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Ethiopia’s Zone 9 bloggers were on Wednesday nominated for the 2016 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. The Ethiopian blogging group shared the nominations with activists from China and Syrian. Chinese activist Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur intellectual, is currently… Read more ›

Norway has offered to pay asylum seekers about $3680.61 to voluntarily leave and return to their home countries. The offer which begins this Monday was announced by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration’s (Utlendingsdirektoratet- UDI). The payment program has been increased… Read more ›

Ethnic violence has claimed 14 lives in Gambella, western Ethiopia this weekend after the car of a non-governmental organization (NGO) struck and killed two Nuer children. According to AP, the death of the children, who are from a South Sudanese… Read more ›

Kenya has condemned Tanzania’s decision to drop-off 74 Ethiopian ex-convicts at the Kenyan side of the Taveta border. Tanzania reportedly transported the Ethiopians, who had finished their prison terms in the country, to the border early Tuesday morning. Kenyan immigration… Read more ›

The death toll from Friday’s attack on members of the Nuer ethnic group in Ethiopia’s Gambella province has been increased from 140 to 208. The attackers, who are reportedly members of the Murle tribe from South Sudan, allegedly also abducted… Read more ›

Armed groups from South Sudan have attacked and killed over 100 Ethiopian members of the Nuer ethnic group. The deadly attack reportedly happened on Friday morning in Jakawa, located in Ethiopia’s border region of Gambella. About ten villages reportedly inhabited… Read more ›

A 34-year-old man of Eritrean descent is considering legal action after being sent off an EasyJet flight by armed guards because a fellow passenger did not feel safe with his presence aboard. According to Meghary Yemane-Tesfagiorgis of North London, the… Read more ›

Three Ethiopian tourists knelt in gratitude before two Chinese construction workers who found and returned their lost briefcase containing $356,000 on Friday in China’s Guangdong province. The migrant workers Peng Xiaoliang and Hu Guohui discovered the white suitcase while waiting… Read more ›