European Commission to Ethiopia: ‘Start Addressing Legitimate Grievances of the People’

By Monica Donimirska, The European Commission issued a stinging rebuke to one of its lead partners on the African continent today, telling the Ethiopian government to “start addressing the legitimate grievances of the Ethiopian people”. The warning came after the arrest of an Ethiopian opposition leader following his return from Europe where he had spoken […]

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State Security Terrorizing Ethiopia’s Largest Ethnic Group – the Oromo

By AFP, Fear is so pervasive in Ethiopia’s largest region Oromia, where the government is accused of killing scores in a crackdown, that people don’t even like to give their names. Oromia, which surrounds the capital Addis Ababa, is dotted with machine-gun mounted vehicles and Ethiopian soldiers who locals say have disrupted daily life with […]

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EU Parliament called for International Cooperation to Fight Human Trafficking

By TesfaNews, The European Parliament today passed a resolution calling for coordinated regional action to tackle human trafficking in Sinai. Parliament states its “deep concern” regarding the reported cases of human trafficking in Sinai and “condemns the terrible abuses to which the victims are subjected”. 

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