BY DAWIT ENDESHAW | ETHIOPIA REPORTER
Following the increasing number of criminal activities in Addis Ababa targeting its staff members, the African Union (AU) issued a security alert notice telling its employees to take extra precautions, The Reporter has learnt. Continue reading AU Issues Security Alert to Employees in Ethiopia
By CCTV Africa,
ERITREA’S Government has dismissed a United Nations report, claiming systematic and wide spread violation of human rights, as politically-motivated, wild accusations. Continue reading UN Report is Sickening and Disgusting: Ambassador Beyene
By Ahmed Abdi,
THE Eritrean EPLF and the Ethiopian government agreed to enter into negotiations mediated by former United States president Jimmy Carter in mid-1989 after Colonel Mengistu succeeded in thwarting a coup attempt.
The two sides agreed to hold another round of peace talks in Nairobi , Kenya , on November 20, 1989 after a round of preliminary negotiations that opened on September 7, 1989 at the Carter Presidential Center at Emory University in Atlanta , Georgia .
Those talks failed to produce a peace agreement. Subsequent meetings in Washington chaired by United States assistant secretary of state for African affairs Herman Cohen also accomplished little. Continue reading What Can be Expected of Any ONLF – Ethiopia Peace Talk?
AFTER 13 months of fighting and six failed ceasefires, diplomats say the latest peace proposal to end the war in South Sudan will, well, return to the status quo that precipitated the carnage in the first place, AFP reported.
The latest peace proposal drafted in Addis Ababa by regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) leaves the reputedly whisky-loving Salva Kiir as president and re-installs flamboyant and fickle rebel leader Riek Machar as his deputy. Continue reading Bribing Kiir and Machar to Misrule South Sudan
By Reuters,
AN ASYLUM seeker from Eritrea was arrested on Thursday and faces charges of killing a 20-year-old compatriot in Dresden, an eastern German city that has become a center of protests against Islam and refugees.
State prosecutor Jan Hille told Reuters that the man had admitted attacking the victim during a dispute over the room they were sharing in a refugee shelter. Continue reading Eritrean Refugee Arrested Over the Murder of Khalid Idris Bahray in Germany
By Abraha Belai,
AT LEAST three people were confirmed killed and seven others wounded on Friday (19) after police opened fire to disperse protesters who were heading into the city center to defend a sacred site against government-sponsored demolition.
The protest in the restive capital of Amhara region erupted after the government moved to take over a church-owned holy site where annual ceremonies like Epiphany and Maskal (the founding of the True Cross) are held. Continue reading 3 Killed, Scores Wounded in Protest Across Bahir Dar
By Abraha Belai,
THIS is a very sad story that should move Ethiopian Americans into Action to stop an ongoing crime against innocent Ethiopian children in the name adoption.
American Journalist Don Rather has produced a documentary – “Unwanted in America” – which highlights how 9 out of the 30 children adopted from Ethiopia ended up homeless in the streets of Seattle. Continue reading Adopted Ethiopian Children, Homeless in Seattle (Video)
THOUSANDS of members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, are being ruthlessly targeted by the state based solely on their perceived opposition to the government, said Amnesty International in a new report released today.
“Because I am Oromo” – Sweeping repression in the Oromia region of Ethiopia exposes how Oromos have been regularly subjected to arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention without charge, enforced disappearance, repeated torture and unlawful state killings as part of the government’s incessant attempts to crush dissent. Continue reading Ethnic Oromos Arrested, Tortured and Killed by the Regime in Relentless Repression of Dissent
