New US Senate Resolution on Ethiopia Introduced

BY SENATORS MARC RUBIO & BEN CARDIN U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) today introduced a Senate resolution condemning excessive use of force by Ethiopian security forces that led to hundreds of deaths last year, and calling on the Ethiopian government to release all political opposition, dissidents, activists, and journalists and to […]

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President Isaias: TPLF Regime in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

By Bereket Kidane, In an interview with local journalists in late January, President Isaias Afwerki compared Ethiopia’s ruling party to a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital and said that the country’s declaration of a State of Emergency was yet another futile attempt to put down an organic insurgency. In remarks […]

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Ethnic Tensions in Gondar Reflect the Toxic Nature of Ethiopian Politics

From uneven development to authoritarian government, the morass of issues facing the city of Gondar offer a snapshot of Ethiopia’s wider problems By William Davidson | Bloomberg, In Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, a lone tourist pauses to take a photo of a fortress built more than two centuries ago. Nearby, past a […]

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Ethiopian Unrest Triggers Collapse in Tourism

By John Aglionby | for Financial Times, A wave of anti-government protests and the imposition of a state of emergency has triggered a collapse in tourism bookings in Ethiopia, underlining the effect the unrest is having on one of Africa’s best-performing economies. As the demonstrations spread across the country, governments, including the US, UK, Australia, […]

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Ethiopia State of Emergency Affecting Work of US Embassy

By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban, The United States embassy in Addis Ababa has disclosed that the October 9 state of emergency currently in force in Ethiopia severely affects their ability to assist US citizens. One of the restrictions under the curfew is that diplomats “for their own safety” were to avoid traveling 40 kilometers outside […]

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Ethiopian Authorities Release Details of State of Emergency Decree

By ESAT News, One week after declaring a six-month state of emergency, Ethiopian authorities released details of the law on Saturday prohibiting exchange of electronic messages and banning public gatherings and demonstrations among others. The state run media outlets on Saturday published details of the law as presented by the head of the command post […]

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