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US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ethiopia is a federal republic. On August 20, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died. The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary…

US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Kenya

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kenya is a republic with an institutionally strong president and a prime minister with unclearly defined executive powers.…

US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Eritrea

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The government of the State of Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime under the control of President…

EPRDF’s leadership structure and election | Metekakat review

The Metekakat plan - officially adopted in June 2009 by the ruling party, EPRDF - is meant to transfer power to a…

EPRDF Congress| Undermined by fuzzy Metekakat plan

The Late Prime Minster Meles Zenawi was both present and absent at the two-yearly Congress of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary…

Somaliland’s long wait for int’l recognition

[Originally published on Somaliland Press.] Since its secession from the rest of Somalia in 1991, successive Somaliland governments have worked…

Reality check | The Ethiopian Flag qua Politics

Ethiopians are celebrating the National flag day for the fourth time today. The previous three took place on July 5/’08…

Text of Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law [Proc. No. 652/2009]

PROCLAMATION NO. 652/2009 A PROCLAMATION ON ANTI-TERRORISM WHEREAS, the right of the people to live in peace, freedom and security…

Wikileaks: Pastor Daniel: ‘Police tortures detainees’ [full text]

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa of April 2007, classified as ‘Secret’, presents a meeting with a respected…

Reality-check: Tigray annexed Amhara lands?

You must have heard the allegation that 'Tigray annexed Amhara lands'. That is mainly in reference to the four Woredas(districts) that…

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