Last week, the Biden administration issued a new Executive Order (“E.O.”) that authorizes “menu-based” sanctions on persons determined to be responsible for or complicit in the ongoing crisis in northern Ethiopia, and announced a policy of denial for export licenses
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President Biden Authorizes New Sanctions Program Targeting Persons Responsible for Conflict in Ethiopia
On September 17, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO), “Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons with Respect to the Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia,” targeting persons responsible for the conflict in Ethiopia, obstructing humanitarian access and preventing…
100,000 children in Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition: UNICEF
More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a tenfold jump over average annual levels, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
Worst fears
UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado…
The Tigray Conflict: Ethiopia’s Humanitarian Disaster — Harry Sanders
Map of the Tigray conflict, which began in November and remains ongoingThis article was written by Harry Sanders, a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service.
Since November 2020, the Tigray region in the north of Ethiopia has been…
Tadeg and Shiferaw: Reflections on Ethiopia’s Media Law Reform
Mesenbet Assefa Tadeg, Addis Ababa University School of Law, and Solomon Shiferaw, Program Officer, International, Media Support (IMS)-Fojo Ethiopia, have published Reflections on Ethiopia’s Media Law Reform. Here is the abstract.Freedom of expression and the media is a lifeblood of…
Land Rights, Urban Agriculture and the Right to Food: The Case of Addis Ababa
Husen Tura (University of Eastern Finland), Land Rights, Urban Agriculture and the Right to Food: The Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Civil & Commercial L. Series (2020):This chapter investigates the economic and social crisis faced by displaced farmers due…
ICAO Annex 13 is the Latest Casualty of the MAX Issues…
On March 9, 2020, the Interim Investigation Report (“Report”) into the March 10, 2019, crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737-8 (MAX) was issued. The Ethiopian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (“Bureau”)138 page Report devotes approximately two pages to…
Weird Criminal Law Stories # 566: Not Much of a Prophet…
ETHIOPIA: He was not much of a prophet. A self-styled Ethiopian prophet wannabe was arrested after he failed to bring a dead man back to life. Getayawkal Ayele convinced a family that he could resurrect their relative, Belay Bitfu. He…
埃塞俄比亚《PPP法》简析:机遇还是挑战?
作为近十年来非洲经济发展最为迅速的经济体之一,埃塞俄比亚(“埃塞”)在经济领域取得的成就在全球范围内都备受瞩目。…
“Legitimate” Asylum Seeker Urges President Trump to Build that Wall!
Mahir Ahmed really wants you to know that he’s a “legitimate” asylum seeker. Not like those other people who are “deliberately breaking U.S. laws” and “jumping in line” ahead of good people like him. To confront this crisis, which has…