Congressional Hearing on Ethiopia; Berhanu Nega Invited as Witness

SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING NOTICE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6128

Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Chairman

TO: MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

You are respectfully requested to attend an OPEN hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to be held by the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building (and available live on the Committee website at www.foreignaffairs.house.gov):

DATE: Thursday, June 20, 2013 TIME: 10:00 a.m.

SUBJECT: Ethiopia After Meles: The Future of Democracy and Human Rights

WITNESSES: Panel I
The Honorable Donald Y. Yamamoto

Acting Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of African Affairs
U.S. Department of State

The Honorable Earl W. Gast
Assistant Administrator
Bureau for Africa
U.S. Agency for International Development

Panel II
Berhanu Nega, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics Bucknell University

J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.
Director
Michael S. Ansari Africa Center Atlantic Council

Mr. Obang Metho
Executive Director
Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia

*NOTE: Witnesses may be added.

By Direction of the Chairman