Ethiopia needs to do better

That's the message for Ethiopia

Copyright 2014: Houston Chronicle

July 28, 2014 | Updated: July 28, 2014 10:25pm

As they ready for two days of wheeling and dealing with a high-ranking Ethiopian delegation at a local hotel, Houston business and elected leaders today need to look beyond a foreign market opportunity and first ask hard questions about Ethiopia's recent crackdown on nine journalists, as well as the country's unsuccessful move this spring to make homosexuality a "non-pardonable" crime...read more..............

Rohrabacher: Ethiopia Must Release Opposition Leader

Jul 28, 2014

Press Release

WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on Monday urged Ethiopia’s prime minister to release Andargachew Tsige, a native-born opposition leader with British citizenship who last month was extradicted to the African nation from Yemen under questionable circumstances.....read more....

Detention of bloggers is a violation of international law

Forty organisations have called on Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to free Zone 9 bloggers and revise it's overly broad anti-terror law..........read more.............

David Cameron will LOSE election blasts Ken Clarke after Tory spin doctors 'attempted to silence him '

David Cameron is on course to lose the next election, says Ken Clarke.
The veteran Tory revealed how spin doctors attempted to silence him, voiced concerns over the economy and revealed Margaret Thatcher wanted to scrap the NHS.
The extraordinary parting shot came after the Tory grandee was dumped in last week’s ministerial reshuffle .read more...

As Ethiopia's 'Zone 9' bloggers get popular, they get charged with terror (+video)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Ethiopia has charged 10 reform-minded bloggers and journalists with terrorism offenses – marking the latest in a long line of repressive acts against civil society by a key US partner in the Horn of Africa............read more.............

Aid to Africa: donations from west mask '$60bn looting' of continent (The guardian UK)

Aid to Africa: donations from west mask '$60bn looting' of continent

Parched soil in the Greater Upper Nile, South Sudan. Climate change mitigation has been used as a smokescreen to drain Africa's resources, say NGOs. Photograph: PA

Western countries are using aid to Africa as a smokescreen to hide the "sustained looting" of the continent as it loses nearly $60bn a year through tax evasion, climate change mitigation, and the flight of profits earned by foreign multinational companies, a group of NGOs has claimed....read more...

Is the Arrest of Andargachew Tsige the Final Straw for the People of Ethiopia?

by Graham Peebles / July 10th, 2014

Faced with a brutal repressive regime, the people of Ethiopia inside the country and within the worldwide diaspora –frustrated, angry and desperate – are considering alloptions to elicit fundamental change in the country........read more...

Snatched: Justice and Politics in Ethiopia (The Economist)

ANDARGACHEW TSIGE, an exiled Ethiopian opposition leader with British nationality, could be facing the death penalty after apparently being arrested and sent back to his country of origin while on a trip to the Gulf. While transiting in Yemen on June 23rd, during a journey from Dubai to Eritrea, Andargachew mysteriously ended up on a plane to Ethiopia. It is believed that he was detained by Yemeni officials and handed over to members of Ethiopia's security apparatus....read more..

'Britain is supporting a dictatorship in Ethiopia' (The Guadian UK)

It's 30 years since Ethiopia's famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes......read more.....

Ethiopian Muslims stage anti-government protes (AFP)

Hundreds of Muslims protesters demonstrated in Ethiopia on Friday, demanding the release of 17 of their leaders jailed under terrorism charges last year.

"What the government is doing doesn't solve the problem, rather it will worsen the situation," said protestor Mohammed Seman, speaking at the demonstration following busy Friday prayers at a popular Addis Ababa mosque.

The leaders were arrested last August, following months of protests by Muslims accusing the government of interfering in religious affairs. They are currently on trial for intending to "carry out acts of terrorism".........read more.............

Ethiopia : a leadership in disarray

It may be that, in Ethiopia, history is so powerful that the past permeates the present, and it repeats itself. In this case, what we see today is simply another interregnum between two powerful men....read more...

British government statement on extradition of Ethiopian leader, Andargachew Tsege

This statement was issued today by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
On the case
“A British national, Andargachew Tsege, was reported missing in Yemen on 24 June. Since then UK officials have pressed the Yemeni authorities at senior levels to establish his whereabouts, including meeting with the Yemeni Ambassador in London this week. We are aware of reports that he may now be in Ethiopia and we are urgently seeking confirmation from the relevant authorities given our deep concerns about the case. We are continuing to provide consular assistance to his family.....read more....

Ethiopia Ginbot 7 leader facing death penalty 'extradited from Yemen'

Andargachew Tsege, who is also a British national, is secretary-general of the banned Ginbot 7 movement....read more...

UK stands accused over extradition of Ethiopian opposition leader

Andargachew Tsige, a British national, may face death penalty after extradition from Yemen...read more..