Ethiopia: Future of Last Remaining Human Rights Monitoring NGO in the Balance

[HRW] On February 3, 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia will hear a petition by the Human Rights Council (HRCO), Ethiopia's oldest human rights organization, to admit an appeal against the freezing of its bank accounts. Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, CIVICUS, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and Human Rights Watch express deep concern at ...

Ethiopia: Journalists, politicians get jail time

An Ethiopian judge on Thursday handed down prison sentences ranging from 14 years to life to three journalists and two politicians.The five were arrested last year and charged last week under Ethiopia's ...

Ethiopia slaps prison terms on three journalists

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia sentenced two Ethiopian journalists to 14 years in jail and an exiled blogger to life imprisonment on Thursday on charges of conspiring with rebel groups against the government, the second case in a month targeting the media. In December, two Swedish journalists were sentenced to 11 years in jail for entering the country illegally and aiding a rebel group ...

Reporters’ Trial in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian government responds to a column by Nicholas D. Kristof about the arrest and conviction of two Swedish journalists.

Ethiopia seeks investments from India

Business Line Seeking support: Ms Gennet Zewide, Ambassador, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is greeted by Mr Manikam Ramaswami, CMD, Loyal Textiles Mills and Honorary Consul of Ethiopia in Chennai, as the Chennai Mayor, Mr Saidai S. Duraisamy, looks on at a function to mark the opening of the honorary consulate, in Chennai on Monday.

Ethiopia Uses Anti-Terror Laws to Terrorize Dissent

Critics call recent charges on journalists trumped up and accuse Ethiopia of using so-called anti-terrorism laws as a tool of oppression.

Ethiopia seeks India's financial muscle for its rail project

Ethiopia wants $300 million more from India for an ambitious railway project that would connect it with neighbouring Djibouti.

ETBU students take mission trip to Ethiopia

“Eye opening,” is the sentiment of 12 East Texas Baptist University students who experienced a 10-day mission trip to Ethiopia during the Christmas break.

Ethiopia: Resettlement Debate Highlights Rights Problem

African Arguments (London)-Human Rights Watch released its latest highly critical report on Ethiopia last week, claiming abuse and coercion in a resettlement program. While Ethiopia's government detests the interventions of foreign rights groups, a restrictive law means there are virtually no domestic monitors of abuses.

Visiting Ethiopia's khat boomtown

The Ethiopian town that is the khat capital of the world