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Ethiopia: The “liberty of movement”

November 10, 2013 – Alemayehu G. Mariam — No Comments ↓

freedom of movement “Government announces temporary ban on traveling abroad for work”

Last week the “Ministry of Foreign Affairs” of the ruling regime in Ethiopia announced:

In an effort to curb the rising tide of abuse and exploitation of Ethiopian migrants, [there will

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Political Prisoners Inside Ethiopia’s Gulags

February 27, 2012 – Alemayehu G. Mariam — 2 Comments ↓

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The Plight of Andualem Aragie and Other Political Prisoners in Ethiopia

The “Gulag” prison system in the old Soviet Union was infamous for warehousing and persecuting dissidents and opponetns. The gulags were used effectively to weed out …

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What Should Starving Ethiopians do to Help Themselves?

September 5, 2011 – Alemayehu G. Mariam — 3 Comments ↓

Alemayehu G. Mariam

In 1987 when Time Magazine featured a famine-stricken Ethiopian mother on its cover page, it failed to ask the most important question of all: What should Ethiopians do and not do to help themselves?

It is the …

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