Fly, Ethiopia, Fly…[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“What if they were really set free?”
That was the question The Economist asked in the headline of its article last week about Ethiopians.
Its response...
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...
‘They wanted me to say I was wrong’: Freed Ethiopian journalist...
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...
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,...
The Dam-Nation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Last week, before the ink had dried on the “new agreement” on the so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian President General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi toldEgyptians during...
Message from Bekele Nega, OFC’s General Secretary who was placed under...
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...
Ethiopia arrests second journalist in a week, summons Zone 9 bloggers...
Nairobi, December 27, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Ethiopia to release the editor-in-chief of Negere Ethiopia online newspaper, Getachew Shiferaw,...
The “End of the Story” for the T-TPLF in Ethiopia? [Professor...
The obituary and epitaph for the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Liberation Front (T-TPLF) was written last year by Bereket Simon, the former “communication minister”...
