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/ 10 September 2009
A coalition of opposition parties accused the Ethiopian authorities on Thursday of arresting some of its members to stop them running in an election.
A US-based university professor is among 13 men convicted in absentia by Ethiopia for plotting to overthrow the government, it was reported on Friday.
An Ethiopian court jailed a Canadian for life on Monday after he was convicted of membership of a rebel group fighting for independence.
A group of men accused of plotting to topple Ethiopia’s government were tortured in prison during lengthy interrogations, relatives said on Monday.
African members of the International Criminal Court will not pull out despite their opposition to its indictment of the Sudanese president.
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/ 1 February 2009
The African Union (AU) has warned Madagascar’s opposition leader after he said he had taken power on the Indian Ocean island.
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/ 30 October 2008
Developed countries are planning to cut aid to Africa due to the global financial crisis, a senior African Union (AU) commissioner said on Wednesday.
Governance has improved in almost two-thirds of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an index published on Monday.
Troubled by a difficult case, doctor Asfaw Atnafu decides to seek advice. He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Linked by a high-speed internet connection, the doctors study X-rays and laboratory results.
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/ 1 November 2007
There is a settlement in Ethiopia where houses are in high demand, new restaurants and bars open often and nearly 700 people moved in last month alone. But Shimelba is a refugee camp, not a boom town, and its residents — exiles from neighbouring Eritrea whose ranks are swelling at an alarming rate — are uniformly miserable.