Call for Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Ethiopia

By Sophia Tesfamariam, As an Eritrean American who has closely followed developments in the Horn region and knows a little bit about the political machinations involved, I was sorry to see Navi Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights succumbing to US pressure by singling out Eritrea for rebuke when she knows full […]

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Ethiopia Mourns – But Mourns What, Exactly?

By Simon Allison | for Daily Maverick, The government death toll from the Bishoftu disaster stands at 52. This is an extraordinary number. Even taken at face value, this makes the deadly stampede one of modern Ethiopia’s bloodiest episodes. But we can’t take anything at face value. This is a country where information is tightly […]

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