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Deaths of land rights defenders treble in a year as violence surges
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Athlete Feyisa Lilesa listed in FP’s 2016 Top 100 global thinkers
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Gada: Do Oromo Have A Better Alternative For Modern Democracy?
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Higher Education and Ethiopia’s State of Emergency
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STN Kenya: Fascinating discussion (in Afaan Oromo) about Gadaa system
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Human Rights Groups: Ethiopia Blocks Social Media, News Sites
Human Rights Groups: Ethiopia Blocks Social Media, News Sites By ELIAS MESERET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (ABC News) — Ethiopia’s government illegally blocked social media and news websites during the...
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Ethiopia: Key person, for inscribing Gada in UNESCO is arrested
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EU parliament writes to Ethiopian president over detained Oromo leader
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FIRST PERSON: Wario Denebo, an asylum seeker living in Newport
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U.S. and Ethiopia Hold 7th Democracy, Governance and Human Rights
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Ethiopia: Lawyer for Opposition leader, Dr. Merara Gudina, Arrested
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Swedish rights activist Melody’s message to the Ethiopian government
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NOS 1st International Conference London 17 – 18 December 2016
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Entertaining Petty Differences is Equating to Ideological Fornication
Entertaining Petty Differences Whilst People Are Dying Is Treachery Equating to an Ideological Fornication! December 18, 2016, By Denboba Natie Agreeing to disagree is a democratic principle whose...
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Colonial Trauma, Community Resiliency and Community Health Development
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ONLF: Heavy fighting reported in Ogaden – ONA news
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The Year in Human Rights Videos – Oromo Protesters at the top
The Year in Human Rights Videos – Oromo Peaceful Protesters at the top Amy Braunschweiger Senior Web Communications Manager (HRW) — The gunning down of peaceful protesters in Ethiopia. Animations...
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Ethiopia ‘to free nearly 10,000 detainees’– Most of them are Oromo
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Stop Your madness with Master Plan and Resolve the Master Problem
Stop Your madness with Master Plan and Resolve the Master Problem FB: Jawar Mohammed The TPLF state media has announced Addis Ababa Master Plan will be implemented soon. I have seen documents...
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ARDUF: TPLF’s Survival Depends on Its Never-Ending Ploys
ARDUF PRESS RELEASE – TPLF’S SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON ITS NEVER-ENDING PLOYS The brutal minority regime of Tigray People’s Liberation Front’s (TPLF) retaliations to the yearlong protests in the Oromia,...
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