23 July 2019 The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 10 St. James’s Square, London, SW1Y 4LE, England, UK, contact@chathamhouse.org SOCEPP firmly opposes the decision to include PM Abiy Ahmed as a nominee for the Chatham 2019 prize. The nomination goes against your mission statement ,” to...

29 June 2019 – Hiding under the flimsy cover of a ridiculous claim of an attempted coup d’état, the regime in Addis Abeba has unleashed its long prepared plan of massive repression against dissidents, especially those who are Amharas. More than a thousand dissidents have been rounded up...

20 June 2019 – The number of refugees all over the world has increased by millions and their plight and condition has worsened dramatically. Of the 70 million displaced all over the world the one with more than three million displaced–a record holder–is none other than Ethiopia. While...

23 March 2019: There is a huge propaganda blitz by the powers who brought to power the Abiy Ahmed Lemma Megersa group to power to cover up the deplorable and even dangerous situation Ethiopia, which given time, may plunge Ethiopia into a disastrous and catastrophic ethnic war to...

29 December 2015:  Hundreds of peaceful protesters are behind bars and, as usual, torture is extensive. Political activists like Bekele Gerba and Yohannes Tesfaye, journalists like Getachew Shifferaw, students both male and female, and many, many more are jailed. More than 84 have been killed all over the...

03 August 2015: The regime’s federal high court has sentenced members of Ethiopian Muslim Arbitration Committee members, one journalist and thirteen others to a lengthy jail term between seven and 22 years. The eighteen Muslims were falsely charged on counts that include attempted terrorism, conspiracy to establish an...

11 February 2016: “My name is Mikyas G., I am writing this letter because I fear that my brothers and father may be dead after being wrongfully accused. I just recently made my way to Canada from Ethiopia because my life was in danger at the hands of...