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Andargachew Tsige Detained in Yemen

Top official of the opposition Ginbot 7 Movement, Andargachew Tsige,has been detained by Yemeni officials while transiting via Yemen, ESAT Television has reported.ESAT quoted the Ginbot 7 as saying that there have been ongoing undisclosed discussions...

The staged ‘hearing’ of the three bloggers Abel, Befeqadu and Mahlet concluded with another appointment for 6th time.

A Brief hearing yet very late start The dramatic Sunday morning hearing was adjourned before it even started a the court registrar did not show up for the hearing but yet again set to continue as the registrar popped up out of nowhere. The judge...

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:...

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 under fire for dropping Teddy Afro’s World Cup Anthem (EMF)

By staff writer – 4 June 2014 (EMF) A large number of Diaspora community is urging East African nations to stop drinking Coca-Cola, in protest for Coca-Cola’s outrageous action to drop Teddy Afro’s World Cup Anthem. Negative campaigning...

Press Release from Teddy Afro On the Ethiopian Version of the World Cup Anthem.

Teddyafro.info Ethiopian Version of the World Cup Anthem Over the past months, we have been under intense pressures with flooding requests to reveal our positions regarding the relationship that exist between Coca Cola and the widely rumoured...

Light at the end of the tunnel for the “Dark Continent”? (Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam)

(Author’s note: This commentary appeared on  Pambazuka.org  on May 29, 2014 as part of a mid-century outlook on possible scenarios in Africa. I make my “predictions” debating myself as a political scientist and a defense lawyer.) Is...