The assassination of Gezahegn Gebremeskel: Who killed the Ethiopian activist? (M&G)
Simon Allison
Zagbo Pascal saw it happen. He was on the corner of Kerk and Polly streets in downtown Johannesburg, hanging out with some friends, when a single gunshot rang out. It was 5pm on Saturday, April 21, still broad daylight, and the...
Ethiopian state of emergency must end, says journalist freed from jail (Reuters)
Jackson Njehia
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed should fulfill his pledge to expand political freedoms by lifting a state of emergency, said a journalist released in February after six years...
Memorandum No. 1: To PM Abiy Ahmed and Ethiopia’s Cheetahs/Abo Shemanes (Youth) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s note: In my last “commentary” (My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed), I promised to focus my future observations on issues and topics that will serve to promote peace, reconciliation, unity and the general well-being...
Ethiopia releases 11 journalists, politicians once again (Washington Post)
By Elias Meseret | AP
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Eleven journalists, politicians and bloggers in Ethiopia who were detained last month for allegedly displaying an outlawed flag and gathering in violation of a state of emergency have been released,...
