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The Simplest Step Ethiopians Can Take to Protect Themselves From Excessive Gov't Surveillance
BY JESSICA MCKENZIE
The Ethiopian government has at their disposal a formidable collection of surveillance technologies, and can intrusively monitor writers and activists at home and abroad. In late April the governmentarrested six independent...
Zone 9 journalists & bloggers among 2014 EHSNA honorees
Honorees of the Fourth Ethiopian Heritage Festival
Poet Laureate, Young Scholar and Journalists to be honored:
• An Ethiopian Poet Tsegaye Gebremedhin will be honored for his Contribution to the Advancement of Humanity
• The Zone Nine bloggers:...
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 was held on 14 June, a judge gave the police yet more time to complete their investigation and finally...
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 Cola Company for its unethical, arbitrary and unfair dealings with Ethiopia’s pop music superstar...
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...