Year: 2016
- Africa
Breaking News – Ethiopia court jailed journalist Getachew Worku for one year
Addis Abeba Nov 15, 2016 – The federal first instant court Arada branch has today jailed journalist Getachew Worku, editor-in-chief of the Amharic weekly independent Newspaper, Ethio-Mihidar, for one year. Getachew was taken into police custody last week on Nov. 4th after the same court found him guilty of ‘defaming’ senior clergy members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The court…
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News – Ethiopia charged 22 individuals with terrorism
Prosecutors say the 22 suspects were working for Kenya and Norway-based Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Addis Abeba Nov. 14, 2016 – Prosecutors have today charged 22 individuals at the Federal High Court, Fourth Criminal Bench with terrorism. Accordingly, prosecutors alleged that the 22 individuals under the file name of the first defendant Dereje Alemu Desta, are suspected of inciting violence…
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News: Inquiry board says 11, 607 people detained after Ethiopia declared State of Emergency
Addis Abeba Nov. 11/2016 – The Inquiry Board established to look into the conduct of Ethiopia’s six-month State of Emergency said today that 11, 607 were detained in the wake of nationwide anti-government protests. Of those 347 were females. The board also published several detention camps throughout the country where detains are being held. Accordingly, the inquiry board said detainees…
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News: Upon incomplete witnesses and absent defendants Ethiopia Federal Court adjourned case on Bekele Gerba, co-defendants until Tuesday
Addis Abeba Nov. 11/2016 – The Federal high Court 19th criminal bench has this morning adjourned the hearing involving prominent opposition figure Bekele Gerba and 21 co-defendants charged with him until Tuesday Nov. 15, 2016. The case is adjourned because prosecutors have failed to bring to the court their witnesses. In addition five of the 22 defendants were not brought…
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News: Ethiopian security re-arrest rights activist, zone9 blogger Befeqadu Hailu
Addis Abeba Nov. 11/2016 – Security member of the command post established to oversee Ethiopia’s six-month State of Emergency have this morning re-arrested human rights activist and blogger Befeqadu Hailu, Addis Standard confirmed. According to information, two security officers who have identified themselves as members of the command post have taken Befeqadu around 6:00 AM this morning. He is now…
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News: Japan provides a project to analyze pesticide residue in Coffee to Ethiopia
Addis Abeba Nov. 10, 2016 – The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) handed over Project for Strengthening of Agricultural Pesticide Residue Analysis System (SAPRAS) to Ethiopia. The project, which was handed over on Nov. 03, was implemented following Ethiopia’s request to the Government of Japan in 2008. SAPRAS was initiated after Japanese regulatory bodies found out that globally prohibited agricultural…
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News: Ethiopia lifts ban on diplomats’ travel imposed by State of Emergency
Authorities also lifted ban on illegal possessions of security outfits; revised conduct of search Nov. 08, 2016 – Addis Abeba – Ethiopia’s Defense Minister, Siraj Fegessa, told reporters today that the command post established to implement Ethiopia’s six-months State of Emergency, and is led by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, has fully lifted article 18 of the state of emergency which…
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Ethiopia battles wheat rust disease outbreak
Nov. 08, 2016 (ReliefWeb) – An outbreak of wheat rust disease in critical wheat-growing regions of Ethiopia is threatening recent crop production gains in parts of the country, following a long period of El-Niño-induced drought. In late August, survey teams first spotted the rust in Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regions. The crop-killing fungus has since spread…
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Addis Standard Special Edition on #IrreechaMassacre in pdf
special-edition-on-irreecha-oct-2016 Contents in this edition: P. 5 – #IrreechaMassacre: The day that changed the game (By Addis Standard staffs) “I saw people who had fallen inside ditches and deeper pits. I saw people who had no one to pick them up. I saw people suffocated by the smoke of the tear gas” P.8 – A survivor’s account (By Bekel…
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The big debate – Beyond assimilation and accommodation: The resurgence of Oromo nationalism
Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard Ethiopia’s political history of the last half-century has been the pregressive unfolding of the twinned ideas of “land to the tiller question” and the “national question.” Two ideological factions coalesced around the question of nationalities: the ethno-nationalists who favored self-determination and the Ethiopianists who advocated granting regional autonomy to regions where centrifugal tendencies were…
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