Month: February 2018
- Africa
Breaking: Ethiopia pm Hailemariam Desalegn resigns
Addis Abeba, February 15/2018 – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said he has submitted a letter requesting to resign from his role as Prime Minister and Chairman of Ethiopia’s ruling party EPRDF. In a televised address to the nation this afternoon, PM Hailemariam said he decided to resign from his post in order to help facilitate the ruling…
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Breaking: Amidst crippling region-wide strike in Oromia, Ethiopia freed seven prisoners including Bekele Gerba and Gurmesa Ayano
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, February 13/2018 – A day after the Ethiopia’s attorney general said it would discontinue terrorism and criminal charges against seven high profile opposition party leaders and members from the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), and on the second day of a region wide strike called by online activists to demand the release, all seven of them…
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News: At least four people killed, several injured when security forces open fire at IDP camp in eastern Ethiopia; stay at home boycott happening in various cities in Oromia
Liyat Fekade & Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, February 12/2018 – At least four people, including one member of the Oromia police force, were killed and eleven others were injured on Sunday February 11 after federal security forces opened fire at a camp sheltering thousands of civilians in Hamaressa, a small town near the city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia,…
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Special Edition: How the “Special Interest” of Oromia over Addis Abeba became a vacuous exercise in legal rhetoric. What is Next?
Click here to download this Special Edition (11 pages) The “Special Interest” of Oromia over Addis Abeba Hollow Constitutional Promise, an empty legal rhetoric: The Draft Law on the interest that is not so special By Tsegaye R. Ararssa This week, the government is seeking to force “public consultation” over the “Constitutional Special Interest” of Oromia over Addis Abeba. It…
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News: Addis Abeba mayor appoints first chief resilience officer, approves establishment of city’s resilience office
Fitsumbrhan Tsegaye Beyene 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation – is Dedicated to Building Resilience in Cities around the World – Addis Abeba is a Founding Member of $164M Effort Addis Abeba, February 08/2018 – Addis Abeba’s mayor Deriba Kuma has appointed Fitsumbrhan Tsegaye Beyene as Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), a new position created to lead…
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News: There has always been go-betweens between us and the OPDO- Leenco Lata
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, February 07/2018 – Following a statement released yesterday by the OPDO, member of Ethiopia’s ruling party, EPRDF, pledging to work with opposition parties including those outside of the country, Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) has released a statement welcoming the move and expressing its own readiness to work with OPDO. In addition, Leenco Lata, president of…
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Commentary: OPDO’s silence on Bekele Gerba, others still in jail, detrimental to its reformist image
By: Awol Allo, Hassan Hussein, Mohammed Ademo and Tsedale Lemma Addis Abeba, February 07/2018 — Ethiopia’s much-touted pledge to release political prisoners in order to foster national consensus and widen the democratic space turned out to be much ado about nothing. Thirty-five days after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced plans to free some imprisoned political leaders and individuals only one…
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News: Federal court hands six more months in contempt of court against high profile opposition party defendants
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, February 05/2018 – The federal high court fourth criminal bench has today sentenced four defendants in the file name of Gurmesa Ayano et.al to six more months in jail in “contempt of court”. This is the second time the court has handed a six month sentencing against the four defendants: Gurmesa Ayano, Gurmesa Ayano, Dejene Taffa,…
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News: AHRE new report on Ethiopia sheds light on shrinking civic space in authoritarian state
Addis Abeba, February 02/2018 – The Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE) launched its new report on Ethiopia, titled: “Ailing Civic Space in an Authoritarian State: The State of Human Rights Defenders and Cost of Dissent in Ethiopia”. The report highlighted details regarding the ever shrinking civic space in Ethiopia while reviewing human rights situation in Ethiopia and…
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News: Adama Science and Technology Univ. discharges director of gender affairs who was investigating female students physical and sexual assault by army members
A source who provided Addis Standard with the letters from the university and is familiar with the matter says the university’s attempt to address the issue has faced “several restrictions” including a “verbal threat to shut down the investigation” from a member of senior military officer who is sitting in the board of directors of the university Liyat Fekade Addis…
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