Year: 2018
- Africa
News: Security forces open fire at festival goers in Weldiya, Amhara regional state, killing at least five
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, January 21/2018 – “At least five people were killed” yesterday and several others wounded when security forces opened fire at festival goers in Weldiya, some 510 km north of the capital Addis Ababa, in Amhara regional state, according to Alemayehu Yemiru, a resident of the town; but Alemayehu said he believes the number of causalities…
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News: Government allocates more than $7m. to build the Adwa Pan-African University
Samuel Bogale Addis Abeba, January 15/2018 – Following initiatives taken by a few individuals two years ago to build a study center in Adwa town, some 982* km north of the capital Addis Abeba, in Tigray regional state, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has today said his government was committed to build the Adwa Pan-African University. He also urged the…
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Opinion: EPRDF does not represent all and speak for all Ethiopians and it is not accidental
Mohamed Olad, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, January 12/2018 – Though Ethiopia’s ruling coalition EPRDF’s latest efforts to expand the current political space can be seen as commendable, as the largest political Front in the nation, it failed to represent all Ethiopian Nations, Nationalities and Peoples while it confined itself to only four regional states that it deemed are worthy of…
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Opinion: ‘Peace’ of the tormentor and resistance toward freedom
Alem Mamo, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, January 11/2018 – Fostering peace is much more abstruse than waging war or employing violence to address social woes. The multi-dimensional disposition of peace necessitates a wide-ranging approach that addresses all the underlying and deep-rooted factors interposed to the absence of peace in the first place. ‘Positive peace’ is not merely the…
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News: Federal high court reverses decision to summon gov. officials as defense witnesses, angering defendants; sentences seven on contempt of court
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, January 11/2018 – The Federal High Court 4th criminal bench has today dismissed its own decision to summon high level government officials as defense witnesses in the case involving senior opposition party officials from the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC). In its ruling on August 18th, the court issued a letter to summon the high level…
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Opinion – The Lemma Megerssa Moment and the Oromo Dilemma: Between resistance and governing
Tsegaye R Ararssa, for Addis Standard Introduction Addis Abeba, Janurary 10/2018 – One of the most emphatic achievements of the #OromoProtests is Lemma Megerssa himself. The Lemma Megerssa moment is produced by the resurgent Oromo resistance that was rekindled in 2014 and persisted to date. Having produced the Lemma Megerssa moment as its overall effect, the Oromo protest has…
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News: Ethiopian national security council reflects on yet another daunting security assessment
Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba, January 08/2018 – In another meeting attended by members of Ethiopia’s Security Council, participants at a day long meeting on Friday January 05 have reflected on yet another daunting security assessment compiled from various parts of the country since the council’s first meeting was held, during which an alarming security assessment document was presented. The…
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News: Autopsy of Ayele Beyene says he died of ‘natural cause’; contradicts co-defendants who say he died of ‘torture, neglect in prison’
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, January 05/2018 – The autopsy of Ayele Beyene, 29, who died in the last week of July 2017 while he was imprisoned at Qilinto prison, a maximum prison facility on the southern outskirt of Addis Abeba, has declared the cause of his death as “natural.” Under the “Opinion as to the cause of death” page…
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Breaking: Ethiopia to close down notorious prison, to release all political prisoners
Addis Abeba, January 03/2018 – At a joint press briefing given by the four chairpersons of EPRDF’s member parties, PM Hailemariam Desalegn, who is the chairperson of SEPDM, said his government will close down the notorious prison ward (and a torture chamber by all accounts) called Mae’kelawi. The Prime Minister said Mae’kelawi will be turned into a “modern museum”.…
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News: Two benches at federal high court jail nineteen Ethiopians accused of having links with PG7 to lengthy terms
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, January 02/2018 – The federal high court 19th and 4th criminal benches here in the capital Addis Abeba have today sentenced a total of nineteen Ethiopians who were accused of terrorism related offenses to jail terms ranging from three years and ten months to 16 years and six months. All the nineteen defendants were accused…
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