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Zone 9 journalists & bloggers among 2014 EHSNA honorees

Honorees of the Fourth Ethiopian Heritage Festival Poet Laureate, Young Scholar and Journalists to be honored: • An Ethiopian Poet Tsegaye Gebremedhin will be honored for his Contribution to the Advancement of Humanity • The Zone Nine bloggers:...

INVESTIGATION STALLS IN CASE OF NINE DETAINED JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS

Nine journalists who were arrested on 25 and 26 April continue to be detained pending trial. When the latest detention hearing in their case was held on 14 June, a judge gave the police yet more time to complete their investigation and finally...

Why I am boycotting Ȼoca Ȼola [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Coca Cola is NOT the real thing Diaspora Ethiopians are expressing their outrage on social and online media and calling for a boycott of Coca Cola Company for its unethical, arbitrary and unfair dealings with Ethiopia’s pop music superstar...

Yemen’s traffickers run torture camps often with cooperation of government officials

Belkis WilleJune 10, 2014 14:04 Commentary: Migrants trying to reach Saudi border are held for money and face unimaginable horrors. SANAA, Yemen — Late one night last fall, I sat on a half-rotten mattress in a desolate square in the northern...

Ethiopian journalist branded a 'terrorist' and locked up for 18 years wins 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom (William Turvill)

Ethiopian journalist branded a ‘terrorist’ and locked up for 18 years wins 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom William Turvill 09 June 2014 Eskinder Nega (pictured) has been jailed on at least seven occasions in his country. On the latest...

''Ayzoh Eskinder! Ayzoh!'' - Martin Schibbye’s acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega

Acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, Torino, Italy, 9 June 2014. Ladies and gentlemen – members of the press. I really wish I did not have to do this. This morning, I thought,...

Coca-Cola Issues Statement Regarding Teddy Afro’s Version of FIFA World Cup Song -(Tadias Magazine)

By Tadias Magazine June 7th, 2014 New York — The Coca-Cola Company, headquartered in Atlanta, responded to queries regarding the unreleased, Ethiopian version of Coke’s FIFA World Cup song performed by Teddy Afro. Coca Cola confirmed that...

62 African migrants, crew drown off Yemen: UN

  Geneva (AFP) – Sixty migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the UN said Friday. “The tragedy is the largest single loss...