Ethiopia is reaching tipping point.

The International Crisis Group warns of the danger of an eruption of ethnic-based violence in Ethiopia that could destabilize the country. Dictators sometimes forget the costs.

Systematic torture of political prisoners in Ethiopia

Opposition politicians, journalists and regime critics are subjected to systematic torture at a police station in Addis Ababa, according to a new report.

Suspected Norwegian Somali is linked to the Nairobi images

Norwegian and Kenyan police believe a 23-year-old Norwegian of Somali origin has participated in terrorist attacks in Nairobi in September.

Enlarge Norwegian and Kenyan police believe  a 23-year-old Norwegian of Somali origin has participated in terrorist attacks in Nairobi in September. He was named by the BBC and linked to surveillance photos from the action.

Massive crackdown underway in Ethiopia

Massive crackdown underway on opposition stronghold of South Wollo, Ethiopia

It was a pre-dawn assault by hundreds of heavily armed federal police members backed by pro-TPLF local militia on the opposition UDJP strong hold of South Wollo province.

Bomb blast in Ethiopian capital kills two: state radio

October 14, 2013

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A bomb blast in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa killed two people on Sunday, state radio said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but Ethiopia says it has thwarted plots of attacks in the past two years and blames rebel groups based in the south and southeast, as well as Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents.

The Right to Protest

Ethiopian Regime Repression

They speak of democracy, but act violently to suppress dissenting voices and control the people through the inculcation of fear: they ignore human rights and trample on the people, they are a tyrannical

Dictatorship prisoners in Ethiopia

The film about journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, who was imprisoned in Ethiopia and was sentenced to eleven years in prison here.

     The Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson was shot and arrested when attempting to illegally enter the Ogaden region of Ethiopia to report on conditions there. For four days, they were kept in the desert where they were forced to participate in a film that would be used as evidence against them. The interrogations were harsh and they suffered, among other things, a mock