Month: November 2016
- Africa
Analysis – Why Ethiopia’s freewheeling regime does need a State of Emergency?
Zelalem Kibret, For Addis Standard Online On October 08, 2016 Ethiopia declared a State of Emergency in which more than half of the constitutionally guaranteed rights were more or less suspended. Ethiopia’s declaration of a State of Emergency (SoE) may shock some in the west. Because, the Ethiopia many portrayed is ‘the oasis of tranquility’, ‘the island of stability’…
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News: Battered by persistent public protests, Ethiopia forms new government
Nov. 01, 2016, Addis Abeba – Forced by persistence public protests, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has today dismantled the previous government and formed a formed a new one by announcing a major reshuffle of his cabinet ministers only a year after they were sworn in. Accordingly, the House of People’s Representatives (HPR), whose 547 seats are entirely controlled by…
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