Trafficking and torturing Eritrean refugees By Graham Peebles May 20, 2014 Eritrean activists overseas protest against the increasingly repressive regime of President Isaias Afwerki (Photo: Meskerem.net) Life in Eritrea is…
President Obama and Ethiopia’s call for freedom Video May 20, 2014 On May 8, 2014, Ethiopian journalist and freedom activist Abebe Gellaw interrupted President Barack Obama at a Democratic National…
Silencing Zone9 by hook or crook By Hindessa Abdul May 20, 2014 Journalists are not terrorists Reporters Without Borders has learnt today that the court in Addis Ababa granted the…
African camels show MERS virus more widespread than believed Bloomberg News May 19, 2014 GENEVA — The deadly respiratory virus that has spread from Saudi Arabia around the world was…
The “Farce” of U.S. Diplocrisy By Alemayehu G Mariam May 19, 2014 Is the Obama Administration’s human rights policy a “farce”? Last week U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called…
OLF makes an urgent call for a unified action Press Release May 18, 2014 The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Kamal Galchu would like to…
Kenenisa, Tirunesh Dibaba coast to Manchester victories By Carl de Souza | AFP May 18, 2014 Ethiopian athletics legends Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba eased to victory in their respective…
Troublesome 9’s: Article 39 and Article 49 of the Ethiopian Constitution By Kal’ayu Abraha May 18, 2014 Two of the six major goals of the US constitution are to form…
Sudan arrests opposition leader al-Mahdi, could face death penalty By Khalid Abdel Aziz May 18, 2014 Former PM Sadiq Al-Mahdi (Reuters) KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi was…
The 8 worst countries to be religious By CNN May 17, 2014 WASHINGTON — Since 1999, the U.S. State Department has tracked the world’s worst abusers of religious rights. As…