Ethiopia: Media Being Decimated [HRW]
Legal, Policy Reforms Crucial Prior to May Elections
(Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government’s systematic repression of independent media has created a bleak landscape for free expression ahead of the May 2015 general elections, Human Rights...
MLK: “When Will You Be Satisfied?”[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [MLK] gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in August 1963, he asked the “devotees of civil rights” a simple rhetorical question: “When will you be satisfied?”
One of his answers was particularly poignant....
Exposed: Prof. Constantinos Berhe has two fake degrees [By Abebe Gellaw]
A lengthy Addis Voice investigation can reveal that Dr. Constantinos Berhe, a professor of public policy at the Addis Ababa University (AAU) and a key operative of the ruling TPLF-led regime, obtained two fake degrees from a bogus university....
British MPs to visit Ethiopia in bid to secure release of Andy Tsege [THE INDEPENDENT]
JONATHAN OWEN
A delegation of British MPs will visit Ethiopia next month in a bid to secure the release of Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a British father of three who is under a death sentence.
Mr Tsege, 59, a leading critic...
January 14 hearing: Rudeness by police towards family members [Zone9ers'trial']
Families and friends of the jailed bloggers and journalists waited under a burning sun. It was time for the 15th trial at Lideta High Court.
As usual there was not enough space in the court room. Most family members, friends, journalists...
Ethiopia: opposition finds challenges in getting local media coverage [Article 19 East Africa]
Faced with a tightly government controlled media, limited internet access and low circulation of newspapers, Ethiopia’s opposition has been forced to seek alternative ways of disseminating its message to the electorate in preparation for the...
Andargachew Tsgie Before the T-TPLF Inquisition? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Cirque d’Andargachew” presented by the Ringling T-TPLF Brothers
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) is often credited with the observation that one should “judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
Voltaire also wisely...