Category: Ethiopia
Under darkness in the Somali region of Ethiopia
Graham Peebles recounts the state-sponsored crimes – torture, murder, rape, land theft and the burning of villages – inflicted by the Ethiopian regime on the Somali inhabitants of the country’s Ogaden region.
The pain of Ethiopia’s Ogaden Somalis
Graham Peebles details the gross violations of human rights practised by the Ethiopian government against the Ogaden Somalis, and calls on donor countries to stop turning a blind eye to these crimes.
The great Ethiopian land giveaway
Graham Peebles argues that the Ethiopian government’s policy of leasing vast tracts of fertile land to foreign agribusiness corporations and forcibly relocating farmers is impoverishing the countryside and degrading its people.
Ethiopia: displacement, intimidation and abuse
Graham Peebles argues that foreign businesses, in collusion with the ruling regime in Ethiopia and under the indifferent watch of foreign aid donors, are raping the Ethiopian countryside and impoverishing rural people.
Ethiopian annihilation of the Ogaden people
Graham Peebles examines the gross human rights violations perpetrated by the Ethiopian paramilitary police in the occupied Ogaden Somali region with the knowledge of donor countries, including the US and UK.
Ethiopian migrants abused, unwelcome in Yemen
Graham Peebles describes the ordeal of Ethiopian migrants to Yemen and urges the Ethiopian government and donor nations to assume their responsibilities and eliminate the causes of migration and protect migrants’ rights.
Unity – the path to change in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles argues that the opportunity presented by the change of prime minister in Ethiopia has proven hollow and that the political opposition is fragmented, dysfunctional and offers no vision of change.
Ethiopia’s opportunity: a new day beckons
Graham Peebles argues that the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi provides an opportunity for the country to reunite its fragmented communities, restore human dignity and establish democracy and human rights.
Nightmare of Ethiopian workers in the Gulf
Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers.
Ethiopia’s land giveaway
Graham Peebles highlights the injustices and hardships caused to ordinary Ethiopians by their government’s policy of giving away agricultural land to foreign cash-crop investors and land speculators.
