Saudi family hang Ethiopian maid from hook – brutally beat her
Saudi Arabian Family hang their Ethiopian maid upside down from a hook and beat her to a bloody pulp. She is drenched in blood from the whips and sticks that the Saudi men use to beat her. Non-European Foreign workers in the Gulf states are treated as de-facto Slaves, with no human rights and are […]
Read More →President Isaias Afwerki’s 2000 KM Road Trip to Port Sudan and Back – ERiTV Reportage
Asmara, 28 November 2013- President Isaias Afwerki returned home yesterday concluding visit to the Republic of the Sudan. Upon official invitation the President participated in the 7th Tourism and Shopping Festival in Port Sudan, as well as holding talks with President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir on bilateral relations and visited different institutions. On 26 November, President […]
Read More →SaharaTV’s Adeola Interviews Abebe Gellaw on deportation of Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia
Ethiopian Journalist, Abebe Gellaw joined SaharaTV’s Adeola Fayehun to explain the ongoing deportation of Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia. Gellaw, an exiled journalist and founder of Addis Voice stated that “There are over 30,000 Ethiopians held in concentration camps [in Saudi Arabia],†said Gellaw. He also noted that those in concentration camps rarely receive food and […]
Read More →Finally Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn speaks about the abuse of Saudi Arabiya on Ethiopian Immigrants
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Read More →Ethiopian migrants start riot in Saudi Mekah /Highway riot contained (Arab News)
Security forces arrested 20 Ethiopian rioters on the Makkah-Jeddah Expressway on Friday for throwing stones that damaged 14 cars and injured four Saudis. An eyewitness said police officers fired shots into the air to disperse the rioters and soon brought the situation under control. The Ethiopians were apparently rioting because they could not gain entry […]
Read More →MLDI launches bid to quash the phony conviction of Ethiopian journalists.
The Horn Times Newsletter By Getahune Bekele-South Africa “It is virtually impossible within the Ethiopian justice system for a journalist who has been unlawfully imprisoned to get justice.†Nani Janson, MLDI senior legal counsel. A UK based international charity organization is on fund raising mission to help secure the release of jailed Ethiopian journalists Eskender […]
Read More →Voice of Ethiopian refugees in Saudi
Set by BAILE DERSEH MIHRETE Fear of pain, Fear of those distraught eyes, Fear for the unknown, Fear for the known, Fear of everything combined Fear is what makes me blind, Fear is what makes me think and act in blind accordance, Hindering the world around me, Hence, my fear of myself, Fear is […]
Read More →NEPAD PLANNING AND COORDINATING AGENCY First Scientific Conference on Medicines Regulation in Africa
NEPAD PLANNING AND COORDINATING AGENCY Â Â Â Â Â Â Â MEDIA ADVISORY First Scientific Conference on Medicines Regulation in Africa WHAT:Â Media is invited to attend the official opening of the first-ever Scientific Conference on Medicines Regulation in Africa WHO:Â The Conference, organised by the NEPAD Agency will be attended by experts from the South African […]
Read More →Media Legal Defence Initiative challenges the abuse of anti-terror laws against journalists in Ethiopia
Veteran Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega and freelance journalist Reeyot Alemu are amongst a number of journalists, opposition politicians and other dissenting voices who have been prosecuted and imprisoned under Ethiopia’s 2009 Anti-terrorism Proclamation. Eskinder is serving an 18 year prison sentence while Reeyot is serving 5 years; each for doing no more than their job […]
Read More →Ethiopia Push to Lure Farm Investment Falters on Flood Plain
By William Davison - Gleaming Deere & Co. (DE) tractors and harvesters are sitting idle five years after Karuturi Global Ltd. (KARG) opened a farm in Ethiopia that was hailed as the poster child of the country’s plan to triple food exports by 2015. Eighty percent of the Bangalore-based company’s land in the southwestern Gambella […]
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