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REMEMBERING THE MARTYRS, CONDEMNING THE REPRESSION
EPRP PRESS RELEASE -November 24/ 2008

November has had the saddening habit of being a month of death and grief in Ethiopia of recent times. Back in the Derg days we remember the summary execution of 60 people, the brutal killing of 23 young EPRP members and in November 2005 the savage slaying of more than 50 peaceful demonstrators by the Meles Zenawi regime. Read more….

PROFITING FROM ETHIOPIAN BLOOD -THE DISASTROUS INVASION OF SOMALIA
Press Release - October 29 2008

The ongoing hue and cry over a possible withdrawal of the invading troops of Meles Zenawi from Somalia is but a smokescreen for a greedy enterprise that has profited from the blood of ordinary Ethiopians. Meles Zenawi invaded Somalia for no strategic Ethiopian concern but he and his regime wanted to profit financially, politically and militarily from the undertaking. In the process, thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians have perished. Read more...

Group says US used Ethiopia for dirty work
The National -Matt Brown, Foreign Correspondent

Nestled somewhere among the green hillsides of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, is a cluster of small detention centres, where detainees have languished for almost two years without being charged. The detention centres are part of an illegal rendition programme that has spanned three Horn of Africa countries and included US interrogators. Human rights organisations have called the jails “Africa’s Guantanamo”, after the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where suspected terrorists have been held since 2002. Read More....

British minister withholds aid as Ethiopia hides famine victims
TIMESONLINE- October 18, 2008

Britain is to withhold future aid commitments to Ethiopia over concerns that its Government is obstructing efforts to help millions at risk of famine in the drought-stricken Somali region in the east of the country. Douglas Alexander, the Minister for International Development, flew to Ethiopia on Thursday with a proposal committing millions in funds to the vast African nation over several years. Read more...

EPRP DENOUNCES NEW REPRESSIVE LAW TO BE PROCLAIMED BY THE REGIME
Press Release -October 15 2008

It has been twice revised since May 2008 but it has become more repressive each time. It is before the rubber stamp parliament and it will for sure be adopted as the Meles Zenawi regime has ordered it should be. The Charities and Societies proclamation that will set up the all powerful and arbitrary Charities and Societies Agency is aimed at banning NGOs working on human rights issues in Ethiopia (women's, children's, disabled person's rights, etc...). Read more…

MP demands inquiry into 'British interrogation of detainees in Ethiopia'
guardian.co.uk -Tuesday October 14 2008 10.25 BST

An MP today called for a parliamentary inquiry into claims that British agents were involved in the interrogation of detainees in Ethiopia who had been illegally transported from neighbouring Somalia. Read more...

Sudan summons Kenyan, Ethiopian envoys over arms
By Andrew Heavens

KHARTOUM, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Sudan summoned the Kenyan and Ethiopian ambassadors on Monday to protest against what it said were illegal shipments of arms to its semi-autonomous south, state media reported. Read more...

EPRP CONDEMNS TORTURE OF PRISONERS AND THE VIOLATIONS OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF ETHIOPIA
Press Release

Political Prisoners deported by force from Nairobi to Mogadishu and then taken to Ethiopia to be imprisoned in fetid secret prisons in Addis Ababa have now revealed that they were tortured both by EPRDF soldiers and by Americans. I think the prison and the interrogation was under the control of the Americans, has said one detainee. Some of these detainees have now been released to Kenya while more than 22 are still being held in what is now being called the African Guantanamo. Read more…

INVADING TROOPS MUST LEAVE SOMALIA WITHOUT ANY DELAY
Press Release

Leave aside the increasing violence and mayhem in Mogadishu and other places, the recent report that the Somali Transitional Government is to be moved out of Somalia to Nairobi is enough proof that the invasion by the troops of Meles Zenawi has turned into a complete fiasco. Read more...

Aid workers kidnapped in Ethiopia
International Herald Tribune - France

Two expatriate workers of French aid group Medecins du Monde have been kidnapped in a rebellious region of Ethiopia near the border with Somalia, the group said Tuesday. Read more...

World Food Programme warns of worst Ethiopia crisis since 1984
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday appealed for 460 million dollars as a food crisis in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa continued to grow. Read more...

High and extreme levels of food insecurity persist in southern and southeastern Ethiopia
Ethiopia Food Security Update August 2008 - ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland

High and extreme levels of food insecurity persist in southern and southeastern Ethiopia following successive seasons of below-average rains, flooding in riverine areas, livestock disease, an armyworm infestation, conflict, inadequate humanitarian assistance, and extremely high and rising food prices. Read more...

Food security in drought-stricken Ethiopia at alarming levels, warns UN
UN NEWS CENTRE -8 September 2008

The food security situation in Ethiopia has deteriorated to alarming levels in the wake of drought conditions throughout much of the Horn of Africa country, and relief agencies are grappling with shortages of supplies, the United Nations warned today. Read more...

THE SAVAGE REPRESSION IN THE OGADEN MUST STOP (pdf english)

EPRP Press Statement on The Sale of Land to Saudi Arabia (pdf English) 

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