Ethiopia: Welcome to the whipped nation – FDRE

Animal trainers use a whip with a stiff handle to show who the boss is. A whip is used to gain control and achieve compliance using pain. During slavery in the US whipping was a powerful weapon used by the white master.  Whipping to humiliate was the hallmark of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Whipping is an old fashioned tool and really not that effective. Today psychological form of mental whipping is what is practiced by totalitarian regimes.

Saudi Arabia torturing refuges, what a shame!

Inter- governmental, economic and cultural relations are meant – to create awareness , strengthen social relations and benefit common citizens.

A message to Awramba Times editor Dawit Kebede

A message to the “professional Journalist” turned into “a TPLF Camelion” otherwise known as Dawit Kebede

We are going through a very depressing time in our whole existence as a society and as Ethiopians. TPLF is throwing out

World condems Jonglei peacekeeper deaths

The international community has continued to express condemnation of the death of 12 people in an ambush of a United Nations convoy in South Sudan’s Jonglei state on 9 April

ዜጎችን ከስፍራቸው ማፈናቀል አንዱ የኢህአዲግ ማናለብኝ ህገዎጥ ተግባር ነው

ሰሜን አሜሪካ አንድነት ድጋፍ ማህበራት የተሰጠ መግለጫ

የኢትዮጵያ ሕገ መንግስት፣ ዜጎች በማንኛውም የኢትዮጵያ ግዛት የመንቀሳቀስ፣ የመኖር ፣ የመነገድ ፣ የመምረጥና የመመረጥ መብት እንዳላቸው በግልጽ ያስቀምጣል። ነገር ግን ገዢው ፓርቲ ይሄን የዜጎች ሕገ መንግስታዊ መብት በመጣስ በተለያዩ ቦታዎች በዜጎች ላይ የሚያደርሰው ግፍና በደል ከጊዜ ወደ ጊዜ እየጨመረ ነዉ።

Updated report on Information controls in Ethiopia

In its updated report on Information controls in Ethiopia, the OpenNet Initiative states that Ethiopia remains a highly restrictive environment in which to express political dissent online. The government of Ethiopia has long filtered critical and oppositional political content, ONI reports. Anti-terrorism legislation is frequently used to target online speech, including in the recent conviction of a dozen individuals, many of whom were tried based on their online writings. OpenNet Initiative (ONI) testing

Ethiopia: Journalism under anti-terrorism law

How the US ‘war on terror’ has provided cover for laws that are being used to silence dissident journalists.