Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010, Human Rights Watch |
Jan 21,2009 |
Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the deaths of at least 200 protesters, many of them victims of excessive use of force by the police. Broad patterns of government repression have prevented the emergence of organized opposition in most of [More...] |
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Ethiopia: Land of Silence and Starvation |
November 9, 2009 |
Aid agencies that dare to speak out publicly, or even to allow a photo of a malnourished child at a feeding centre, can be punished or expelled from the country. Visas or work permits are often denied, projects can be delayed, and import approvals for vital equipment can be buried. Most relief agencies are prohibited from allowing visits by journalists or foreigners, except under strict government [More...] |
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TPLF Regime Jailed and Deported American Volunteers After Accusing them of "overknowledging" students |
26-August-2009 |
The officials gave each of us a different reason about what we were doing wrong in the country. My favorite was that we were “overknowledging” our students by challenging them in the classroom. While we were never given an official reason for our deportation, many of us believe it had to do with the ethnicity of the students we were teaching: Oromo. [More...] |
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Meles' Growing Problems at Home and Abroad |
August 13, 2009 |
And famine looms once more. At that suggestion, Mr Meles narrows his eyes and growls, “That is a lie, an absolute lie.” There is more than enough food in government warehouses to feed the people, he says. But others say stockpiled grain has already been earmarked for handing out to people in the towns. [More...] |
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IPI & CPJ React to Dictator Regime of Ethiopia's Attempt to Silence NTV |
11-August-2009 |
Kenya’s ‘Nation’ Media Group Tells IPI It Will Resist Government Pressure Over Investigative Documentary about Ethiopian Rebel Fighters [More...] |
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Ethiopia Threatens Kenya Over Media Coverage of OLF Fighters (Video) |
August 7, 2009 |
Meles Zenawi launched a diplomatic offensive to block NTV's four-part investigative report on the Oromo Liberation Front, Appeals to cancel the series were backed by Kenya's Foreign ministry, which argued that Kenya's national interests were at stake in the diplomatic row. [More...] |
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New Anti-Terrorism Proclamation Jeopardizes Freedom of Expression in Ethiopia |
July 9, 2009 |
the new law says “Whosoever writes, edits, prints, publishes, publicises, disseminates, shows, makes to be heard any promotional statements encouraging… terrorist acts is punishable with rigorous imprisonment from 10 to 20 years,”. [More...] |
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The declaration of Afar People’s Party (APP) |
July 9, 2009 |
The present socioeconomic and political atmosphere in Ethiopia in general and in Afar region in particular has reached unbearable level, where poverty, corruption, injustice and nepotism prevail. [More...] |
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Ethiopia Blocks Food Supply as Millions Go Hungry |
June 17, 2009 |
The government of Ethiopia has put a restriction on trucks with food supplies and prioritized trucks of fertilizers into the country as nine million Ethiopians face hunger and three months of starvation. [More...] |
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Oromo volunteers in Australia recognized by the Federal Government |
June 16, 2009 |
Mr. Aliye Geleto Anota, the young and vibrant current President of the Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria, Inc., Mr. Sura Itafa, the highly dedicated and renown Oromo artist, and Mr. Shangale Ali, one of the founding members of the Oromo Community Association in Australia (founded in 1984) were the recipients of the “Certificate of Appreciation to Australian Volunteers.” [More...] |
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