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What's Up Africa - African Comedy News show does a skit about Zone 9 Bloggers -
Ethiopia has a bad reputation when it comes to press freedom. But is that accurate? Are the latest arrests of six bloggers and three journalists (symbolised by the #FreeZone9Bloggers campaign) a symptom of a larger crackdown on the freedom of...
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
Somalis in Jijiga, the capital of the Somali region of Ethiopia. Photograph: Leikun...
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 last fall, I sat on a half-rotten mattress in a desolate square in the northern...
Ethiopian journalist branded a 'terrorist' and locked up for 18 years wins 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom (William Turvill)
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 been jailed on at least seven occasions in his country. On the latest...
''Ayzoh Eskinder! Ayzoh!'' - Martin Schibbye’s acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega
Acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, Torino, Italy, 9 June 2014.
Ladies and gentlemen – members of the press.
I really wish I did not have to do this.
This morning, I thought,...
Who is afraid of the E(thiopian) bloggers? (Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam)
The “dean” of independent Ethiopian journalists and blogger extraordinaire, Eskinder Nega, is serving an 18 year sentence for blogging. The late Meles Zenawi personally ordered Eskinder’s arrest and even determined his sentence. Meles...