Ethiopian Regime Struggles to Quell Growing Unrest

‘A hungry nation can eat its leaders and we have too many hungry mouths, too many hungry young people, and too many angry young people’ – Merara Gudina BY JOHN AGLIONBY | FINANCIAL TIMES Eleven days after Ethiopian opposition leader Merera Gudina was released following two years in prison, he used a political rally to ramp up […]

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U.S. Concerned Ethiopian Gov’t Using Martial Law to Silence Dissent

The U.S. also urges the Govt to restore access to the Internet for all its citizens ASAP. By ESAT News, The United States says the Ethiopian regime is using the martial law it declared in October to silence dissent. Deputy spokesperson for the US Department of State Mark Toner said on Thursday that the arrest […]

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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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European Union MP, Amnesty International Denounce Arrest of Merara Gudina

By making peaceful and democratic change impossible, the Ethiopian regime makes violent revolution almost inevitable. By ESAT News, A member of the European Union Parliament and Amnesty International today denounced the arrest on Wednesday of Dr. Merara Gudina, an opposition political figure. Dr. Gudina was jailed upon his return from Europe, where he testified at […]

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Opposition Denies Eritrean Role in Ethiopian Oromo Protests

By Addis Getachew | for Anadolu Agency, A prominent Ethiopian opposition figure has denied government claims of Eritrean involvement in unrest in an area around capital Addis Ababa earmarked for urban development. “Eritrea has become a mantra the government is quick to cite wherever its moves are met with opposition,” Merera Gudina, leader of the […]

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Ethiopia: Oromo Protests Set to Continue

By Deutsche Welle (DW), In an interview with DW, a spokesman of the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum accused the government of abusing the country’s constitution with its plans to expand the capital Addis Ababa. Violence and chaos gripped Ethiopia this week as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in protest against government plans […]

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