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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, was reportedly beaten,...
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 the inauguration of a national farmland project, “I...
Message from Bekele Nega, OFC's General Secretary who was placed under house arrest... [Jawar Mohammed]
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 me to get in a car parked next to where they stopped me. When I refused, they grabbed me by my arms left...
Ethiopia arrests second journalist in a week, summons Zone 9 bloggers [cpj]
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, who was arrested on Friday, according to news reports.
“Ethiopia...
The “End of the Story” for the T-TPLF in Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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” and longtime sidekick of the late criminal mastermind of the T-TPLF,...
Ethiopia arrests two Journalists and Human Rights activist [AHRE]
In the last five days Ethiopia arrests two journalists in relation with the ongoing mass protest in Oromia region. Journalist Fekadu Mirkana, who works for the state-run broadcaster radio and tv, was arrested at his Addis Ababa home on 19 December...