To stop Ethiopia from falling apart and to rescue the country from the undue weight of its own repression, the regime have no choice but to change course. BY MOHAMMED ADEMO and JEFFREY SMITH | FOREIGN POLICY For a brief moment last week, Ethiopia seemed poised to shed its reputation as Africa’s Stasi state. At […]
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By Sarah Saadoun | Huffington Post, In Ethiopia, the World Bank helps fund a program that provides food and cash to people who work on public infrastructure projects. It’s a popular program and many people need the work. But a poor farmer said that when he went to sign up for the program he was […]
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By Anita Powell (for VOA), ETHIOPIA will hold a major election Sunday, but critics of the longtime ruling party say systematic repression has made this vote a nonevent. Outside of the country, Ethiopians who say they are political refugees have even harsher words for the government. On the streets of Ethiopia’s capital, it’s hard to […]
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By Freedom House, ETHIOPIA continues to have one of the lowest rates of internet and mobile phone connectivity in the world, as meager infrastructure, government monopoly over the telecommunications sector, and obstructive telecom policies have significantly hindered the growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the country. Coupled with highly repressive laws and tactics […]
Continue ReadingBy Marthe van der Wolf, THIS month, Ethiopian officials shut down five magazines — the latest in a series of shutdowns — but the move got little attention from outside the country. The East African country is well known for suppressing the media, but some cases seem to get celebrity status while others are ignored. Twelve […]
Continue ReadingBy Abraha Belai, Amid a flurry of government propaganda to label the hijacker of an Ethiopian Airlines plane a mental patient, a family member of the co-pilot says her cousin was an activist who has been resentful of the brutal rule in Ethiopia. Speaking to the Ethiopian Satellite TV (ESAT) by phone on Wednesday, a […]
Continue ReadingEthiopia has a terrible Human Rights record – Why is the West still turning a blind eye? By Eleanor Ross, Some disappeared, others were given lengthy prison sentences. One thing all thirty men arrested in 2012 in Ethiopia had in common was that they had criticised the state and the policies of the former Premier, […]
Continue ReadingBy Graham Peebles, They speak of democracy, but act violently to suppress dissenting voices and control the people through the inculcation of fear: they ignore human rights and trample on the people, they are a tyrannical wolf in democratic sheep’s clothing, causing suffering and misery to thousands of people throughout Ethiopia. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary […]
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