EUFF rebels bake down Metema town’s TPLF-owned business units

 May 2, 2012

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Press Release METEMA, Northwestern Ethiopia – A business district in this city on a extent with adjacent Sudan was burnt down on Apr 28, rebels conspicuous on Sunday.

Over 60 units in a business perform of a city called Jinghera were sent adult in fume as they were housing certainty agents of a government TPLF regime, rebels of a Ethiopian Unity and Freedom Force (EUFF) told Ethiomedia on Sunday.

New law offer relates a fist on Ethiopia’s Press

 May 2, 2012

Ethiopian primary dispense Meles Zenawi’s organization has been indicted of seeking to conceal a populous country’s individualist press with a new pointer that will have publishers take accountability for any argumentative ease out of their presses. FILE | AFRICA REVIEW |

By ARGAW ASHINE (ST)

The Ethiopian organization has activated a magnitude tying pointer that authorises printers to bury a ease of newspapers and other publications that play off their presses.

HUMAN RIGHTS NGO WORKING GROUP FEATURES GAMBIA IN REPORT

 May 2, 2012

Burning Issues : HUMAN RIGHTS NGO WORKING GROUP FEATURES GAMBIA IN REPORT By Ousman Sillah on 02-05-12 (10 reads) News by a same author

During a Forum of a African Human Rights NGOs from a 14 to a 16 Apr 2012, that preceded a 51 Ordinary Session of a African Commission for Human Rights also hold in a Gambia, a participants focused on a conditions in eleven African countries, including a Gambia, in propinquity to a issues of Torture, Death Penalty and Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa.

World Press Freedom Day: Attacks opposite reporters around a world

 May 2, 2012

Journalists operative in normal media outlets from Pakistan to Colombia, Mexico to Sudan and many nations opposite Eastern Europe and a Middle East faced harassment, attacks, astray seizure or even genocide usually for doing their job.

Americas Reporters perplexing to display abuses of power, tellurian rights violations and crime are visit targets of attacks and nuisance opposite Latin America and a Caribbean.

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 May 2, 2012

His wife Serkalem Fasil, who is a journalist and also spent time in jail, received the award on his behalf.

In the past decade, more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country, press freedom groups say.

‘Withering conditions’ “I accept this award on behalf of Eskinder Nega at a time when freedom of expression and press freedom are at the lowest in Ethiopia,” Ms Serkalem said on Tuesday night in a ceremony in New York.