Reuters
March 10, 2010
Mark Trevelyan
LONDON – The United Nations Ethics Committee has upheld complaints by a former employee of the U.N. Development Programme who said he suffered retaliation from the UNDP for alleging that its Somalia programme was corrupt.
The man, Ismail Ahmed, was transferred to another office without proper visa support, and the UNDP Somalia office [...]
UN agency punished Somalia whistleblower
Ethiopian Jewry gets its first Haggada
Jerusalem Post, Israel
March 12, 2010
RUTH EGLASH
Historic saga will be incorporated into mainstream Pessah story for first time.
The historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada written by Ethiopian-Jewish history expert Rabbi Menachem Waldman.
Set to reach bookstores [...]
Ethiopian court sentences killer of opposition candidate to 15 years in prison
APA
March 12, 2010
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) An Ethiopian court has sentenced to 15 years imprisonment the convicted killer of an opposition candidate for Ethiopia’s parliamentary election in the May 2010, APA learns here Thursday.
The opposition party candidate, Aregawi Gebre-Yohannes, a member of Arena opposition party was killed 10 days ago at a restaurant he owned near [...]
Mogadishu residents told to leave Somali capital
BBC
March 12, 2010
Mogadishu’s mayor has told residents to leave the Somali capital’s war zones, amid fierce battles with insurgents.
At least 50 people have been killed in three days of Islamist insurgent attacks, witnesses and officials say.
Mayor Abdurisaq Mohamed Nor said the long-anticipated government offensive may start soon, so residents should withdraw at least 2km [...]
U.S. report accuses Eritrea of systematic abuses
Reuters/Washington Post
March 12, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – The United States has intensified its criticism of Eritrea, saying the Red Sea state systematically abuses human rights and is a destabilizing influence in the Horn of Africa.
In its annual human rights country report, released late on Thursday, the U.S. State Department accused Eritrea of sponsoring terrorism in [...]
US Rights Report Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner
VOA
March 11, 2010
Peter Heinlein
Addis Ababa
The U.S. State Department’s annual human rights reports says Ethiopia is holding several hundred political prisoners, including the leader of one of the country’s largest opposition parties. Ethiopia has reacted strongly to past U.S. criticisms of its rights record.
The 2009 human rights report says Birtukan Mideksa, president of Ethiopia’s [...]
2009 Human Rights Report: Eritrea
US State Dept.
March 11, 2010
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Human Rights Report: Eritrea
Eritrea, with a population of an estimated 5.5 million, is a one party state that became independent in 1993 when citizens voted for independence from Ethiopia, following 30 years of civil war. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), previously [...]
2009 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia
US State Dept.
March 11, 2010
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a federal republic led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition. The population is estimated at 77 million. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the EPRDF won a majority of seats to remain [...]
Israel eyes new alliances in Africa
UPI
March 9, 2010
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation.
But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to fight the growing [...]
Ethiopian to hire consulting firm on data recording machines
Reporter, Ethiopia
March 6, 2010
Kaleyesus Bekele
Following the controversy over the plane crash investigation process, the management of Ethiopian Airlines is contemplating hiring an international consulting firm that specializes in Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) machines, it was learnt.
The Reporter last week reported that the Lebanese authorities had tampered with the CVR’s memory [...]
