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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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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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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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What you need to know about the situation in Ethiopia
(The Daily Vox) — Since October 6th, Ethiopia has been in a nationwide state of emergency. To help understand the situation, the Daily Vox spoke to members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front...
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Ethiopia’s cabinet reshuffle may be too little, too late to quell protests
(OPride) — Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Tuesday announced a compelled cabinet reshuffle in an effort to contain sustained and stubborn anti-government protests. The changes follow...
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Focus on Africa: interviews
“A terrorist regime has taken my country hostage” In June, Denebo’s father went missing for two weeks. He’d been abducted and taken to a high-security prison that’s infamous for torture. He believes...
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Investors shy away from Ethiopia in the wake of violent protests
By Paul Schemm November 2 at 3:00 AM Workers tend flowers at Maranque Plants, a Dutch flower farm near the Ethiopian village of Alaga Dore that was the only operation in the area to remain untouched...
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Ethiopia renews accusations that Egypt supported Oromo unrest
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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Ethiopia on the brink? Politics and protest in the horn of Africa
Ethiopia is 12 months in to a political crisis which has seen at least 1,000 people killed. But unless the government introduces significant reforms, it will get worse, says Andrea Carboni. (Relief...
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Ethiopia Unrest Worries Foreign Investors
By Marthe van der Wolf FILE – Demonstrators chant slogans and flash the Oromo protest gesture during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people, in Bishoftu town, Oromia region, Ethiopia....
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