Ethiopia
Developments 8th April –
14th April
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12 Apr - IOM to Train Trainers to Fight Human
Trafficking - The International Organization for Migration
(IOM) will train officials from key government minorities
and NGO workers to build their institutional capacities to
fight human trafficking, the organization announced in a
press briefing yesterday. The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
and
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604120425.html
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11 Apr - Delegation Says Secured Assurance On
Future Ethiopia Campaign, Detained Members - After a series
of high-level meetings in Ethiopia last week, a delegation
of African religious and civil society leaders announced
that they received positive assurances on the future of the
Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) campaign in
Ethiopia and the legal cases facing two Ethiopian
coordinators of the campaign currently in detention, CIVICUS
desclosed in a media statment Monday. . The Daily Monitor
(Addis Ababa) and
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604110476.html
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Apr 10 - Boycott Not a Viable Solution –
Huddleston - The US still holds it a top priority that
detained opposition leaders be released. It however does not
consider the boycotting of the ongoing process as a viable
solution to the current political situation in Ethiopia,
Vickie Huddleston, the Charge d'Affaires of the US Embassy
here, said on Wednesday.
www.ethiopianreporter.com and
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604100127.html
Eritrea
Developments 8th April – 14th April
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Apr 10 -
National Association of the Blind Conduct Workshop - The
Eritrean National Association of the Blind conducted a
workshop from 8 to 10 April on education and ways of
teaching. The issues raised included Braille lessons,
enabling persons who are visually-impaired and the ones with
normal sight capacity to follow lessons in schools on equal
footing, psychological pressure and its cure, as well as
community participation and others.
www.shabait.com and
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604101270.html
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