Gafif Deebi VOA Amharic Jaal Qaasim Abbaa Nashaa fi Dr Bayaan Asoba
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Ethiopia is Africa’s only big country with a non-presidential parliamentary system; sadly, it has lapsed into harsh authoritarian rule under Meles Zenawi ...More...
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Meles uses brute force at home and a massive PR machine abroad to crowd out the opposition and to hide his evil empire. Until their fall many evil geniuses like Ivan the Terrible, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Leopold II of Belgium exhibited similar behavior ...More...
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Human Rights Watch raised allegations of the political manipulation of development and humanitarian aid with British officials in Ethiopia in October 2009. Our report “Development Without Freedom: How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia,” published in October 2010, detailed political manipulation by Ethiopian authorities affecting nearly all elements of donor assistance to Ethiopia, including ...More...
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Addis Ababa sentenced 14 suspected OLF members to lengthy jail terms after a foiled attack on an African Union summit in January and a United Nations monitoring group report pointed the finger at neighbouring Eritrea for the plot. ...More...
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And certainly we’ve got reports that people have been arrested, some people have been questioned by security forces and some people have left the area in fear of what would follow.’ ...More...
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Over two years ago, the Africa Bureau, working with Norway, engaged moderate elements of the OLF and encouraged Prime Minister Meles and his envoy, Ambassador Berhane, to take a more positive approach to OLF-Ethiopia Government discussions. ...More...
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Obbo Amin Jundi, OLF’s Secretary General, discusses about the OLF and the OLF-led Oromo people’s struggle, about alliance, and about Ethiopia’s past mistakes and future opportunities. ...More...
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These included Bekele Gerba, a teacher at Addis Ababa University and deputy chairman of the Oromo Federal Democratic Movement, and Olbana Lelisa, an official with the Oromo People’s Congress party. Both men had met with Amnesty International delegates just days before their arrests ...More...
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When outsiders do bring up such issues, Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister, responds tartly that, with famine again stalking the Horn of Africa, the right of people to food, shelter, a job and indeed to life itself depends on the stability of the state. To challenge this is sabotage. ...More...
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“The people are fed up because of the social, economic and political situation and the people follow also what is happening in North Africa and Arab countries ... and people are saying, ‘When is our turn? When shall we go to the streets?’” he said. “The attitude is so strong in the country, in the people, soon it will explode, and the government is afraid of that, and by arresting political party ...More...
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According to New index points to climate adaptation investments, Ethiopia is at the bottom of the lists ...More...
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Bekele Jirata, who led the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) until he was forced to flee Ethiopia, described his own experience as a political prisoner of the Ethiopian government. Along with at least 14 other OFDM members, Mr. Jirata was arrested in 2008 on false charges of supporting terrorism. During his detention he was tortured, and witnessed the use of torture against many of his f ...More...
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Two opposition leaders from the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement and the Oromo People's Congress were detained late last month on suspicion of OLF links. ...More...
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An embassy source, as well as clandestine reporting, suggests that the bombing may have in fact been the work of GoE security forces ...More...
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Opposition politicians and rights group Human Rights Watch have accused Ethiopia of cracking down on opposition campaigners from the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia’s biggest with 27 million people out of a population of 80 million. ...More...
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"If Bashir remains in power, either because no such coup attempt is made or an attempt fails, the indictment will leave the Bashir regime a wounded animal that is more desperate than ever," the cable quoted Zenawi as saying ...More...
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The Ethiopian government should immediately release two ethnic Oromo political opposition leaders detained on what appear to be politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Journalists told Human Rights Watch that as many as 20 other Oromos who were picked up in Addis Ababa and the Oromia region over the weekend are also being held. ...More...
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