AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

23 juli 2019

• Deportation of Sudan Rebel Delegation From Ethiopia Halted
  [Radio Dabanga] Addis Ababa -The Ethiopian security authorities initiated deportation procedures for the delegation of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) headed by Jibril Ibrahim on Sunday morning., however Diplomatic intervention stopped the delegation from being moved to Addis Ababa airport.
• Death Toll Rises to 'More Than 35' in Sidama Zone, Hundreds Displaced
  [Addis Standard] The number of civilians killed in Sidama zone in southern Ethiopia since July 18 has risen to "more than 35", according to Yigezuh Adamu, a resident of Yirgalem who is currently in Hawassa city. "Hundreds of people are also displaced after their properties were vandalized," Yegezu said. "We are trying to coordinate a report on the amount of casualties and property damages so as to provide it to the regional state," Yigezuh said, referring to himself and his friends.
• Forced Displacement Causes Controversy in Ethiopia's Omo Valley
  [VOA] A dam project and sugarcane plantation intended to transform southern Ethiopia could mean the end to a way of life for indigenous people living in the region.
• Don't Reverse Course On Press Freedom, RSF Urges Govt
  [RSF] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about a recent wave of press freedom violations in Ethiopia, including an army general's direct threat against a journalist, the arrests of several journalists and frequent Internet blackouts, all of which have set back the significant progress that Ethiopian began making more than a year ago.
• Abiy's Walking a Tightrope, Let's Pray He Doesn't Fall Off
  [East African] Something peculiar - and profoundly significant in the broad sweep of African politics - is happening in Ethiopia.
• Abiy's Ethiopia Democratic Revolution Is Unravelling
  [Nation] Upon coming to power on April 2, 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised liberty. But one year on, and as Ethiopia edges closer to its election scheduled for 2020, the country's democratic revolution is eating itself, and inadvertently chipping into the foundations of the existing security order in the volatile Horn of Africa region.
• Country At a Crossroads As Region in South Pushes for New State
  [East African] Ethiopia risks splitting into small regional units if the government allows the Sidama in the south to declare its own state in five months.