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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

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.

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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.

Failed States Index

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Three African states -- Somalia, Chad, and Sudan -- once again top this

year's Failed States Index, the annual ranking prepared by the

Fund for Peace and published by FOREIGN POLICY of the world's

most vulnerable countries. For four years in a row, Somalia has

held the No. 1 spot, indicating the depth of the crisis in the

international community's longest-running failure.

The new edition of the index draws on some 130,000 publicly available

sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 indicators of

pressure on the state during the year 2010 -- from refugee flows to

poverty, public services to security threats. Taken together, a country's

performance on this battery of indicators tells us how stable -- or

unstable -- it is. And the latest results show how much the 2008 economic

crisis and its ripple effects everywhere, from collapsing trade to soaring

food prices to stagnant investment, are still haunting the world.

G20 Los Cabos Leaders' Summit opens

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon delivered the opening speech to welcome

leaders of the world's industrialized nations and major emerging economies

to the first plenary session of the two-day event with the global economic

crisis on top of its agenda.

US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hand with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi before the first plenary session of the Leaders G20 Summit in Los Cabos, on June 18, 2012. The leaders of the world's most powerful economies meet for a G20 summit confronted by turmoil in the eurozone, a critical election in Greece and worsening bloodshed in Syria. Getty Images

US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hand

with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

before the first plenary session of the Leaders

G20 Summit in Los Cabos, on June 18, 2012.

The leaders of the world's most powerful

economies meet for a G20 summit confronted

by turmoil in the eurozone, a critical election in

Greece and worsening bloodshed in Syria.

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