Author’s note: This is Part I in a forthcoming series relating my conversations with Reeyot Alemu and her amazing story in the defense of press freedom...
In March, 1896, Ethiopian forces under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II surprised the world by defeating an Italian Army sent to conquer the...
Jawar Mohammed
Today high ranking military, intelligence and federal police officers held emergency security meeting with President of Oromia, Muktar Kedir, at his office located...
Killings, Detention of Protesters Enter Fourth Month
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces are violently suppressing the largely peaceful protests in the Oromia region that began...
(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only)
My first “Message” from 2013
This is my second special message to Ethiopia’s “Cheetah Generation”, Ethiopia’s young people, in three...
Division and fear are the age-old tools of tyrants; unity and peaceful coordinated action the most powerful weapons against them.
Frightened and downtrodden for so...
















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