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Ethiopia on the Brink: The Genocidal Campaign of Abiy Ahmed’s Regime
Republished July 29, 2025 The Habesha Introduction Ethiopia, once regarded as a rising star in Africa with promises of reform and unity, now stands gripped by one of the gravest human rights crises of the 21st century. Under the leadership of...

Lanarkshire MP calls for tougher social media rules after 'knife crime glamorisation'
A Lanarkshire MP has called for the stop to the "glamorisation" of knife crime online, following the death of East Kilbride teenager Kayden Moy. The 16-year-old was found with serious injuries at Irvine beach on May 17. He was rushed to hospital...

Scots MP calls for tighter social media regulation after 'online knife crime glamorisation'
A Labour MP has called for a stop to the "very real glamorisation of knife crime online", following the death of Scots teenager Kayden Moy. Kayden, 16, was found with serious injuries at Irvine beach on May 17. The East Kilbride teen was rushed to...

Czech musician set to perform in Kent detained, sent back to Prague
Jaroslav Skuta said he was detained for several hours before being denied entry into the U.S. Skuta, 35, attended Kent State University on a scholarship in 2019. Skula has returned to northern Ohio several times to perform. A Czech clarinetist...

Czech musician set to perform in Ohio detained, sent back to Prague
Jaroslav Skuta said he was detained for several hours before being denied entry into the U.S. Skuta, 35, attended Kent State University on a scholarship in 2019. Skuta has returned to northern Ohio several times to perform. A Czech clarinetist...

Biggest sources of immigrants to Nevada
Biggest sources of immigrants to Nevada Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the...

Biggest sources of immigrants to Washington
Biggest sources of immigrants to Washington Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the...

Biggest sources of immigrants to Minnesota
Biggest sources of immigrants to Minnesota Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the...

Biggest sources of immigrants to South Dakota
Biggest sources of immigrants to South Dakota Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in...

Biggest sources of immigrants to Colorado
Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the last several hundred years. And while the...

Biggest sources of immigrants to Kansas
Biggest sources of immigrants to Kansas And while the distinctive American culture and spirit is the result of blending many diverse cultures and histories, the United States has for centuries had an up-and-down relationship with immigration. Each...

Biggest sources of immigrants to Iowa
Biggest sources of immigrants to Iowa Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the last...

Abiy’s War Script: Déjà Vu for Tigray, Ominous for Ethiopia
A chilling repeat of tactics used in the Tigray war signals that another devastating conflict may be in the making—unless the cycle is urgently broken. In Ethiopia, history is not a relic. It is an active script, often rewritten but rarely...
Ethiopia: Proposed Legal Changes Threaten Civil Society
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian lawmakers should reject proposed amendments to the civil society law that would grant the government sweeping powers to restrict nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. Ethiopia’s partners should...

Ethiopia: Manufacturing Crisis To Manufacture Consent
Writing for Horn Review, an Ethiopian thinktank, Ambassador Dina Mufti proposes a solution to the Eritrea-Ethiopia “conundrum” in the form of a “supranational union” modeled on the European Union, with four pillars: economic integration (e.g.,...

Reform UK vows to repeal ‘borderline dystopian’ Online Safety Act
Reform UK has promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, arguing that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would instead make the UK “a borderline dystopian state”. At a press conference in...

Guest Commentary: Trump, Republicans are missing a golden opportunity to expand their base
There are so many reasons why mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and evicting refugees who are in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons is a terrible policy and will be self-defeating in the end. The most glaring, of course, is that our...

Five new foreign envoys present credentials to President
Five newly appointed Ambassadors and one High Commissioner to Sri Lanka officially presented their credentials to President Anura Kumara Disanayake at the Presidential Secretariat last week (24). Alem Woldemariam – Ambassador of the State of...
Ethiopia: Where Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun
by Thomas C. Mountain / July 28th, 2025 There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the western backed corrupt, brutal gangster regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he...

Martyrs of Today
We are bombarded by a constant stream of news concerning supposed mistreatment of and microagression against popular minorities, but little is said about the very real persecution of Christians. On June 22, a suicide bomber attacked the Greek...