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Ethiopia's draft counterterrorism law could punish political speech and peaceful protest as terrorist acts and encourage unfair trials if enacted, Human Rights Watch said today. The government and members of parliament should amend the draft law, which may otherwise be imminently passed as-is by parliament, to meet international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said.
This paper analyses Ethiopia's draft Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (the draft Proclamation) and assesses to what extent the proposed law on its face conforms to international human rights standards. The draft law has been submitted to Parliament by the Council of Ministers and may be passed into law before the end of the current legislative session in July 2009.
THE East African Community (EAC) has approved $8.58m (sh18.5b) to support various projects and programmes for the financial year 2009/10. "The upscaling of support to the EAC from $640,920 during 2006/07 to $1.9m in 2007/08 and then to $6.6m in 2008/09 is a clear manifestation of the growing support and recognition of the EAC by the development partners," the secretary general of the East African ...
The Obama administration is seeking substantial increases in military aid to East African countries, leading some analysts to argue that the new president's handling of perceived threats to US interests closely resembles that of his predecessor, George W Bush.
This paper analyses Ethiopia's draft Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (the draft Proclamation) and assesses to what extent the proposed law on its face conforms to international human rights standards. The draft law has been submitted to Parliament by the Council of Ministers and may be passed into law before the end of the current legislative session in July 2009.
A man who Kenyan authorities allege has links to terrorists was Thursday found guilty of being in the country illegally.
Several years ago, as terrorism, immigration, and unrest in suburban Paris were at the top of the news in France, a French police officer confided to a researcher: "If you consider different levels of trafficking, it is obviously done by blacks and Arabs. If you are on the road and see a black man or a man with Arabic features, you say to yourself, 'He doesn't look French,' and then you might stop ...
For the umpteenth time - the government has moved to reassure its citizens of heightened security along its borders following threats of invasion by Somali Islamist militants.
An Al-Qaeda force fighting alongside Somali extremists against the transitional government has sent ripples through regional capitals.
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is Kenya's most dangerous terrorist.
Last month, several hundred jihadis came to link up with Al Shabaab's latest offensive, and now the Taliban are reportedly flocking to Somalia en masse.
BEYOND THE TERROR THREAT and instability in the region, the other concern that must strengthen the international community's determination to intervene in Somalia is that democracy and fundamentalism cannot mix.
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