Ethiopia: Tainted Ally
Nicholas Wadhams and Zoe Alsop, for the Pulitzer Center
Ethiopia wages war with suspected Islamic extremists in Somalia and within its volatile east.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- Dressed in a black Adidas track suit and seated amid a comfortable clutter of term papers and political science tomes in his modest office at Addis Ababa University, Prof.
Ethiopia's impoverished Somali region still bears evidence of the 1970s war between Somalia and Ethiopia.
A U.S.-based human rights group is accusing the Ethiopian government of widespread abuses as it cracks down on a rebel group in its southeastern Ogaden region.
GODE, Ethiopia — The town of Gode sits on an arid plain of brittle yellow scrub brush in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region. It looks like a place a John Wayne character might live and die.
Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry has released a statement telling the western press that it needs to be more obje
(04-16) 04:00 PDT Ghimbi, Ethiopia -- First, the police threw Tesfaye into a dark cell.
The State Department's 2006 human rights report for Ethiopia cited "numerous credible reports that security officials often beat or mistreated detainees." It included more than 30 pages of detailed
U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops grabbed headlines this winter, invading Somalia to drive the Islamic Courts Union from power.
Ethiopia has launched a campaign to offset reports that hundreds of al-Qa'eda suspects are being held in appalling prison conditions.
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Nick Wadhams is a freelance reporter based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was previously United Nations correspondent for The Associated Press.
In eight years with AP, Nick also reported for the Moscow,...
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Zoe Alsop moved to Kenya this fall to work as a journalist. Prior to moving she researched organized crime and police corruption in New York city for the book, Brotherhoods: The True Story of...