Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed continues his outreach tour in the United States on Saturday with a gathering for the diaspora in Washington D.C., part of a concerted effort to encourage Ethiopians who have left the country to return home and build its future. Abiy’s meeting at the Walter E….
Sierra Leone turned Wednesday to normal routines following a week-long mourning period for the victims of the August 14 flooding and landslides, but for many citizens life is still anything but normal. The official death toll stands at 500, but there are still more than 800 people missing. Local authorities…
Ethiopia’s state of emergency dramatically reduces access to information about the Oromo population from within the country, where independent journalists and bloggers have been silenced for weeks. From outside Ethiopia, however, Oromo journalists and activists continue to provide news of what’s happening behind the veil of tightly controlled state media….
An attack early Friday on activists planning a protest in Zimbabwe has met with a sharp criticism of human rights violations from The European Union mission in Harare. The EU officials, as well as the Head of Mission of Switzerland, were responding to the abduction reports of Patson Dzamara amid…