Ethiopia

June 24, 2014

Aid donors announce investigation into tribal evictions in Ethiopia

Representatives of some of Ethiopia’s biggest aid donors are to send a team to the southwest of the country to investigate persistent reports of human rights abuses amongst the tribes living there.
November 28, 2013

Top human rights watchdog investigates Ethiopia and Botswana

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has called for the forced relocation of tribal people in Ethiopia to be halted, and has raised concerns over Botswana’s Bushmen.
November 27, 2012

Sudanese faith groups in united call for action on famine

A Christian bishop and a Muslim MP will form part of a Sudanese delegation to Ethiopia this week. They will urge the African Union to tackle famine and violence.
May 22, 2012

Debt threat returns to global south

Startling new research has found that debt burdens in impoverished countries have increased significantly since the debt cancellation of the 2000s.
March 28, 2012

Leaked map reveals impact of Ethiopia's plantation plans

Survival International have said that new photographic evidence proves Ethiopia's controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River.
December 2, 2011

African nations urged to arrest former President George W. Bush

Amnesty International has urged the governments of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia to arrest former US President George W. Bush for crimes of torture.
November 21, 2011

Ethiopia using anti-terror law to stifle peaceful dissent

The Ethiopian government should cease using its anti-terrorism law against journalists and peaceful political activists, two major human rights groups say.
October 13, 2011

United Nations demands answers from Ethiopia over Gibe III dam

The UN’s growing concern over Ethiopia’s construction of the Gibe III dam has prompted it to demand urgent information from the African state.
October 6, 2011

100 indigenous activists arrested in Ethiopia

Survival International say that around a hundred Ethiopian tribespeople have been arrested and jailed for opposing a controversial new dam.
September 14, 2011

World church leaders exposed to awful scale of African famine

The World Council of Churches' Executive Committee, meeting in Addis Ababa, have seen directly the impact of the regional humanitarian crisis.