US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ethiopia is a federal republic. On August 20, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died..

US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Kenya

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kenya is a republic with an institutionally strong president and a prime minister.

US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Eritrea

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The government of the State of Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime.

March 2013 - Congress of the Ethiopian ruling party EPRDF - Ethiopian peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front
EPRDF’s leadership structure and election | Metekakat review

The Metekakat plan – officially adopted in June 2009 by the ruling party, EPRDF – is meant.

EPRDF Congress| Undermined by fuzzy Metekakat plan

The Late Prime Minster Meles Zenawi was both present and absent at the two-yearly Congress.

Somaliland’s long wait for int’l recognition

[Originally published on Somaliland Press.] Since its secession from the rest of Somalia in 1991,.

Ethiopian Flag 1987 - Emperor Menelik era
Reality check | The Ethiopian Flag qua Politics

Ethiopians are celebrating the National flag day for the fourth time today. The previous three.

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.

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

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa of April 2007, classified as ‘Secret’, presents.

Map - Nationalities in northern Ethiopia [published by Derg regime]
Reality-check: Tigray annexed Amhara lands?

You must have heard the allegation that ‘Tigray annexed Amhara lands’. That is mainly in reference.