOW LONG DOES THE ETHIOPIAN SOCIETY TREAT JUST SYMPTOMS AND NOT THE ROOT...
Extremely Upsetting! These past few days we Ethiopian people have been screaming our lungs out en mass all around the world in almost all continents – even in Saudi Arabia itself and Beirut –...
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