The Zone 9 Bloggers are Free: but Ethiopia Still Thinks Digital Security is Terrorism...

The last of the Zone 9 Bloggers are finally free from jail, after nearly 18 months of detention for simply speaking out online. All...

Can the T-TPLF Stop the Famine in Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

It is a big international secret that Ethiopia today is in the middle of a Biblical famine. For the second time since 1984-85! Last week, the...

Foreign Minister dictates orders to VOA at night [By Abebe Gellaw]

The stormy relationship between the Voice of America (VOA) and the TPLF-led Ethiopian government has recently taken a strange twist after Foreign Minister Dr....

Review: ‘Difret’ Confronts Sexism in Ethiopia [nytimes]

By NICOLAS RAPOLDOCT When an Ethiopian girl who survives abduction and rape in “Difret” finds safe haven with her lawyer, you may not expect the...

Eskinder Nega wins PEN Canada One Humanity award at 36th International Festival of Authors

TORONTO, Oct. 19, 2015 /CNW/ - The Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega will receive PEN Canada's One Humanity Award on the opening night of the...

A Government-in-Exile for Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Foreword to a “government-in-exile for Ethiopia” A few weeks ago, I gave an interview to an Ethiopian civic group on the topic of “government in...