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CEO Eleni Gabre-Medhin Leaving ECX |
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Source: CAPITAL Anteneh Assefa, the vice president of Bank of Abyssinia (BoA), will succeed Eleni Z. Gabre-Medhin (PhD), founder and the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), as of the coming Ethiopian New Year. The current CEO, who founded and served the modern electronic market since April 2008, said that she will write a book about her experience in the exchange. |
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Ethiopian Government denies banning voice-over services |
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“We have not adopted a legislation that prevents people from using internet. You can skype as much as you want" 
The Office for Government Communication Affairs on Friday slammed recent reports regarding the new draft law that bans Skype, Google Talk and other uses of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services. The deputy head of the office, Shimelis Kemal, told reporters: “We have not adopted a legislation that prevents people from using internet. You can skype as much as you want.” |
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Ethiopians Report Dire Conditions in Saudi Jails |
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Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia say about 1,700 of their countrymen are being held in dire conditions at prisons in the Saudi city of Jazan. VOA's Horn of Africa Service spoke by phone to four of the prisoners this week. The prisoners said they lack sufficient food, water and medical treatment, and that eight Ethiopian inmates have died from malaria and other causes.  Ethiopians Report Dire Conditions in Saudi Jails |
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Ethiopia Shows That Congress Is Right to Be Worried About UN Control of the Internet |
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Today a key committee in the US Congress approved a resolution opposing United Nations "control over the Internet." While some in the Internet community have dismissed the bipartisan effort as mere political grandstanding, recent actions by some UN Member States show that lawmakers have good reason to be worried. Full Article at CircleID |
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U.N. rights chief accuses Eritrea of torture, killings |
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GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions.
Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there were between 5,000 and 10,000 political prisoners in the secretive African nation of some 6 million people which has been ruled by a single party and president since independence from Ethiopia in 1993. |
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