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Global Group Slammed for Accepting Ethiopia

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a global coalition of governments, companies and civil society seeking openness and accountability in the management of natural resource revenues, has approved Ethiopia as a member, despite Human Rights Watch saying the country's "harsh repression" of independent voices is "utterly incompatible" with the global effort to increase public oversight over government.
William Lloyd-George/IPS

Several hundred opposition protesters gathered in northern town of Gondar to call on the government to stop exploiting the anti-terrorism law and release those imprisoned using the law (file photo).

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