White House urges Ethiopia to release journalists
Long criticized for human rights abuses and attacks on press freedom, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and his ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front coalition has been in power for more than two decades and captured every seat in May's parliamentary elections. (Associated Press) Long criticized for human rights abuses and attacks on press freedom, […]
DW Radio debate on the crisis in Oromia region Ethiopia
https://youtu.be/TuhB45Kr0NY
The Red Sea Is Slipping into Total Arab Control – Amb. Herman Cohen
The Red Sea Is Slipping into Total Arab Control Amb. Herman Cohen | www.cohenonafrica.com | December 29, 2015 Hey, all you Abyssinians out there. While you are wasting time squabbling with each other and not talking to each other, the governments of the Arabian Peninsula are eating your lunch. Have you noticed that warships from the […]
Petition to the UN secretary general on the ceding of Ethiopian territories to Sudan Ethiopian Border Affairs Committee
December 30, 2015 H.E Mr. Ban Ki-Moon United Nations Secretary General 1st Avenue, 46th Street New York, NY 10017Subject: Petition on the ceding of Ethiopian lands to the Sudan by the Ethiopian government December 14, 2015 Your Excellency: We the undersigned Ethiopian religious, political, civic and media organizations have appealed to you several times concerning […]
Restrictive Ethiopia cuts an economic dash
By Mary HarperAfrica editor, BBC World Service News 30 December 2015 From the sectionAfrica Image captionA locally managed shoe factory is giving Chinese competitors in Ethiopia a run for their money “I retired at 24,” says Samuel Alemayehu, as we look out over the vast, stinking rubbish mountain in the heart of Addis Ababa. Birds […]
ለሰብዓዊ መብት ውይይት መቋረጥ ምክንያት የሆነው የመብት ጥያቄ
December 30, 2015 በዚሁ ሰፊ አዳራሽ ባለው ጠባብ በር ከዩኒቨርሲቲው ማኅበረሰብ ጋር ተጋፍቶ የወጣው ለምሳ ነበር፡፡ ርቦታልም፡፡ ደጃፍ ላይ ቆሞ ግን አጠገቡ ከሚታየው የምግብ ገበታ ይልቅ ዩኒቨርሲቲው በር ላይ የሆነ ነገር ቀልቡን የሳበው ይመስላል፡፡ እጃቸው ላይ ደብተርና ስክርቢቶ የያዙ በርከት ያሉ ተማሪዎችና ሌሎችም ተለቅ ተለቅ ያሉ ሻንጣዎች ያነገቡ (አስተማሪዎች ሳይሆኑ አይቀሩም) ሰብሰብ ሰብሰብ ብለው […]
ETHIOPIA-SUDAN: Border committee to settle demarcation issue
Photo: IRIN NAIROBI, 26 April 2001 (IRIN) – The Sudanese-Ethiopian border committee will present an agreement to a joint ministerial meeting to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, between 30 April and 3 May. The recently established Sudanese-Ethiopian committee had been commended for its “positive results” by Sudanese Foreign Minister Dr Mustafa Uthman […]
Time for Ethiopia’s Ruling Party to Take Full Responsibility for its Failures
By Leenco Lata December 28, 2015 Mass protests are once again sweeping throughout the largest and most populous Oromia Regional State of the Ethiopian . Their widespread nature and their persistence for close to a month, make these protests one of the most unprecedented in the history of contemporary Ethiopia. Even the 1974 mass […]
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan reach deal on controversial Nile dam
Sudanese Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Ghandour Tuesday, 29 December 2015 15:30 Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement regarding a controversial mega-dam project being built by Addis Ababa on the Nile.The deal crowned three days of talks between the irrigation and foreign ministers of the three countries in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. The agreement […]
Ethiopian Dam Crisis: Agreement Reached Between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan
EGYPTIAN STREETS DECEMBER 29, 2015 On March 23, 2015, Egypt’s President Sisi, Sudan’s President Al-Bashir and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Desalegn signed a preliminary deal to end the water crisis. Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed an agreement aimed at curbing Egypt’salarm at the speed of which the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (‘the dam’) is being constructed. […]