Since it came to power over 20 years ago, the TPLF regime has always declared its achievements in Ethiopia’s political and economic sectors. Everybody knows the state media ETV and its daily nonstop propaganda of how much better Ethiopia has become over the years. Not only that, TPLF has been telling the international community about how it changed and transformed Ethiopia. So much so that it had even deceived some Bush and Obama adminstration officials to believe its lies.
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Hailemariam’s fake “top 10 educated” list falls apart By Abebe Gellaw
The official website of India TV that had published a dubious online ranking two weeks ago that it claimed to be a list of the “top 10 most educated politicians in the world” has retracted the story.Indiantvnews.com has now pulled back the “top 10” story and changed the title saying the random list was just intended to highlight the educational backgrounds of 10 leaders from around the world without any sort of ranking.In response to an email inquiry challenging the authenticity of the original list that contradicts publicly available facts, Anushrav Gulati, an editor with the website, acknowledged mistakes in the confusing ranking.
Äthiopien: Wo Journalisten schnell zu Terroristen werden
Die äthiopische Regierung übt großen Druck auf Journalisten aus – Wer das Regime in Frage stellt, wird vor Gericht gestellt
Äthiopien ist in den allermeisten Entwicklungs- und Wirtschaftsstatistiken afrikanischer Länder unter den Aufsteigern. Bei Menschrechts- und Presseindizes zählt das ostafrikanische Land allerdings zu den Schlusslichtern. Im Jahr 2013 zählte Äthiopien gleich hinter Eritrea zu jenen Ländern Afrikas mit den meisten Journalistenverhaftungen. Im Jahr 2014 wird der Negativ-Rekord wohl wieder gebrochen werden, sind doch in den vergangenen Monaten erneut Magazin-Inhaber, Journalisten und Blogger vor Gericht gestellt worden.
‘Nightmare’ for Ethiopian pastoralists as foreign investors buy up land
David Smith, Africa correspondent theguardian.com
Thinktank accuses Ethiopian government of stirring ethnic tensions as Suri displaced to make way for large plantations . Ethiopia’s policy of leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors is encouraging human rights violations, ruining livelihoods and disturbing a delicate political balance between ethnic groups, a thinktank report has found.