New York –Yemeni government officials have tortured, raped, and executed migrants and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in a detention center in the southern port city of Aden, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have denied asylum seekers an opportunity to seek refugee protection and deported migrants en masse to dangerous conditions at...
Lawyers managed to keep Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi off a recent deportation flight. By Mila Koumpilova Rhoda Christenson took a phone call from her husband, Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi, outside her home Friday. Sharif is being held in detention. AARON LAVINSKY aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com First ordered to leave the country 16 years ago, Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi was supposed to be...
Emperor Menelik II statue and Ethiopian Flag are seen during the celebration of the 121st Anniversary of Ethiopia’s Battle of Adwa at King II Menelik Square in Addis Ababa on March 2, 2017. FILE PHOTO | AFP By NURUDDIN FARAH For centuries, foreign powers have alternately come, conquered, and colonised the peoples of the Somali...
Ethiopia and Greece’s relationship dates back to ancient times, and a small community is keeping both cultures alive. by Alice McCoo Ambassador Nikolaos Patakias takes a photo on the eve of Hellenic National Day [Thomas Lewton/Al Jazeera] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – “Did you know that Ethiopia gets its name from the Greek word Aethiopia, first used...
By Faisal Roble Fraught with endemic youth joblessness, ethnic unrest, massacres of innocent civilians, waves of population movements, the weakened Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is poised to select a new Prime Minister in the coming weeks from a host of hopeful candidates. Haile Mariam Desalegn surprisingly resigned in mid-February, 2018 amid serious political and social...
The sole African-American on the final jury panel was struck. By Ryan J. Reilly SEDGWICK COUNTY SHERIFF Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright (left to right) are accused of plotting to kill Somali Muslim refugees living in Kansas. WICHITA, Kansas ― An overwhelmingly white jury will decide the fate of three white militiamen facing...
Ethiopia’s ruling party, EPRDF, has convened a meeting to choose the country’s next prime minister. But debate is also focused on how to deal with the worsening political crisis. By Merga Yonas Bula For over three years, a wave of political unrest in Ethiopia, particularly in the Oromia regional state, has plunged the country into a deep political crisis....
By Nizar Manek, Bloomberg A budding dispute over plans to develop a port in Somaliland risks destabilizing the Horn of Africa region, the semi-autonomous territory’s foreign minister said. Saad Ali Shire’s comments raise the stakes in a standoff between Somaliland and Somalia, which this month declared the planned harbor illegal. The impasse could also jeopardize...
By Astrid Zweynert WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New technology has unleashed a wave of opportunities to secure formal land rights for hundreds of millions of people, but it is not a solve-all solution in countries with weak institutions, said a senior World Bank economist. Satellite imagery, drones, cloud computing and blockchain are among technologies...
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince describes accusations that Ritz Carlton detentions were part of a power grab as ‘naive’. In a wide-ranging interview, bin Salman discussed Iran, human rights and the war in Yemen [Dan Kitwood /Getty Images] Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said that “only death” will stop him from ruling the kingdom in...