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HRW reports on rights abuses in Sudan’s Blue Nile
Human Rights Watch For Immediate Release *** Video available at: http://youtu.be/BDV59hlFHHI *** Footage available for download at: http://hrwnews.org/distribute/2012A… Sudan: Blue Nile Civilians Describe Attacks, Abuses Reports of Indiscriminate Bombings, Killings, Detentions Should be Investigated (Juba, April 23, 2012) – Civilians
International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes Condemn Imprisonment …
Vienna — Twenty international journalists who have been recognised as World Press Freedom Heroes by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) have condemned the Ethiopian government’s decision to jail Eskinder Nega and other journalists on terrorism charges, and called for
Disempowerment and Suppression of Freedoms in Ethiopia – Salem
Apr-23-2012 23:00 Graham Peebles Special to Salem-News.com Meles’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), is in fact a dictatorship masquerading under the guise of a democracy. (LONDON) – The increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister
Sudan: Blue Nile Civilians Describe Attacks, Abuses – Reports of …
Juba — Civilians are bearing the brunt of abuses in Sudan’s simmering border conflict in Blue Nile state, Human Rights Watch said today, based on a research trip in April 2012 into Blue Nile. As in neighboring Southern Kordofan, which
Ethiopia: The Dictator’s Doublespeak; Lies, Lies, and more Lies!
Ethiopia: The Dictator’s Doublespeak; Lies, Lies, and more Lies! By Tibebe Samuel Ferenji In 1995, I had the honor and immense pleasure of interviewing Professor Mesfin Woldemariam when I was working with “Hibret Radio”. During that interview, he told me
Siegfried Pausewang dies at 75 – Gadaa.com Oduu
Condolences from Gadaa.com to Dr. Siegfried Pausewang’s family and friends. Dr. Siegfried Pausewang came to the collective Oromo consciousness in 1992, following botched local and regional elections. The Norwegian election observatory group, in which Dr. Pausewang had a prominent role,
“Land Grabbing” in Ethiopia: Soldiers Poisoning Water Sources, Forcing …
April 18, 2012 (CAMBRIDGE, MA) – On-the-ground reports from Ethiopia reveal the government is stepping up its violence against Indigenous Anuak people. In the past week, sources say the military has attacked civilians in the Gambella region and poisoned water
Rights group: Kenya police executed terror suspect
NAIROBI, Kenya – Armed men pulled two passengers off a bus on the Kenyan coast earlier this month. The body of one man was found two days later with his eyes gorged out, nose chopped off and genitals missing, and
Media Control In Ethiopia
Media Control In Ethiopia By Graham Peebles 19 April, 2012 Countercurrents.org Democracy Denied Democracy sits firmly upon principles of freedom,justice, social inclusion and participation in civil society.Where these qualities of fairness are absent so too is democracy, for the word
Domestic workers get repatriation aid
Labour chiefs from Bahrain and across the region have agreed to fast-track repatriation of migrant workers, particularly women, at times of security crisis at a major forum in Manila, the Philippines. They also agreed to assign government teams to closely
