INVESTIGATION STALLS IN CASE OF NINE DETAINED JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS

Nine journalists who were arrested on 25 and 26 April continue to be detained pending trial. When the latest detention hearing in their case...

Why I am boycotting Ȼoca Ȼola [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Coca Cola is NOT the real thing Diaspora Ethiopians are expressing their outrage on social and online media and calling for a boycott of Coca...

What’s Up Africa – African Comedy News show does a skit about Zone 9...

Ethiopia has a bad reputation when it comes to press freedom. But is that accurate? Are the latest arrests of six bloggers and three...

Somalis in Ethiopia – in pictures

theguardian Using double exposure photography, Leikun Nahusenay documents life in Jijiga, the capital of the Somali region of Ethiopia. Addis Rumble repor Leikun Nahusenay is a...

Yemen’s traffickers run torture camps often with cooperation of government officials

Belkis WilleJune 10, 2014 14:04 Commentary: Migrants trying to reach Saudi border are held for money and face unimaginable horrors. SANAA, Yemen — Late one night...

Ethiopian journalist branded a ‘terrorist’ and locked up for 18 years wins 2014 Golden...

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...