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Ethiopia’s Regime Faces Precarious Times As Diaspora Plans for the Future
Ethiopia’s Simien National Park. Free to use image from Pixabay (Global Voices) — In November 2015, residents of a small town called Ginchi launched protests against a proposal by Ethiopia’s...
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Ethiopia: TPLF/EPRDF Crimes Against Humanity in Oromia Escalate After the...
HRLHA’s Appeal to the International Community October 30, 2016 Crimes against humanity in the Oromo nation have escalated after the State of Emergency was declared on October 8, 2016 by the TPLF. The...
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Can Poverty Lead To Mental Illness?
(NPR) — After a mother killed her four young children and then herself last month in rural China, onlookers quickly pointed to life circumstances. The family lived in extreme poverty, and bloggers...
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Ethiopia’s troop withdrawal from Somalia: UN worried over humanitarian crisis
(Geesguud) — The United Nations (UN) is deeply concerned about the continuous withdrawal of international troops from Somalia and the subsequent takeover of such ‘abandoned’ territories by al-shabaab...
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Democratizing Ethiopia is not a shift in paradigm but maintaining the...
By Danbale Part 1 This paper although emerged from my reflection at the London Oromo Conference (22-23 Oct 2016)it is not about appraising the conference but about the unspoken messages behind the...
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Former TPLF’s Cadres Cannot Spearhead the Sidama National Struggle for...
Press Release By Sidama National Liberation Front (SNLF) 30 October 2016 Ever since the Sidama nation was forcefully annexed into the Ethiopian empire by the invading army of King Minelik II 125 years...
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Ethiopia’s crisis is a result of decades of land disputes and ethnic power...
Bracing for the future. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri) (QZ) — When anti-government protests rocked Gondar city in northern Ethiopia in July, ethnic Tigrayans living in the Amhara region started fleeing. For a...
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Unity yet, now talk of nations
(Reinvent Ethiopia) — Everyone is scrambling to form an ”alliance” these days. Thing is- it must be a deja-vu for some of them. The Oromo movement has made everyone itching and nervous. Some want to...
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The Pseudo-Unity Promoters of Habesha based Colonial Forces’ Trickery Politics
By Falmataa Sabaa (PhD)* We often hear loud voice of unity, democracy and freedom even from Habesha colonial forces of Ethiopian empire regimes. The regimes’ media (the state TV, radio and news...
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Press Release on the outcome of IOLA organized Oromo Conference for National...
International Oromo Lawyers Association – IOLA – organized in London, UK, a two day “Oromo Conference for National Consensus” from 22 – 23 October 2016 in which all Oromo political organizations,...
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Legal Analysis of Ethiopia’s State of Emergency
Summary (HRW) — On October 9, 2016, the Ethiopian government announced a country-wide six-month state of emergency. This followed a year of widespread protests against government policies that state...
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Ethiopia ‘Releases 2,000 Detainees’ Held Under State of Emergency
The state of emergency is meant to crack down on anti-government rhetoric. BY CONOR GAFFEY ON 10/31/16 Human Rights Watch Report On Violence In Ethiopa (News Week) — Ethiopia has released around 2,000...
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Without Reform Ethiopia Risks a Deepening Crisis
By Agence France Press, Adddis Ababa Children explore the remains of a cargo truck in Sebeta, central Ethiopia on October 13, 2016 after protesters took to the street to vandalise property thought to...
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Ethiopia’s state of emergency silences aid workers — and some of their work
By Andrew Green Photo by: John Iglar / CC BY-SA (Devex) — The Ethiopian government’s recently imposed state of emergency, which followed months of clashes between political protesters and security...
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Ethiopia state of emergency rules largely flouts international law – HRW
Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban with HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (Africa News) — The state of emergency imposed by the Ethiopian government has measures that are in clear breach of international law, according to a...
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Ethiopia’s state of emergency: both sides are determined to fight to the finish
Demonstrators chant slogans while flashing the Oromo protest gesture during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people, in Bishoftu town, Oromia region, Ethiopia, October 2, 2016....
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Protesters on Parliament Hill today held a rally to support the Oromo people...
Protesters on Parliament Hill today held a rally to support the Oromo people of Ethiopia Speaking with one of the participants – who was nearly deported to Ethiopia himself ten years ago. R.I.P
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Ethiopia’s political crisis: Norway worried, calls for participatory politics
(Africa News) — Norway says it is concerned about the restive situation in the horn of Africa region in general but more so about Ethiopia. A “partner” suffering from political unrest resulting in a...
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ODF’s proposal is a document prepared to please the donor class than to...
By Abbaa Ormaa ODF President, Ato Lecho Leta, speaks at the marriage ceremony between ODF and Ginbot 7 on October 30, 2016 in Washington, DC. ODF’s proposal titled, “Our Common Future: A Proposal....
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