By ESAT, AN INVOICE that was made public on the Internet by hackers depicted that the Ethiopian government paid US $ 1 million to an Italian company, Hacking Team, for its provision of professional services and communication equipment to target specific groups and spy on citizens.
Continue Reading“These arrests appear to be yet another alarming round up of opposition or independent voices” – Claire Beston, Amnesty International By Aljazeera, THE Ethiopian government has arrested six independent bloggers and a journalist in what human rights group Amnesty International has called a “suffocating grip on freedom of expression“. Six members of independent blogger and activist group […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C. Mountain, While Liberia could afford an election in which the President Ellen Johnson ran unopposed, the people of the country have neither electricity or running water. Long the golden girl of the western banktatorships Ellen Johnson spent the year before her election in 2006 campaigning in Liberia while drawing a healthy salary […]
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