Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa
Jun 15th
By Craig Whitlock: The U.S. military is expanding its secret intelligence operations across Africa, establishing a network of small air bases to spy on terrorist hideouts from the fringes of the Sahara to jungle terrain along the equator, according to documents and people involved in the project. Read More…
Woyane Government Steps Up Censorship, Digital Surveillance
Jun 13th
AllAfrica: In installing DPI and blocking access to Tor, the Ethiopian government is probably taking a first step towards installing a sophisticated filtering system that will eventually enable it to intercept emails, messages posted on social networks and Internet voice conversations using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software such as Skype. Read More…
CPJ Calls for Release of Jailed Reporters in Ethiopia
Jun 13th
VOA: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has discussed what it calls repressive and harsh treatment of the media with high-ranking members of Ethiopia's government. … The Committee to Protect Journalists says Ethiopia is holding eight journalists in prison, only neighboring Eritrea holds more jailed journalists in Africa. Read More…
Open Letter to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights
Jun 9th
SOCEPP: High Commissioner, Your recent statement that the killing of 100 people at Houla (Syria) “may constitute a crime against humanity” has prompted us to remind you that the massacre of more 1000 Anuaks (Ethiopians) in Gambella a few years back is surely a crime against humanity. Read More…
June 1991 — June 2012: 21 Years of Disappearance
Jun 9th
Their case has been ignored by local and international human rights organizations for no expressed reason. All queries by SOCEPP have been met with no reply from the ruling front that has since the late nineties intensified its actions against the clandestine EPRP in all possible ways. SOCEPP has not forgotten. SOCEPP remembers. These fighters for democracy who have been disappeared (and probably killed) are the real heroes and martyrs of the Ethiopian people. SOCEPP demands from the ruling front an official accounting on the fate of the disappeared. Read More…
