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Ethiopia: Stop harassing Eskinder Nega for his opinions - AMNESTY
Police in Addis Ababa this morning prevented journalist and former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, Eskinder Nega, from holding a press conference to announce plans for his new TV station, Senai. Police officers blocked the entrance...
Journalist and Author Daniel Gezahegn's Medical Fund
Ethiopian journalist and Author of Siwan book, Daniel Gezahegn is in a desperate and urgent need of kidney transplantation. Both of his kidneys are failing. He started his kidney dialysis this year. Due to his serious illness, Daniel was unable...
Ethiopia PM presses plan to return displaced people after violence - Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister on Thursday pursued a plan to return displaced people to their homes following ethnic violence, meeting communities who recently went home, as relief workers voiced fears that the initiative...
Ethiopia to try ex-spy chief, Getachew Assefa, in absentia - AfricaNews
Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaba
Ethiopia has formally charged a former intelligence chief widely reported to have superintended over systemic rights abuse during his tenure.
Getachew Assefa was fired by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in 2018 as part of...
Move fast and break things - Ethiopia Insight
by Mistir Sew
The Prime Minister’s tactics of populism, appeasement, and disruption have gone as far as they can in this complex political landscape
A few months after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed assumed office, a BBC journalist asked...
