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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy aren’t child soldiers treated as human trafficking ‘survivors’?
Child soldiers are often shunned when they return from war. This is no way to treat ‘survivors’
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFacebook is responsible for my dad’s death, alleges a man suing Meta
A new lawsuit claims the tech giant has failed to moderate harmful content that incites violence in Africa
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Published in: 50.50: NewsTwitter firings have ‘serious consequences’ for rights, campaigners warn
Twitter’s disbanding of its Africa office and human rights team poses a threat to information across the continent
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Published in: Home: OpinionA hunger crisis threatens millions. Will world leaders take action?
One person is dying from hunger every 48 seconds in East Africa. A global galvanising effort is urgently needed
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAfrican governments warned of lawsuits for maternal deaths under COVID-19 lockdowns
Exclusive: Women have died or suffered unsafe births after transport bans, while hospitals report rising equipment shortages.
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Published in: 50.50Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work
I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has...
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Published in: Home‘Anticipatory anxiety’: Africa on the cusp of pandemic
How will African health facilities cope with a flood of people with COVID-19? How can those living close together...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopians in Lebanon: between revolution and slavery
The Ethiopian government continues to sidestep taking any meaningful action to rescue citizens trapped in revolution...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopia’s dam: a lifeline or a show of power?
Are tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam about regional influence or limited...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeven Ethiopians die in Lebanon while their consulate abandons them
The steady stream of coffins being shipped from Lebanon to Ethiopia, won’t be slowing any time soon.
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Published in: HomeLocal bosses may fill the party-sized hole in Ethiopia’s next election
Ethiopia has traditions of local self-government – could they induce voters to look at independent candidates for Parliament?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopian workers in Lebanon challenge their consulate: “What are you here for?”
The Ethiopian consulate is either absent or complicit in the struggle against the kafala system in Lebanon.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthio-Lebanese corpse disposal inc.
The Addis Standard uncovers the bilateral effort to cover-up Ethiopian deaths in Lebanon.
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Published in: HomePolitical shake-up and localism can edge Ethiopia forwards
To end paralysis, the political landscape needs restructuring: resurgent grassroots democracy must smother elitism,...
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Published in: HomeEthiopian elite lost in electoral maze under Abiy's gaze
If the Prime Minister chooses to lean on his personal popularity, could he obtain and sustain enough political...
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Published in: HomeTackling the kilil system: a critical response to ‘Ethiopia: Climbing Mount Uncertainty’
“A powerful leadership cannot resolve the endless ethnic conflicts in Ethiopia and save the country. Only a genuine...
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Published in: HomeEthiopia’s reform process: a seven-point response to Messay Kebede’s critique
“I don’t have any “aim” when I write my articles, other than to present the situation as I understand it. I don’t...
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Published in: HomeSeparating the wheat from the chaff on Ethiopia: reply to René Lefort
One must see things in their movement rather than in their fixity. The EPRDF is the only path toward maintaining the...
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Published in: HomeEthiopia: climbing Mount Uncertainty
"Abiy Ahmed has already gone down in history for addressing the pressing demands of the vast majority of...
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Published in: HomePacified politics or risk of disintegration? A race against time in Ethiopia
The dramatic changes of the last months have moved Ethiopia away from “the gates of hell ”, but all options are...