Ethiopia cancels Addis Ababa master plan after Oromo protests [BBC]
Ethiopia’s government has abandoned plans to expand the boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa, which have caused months of deadly protests.
Demonstrations by people from the Oromo ethnic group have been sparked by fears that Oromo farmers...
Ethiopia silences its critics with a deadly crackdown on dissent [washingtonpost]
By Editorial Board
IN THE latest chapter of Ethiopia’s escalating authoritarianism, young people, journalists and musicians have been the targets of the ruling regime’s quest to silence political dissent. For several weeks, students from...
'They wanted me to say I was wrong': Freed Ethiopian journalist on why 1,500 days in jail failed to silence her
CPJ
Reeyot Alemu, an Ethiopian journalist who worked for the independent weeklyFeteh, spent almost 1,500 days in prison after being arrested in June 2011 andcharged with terrorism in 2012. She was released unexpectedly in July.
In interviews...
Inside Ethiopia's Self-Defeating Crackdown on Oromo Musicians [GlobalVoices]
Written byEndalk
While journalists and bloggers remain the primary targets of state repression in Ethiopia, musicians that don’t jive with state propaganda also take the heat.
Hawi Tezera, an ethnic Oromo singer, was reportedly beaten,...
Message from Bekele Nega, OFC's General Secretary who was placed under house arrest... [Jawar Mohammed]
Dear All,
This morning, on my way to work, 4 men in civilian clothes greeted me by my name; identified themselves as ‘police’ and asked me to get in a car parked next to where they stopped me. When I refused, they grabbed me by my arms left...
