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“When you think of Africa, what are the first three things that come to mind?” This is the first question I was asked when I began working at Tsehai Publishers at the beginning of the semester. Like I’m sure most of us would, I had trouble...

The trial is re-adjourned for 4th of November 2014 for the 10th times in a row. In an opening defense statement the bloggers and the journalist have argued that the charges presented them were not procedural and have serious breaches of their...

Document warning that aid programme posed ‘high’ risk to human rights deleted from Government website as £27 million aid scheme axed Britain has given £1 billion in aid, including around £70 million for “governance and...

31/10/2014 Within the last one year several young women and men have been unjustly detained and silenced. Among these are several journalists and political leaders, as well as the zone-nine bloggers. I say unjustly detained because none of them...

Washington, D.C. (United States)  October 30, 2014 The United States is deeply concerned by the October 27 sentencing of Ethiopian journalist Temesgen Desalegn to three years in prison for “provocation and dissemination of inaccurate information.”...

Amnesty International says 5,000 people tortured, raped and ‘disappeared’ Over the last three years the UK Government has given Ethiopia £1 billion It pocketed £261.5 million in 2012 and £284.4 million in 2013 By VANESSA ALLEN...