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Ethiopia’s “Terrorist” Journalists and Bloggers
NAIROBI, Kenya – A cursory glance at the headlines shows that Ethiopia has one of Africa’s fastest growing economies. But the noise generated by the hyperbolic international media is drowning out the critical voices. Political opposition is being strangled by the authorities as activists and journalists are arrested and thrown into jail at a dizzying…
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#PressFreedom in 2013: An Overview
211 journalists were jailed worldwide in 2013, following the highest number ever recorded the previous year: 232, says the press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ. These statistics prove the state of press freedom around the world has deteriorated quite drastically over these last two years. Three countries: Turkey, Iran and China, account…
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Dreams of Abyssinia: A ‘forenji’ in the former Ethiopian Empire
Forenji is an Ethiopian word, in the Amharic language, which means foreigner. I arrived in Addis Ababa on Dec. 20, due to spend my entire Christmas holiday traveling to the north of the country and back before New Year’s Eve – Dec. 31. At Hotel Taitu, located in Addis’ historic Piazza district, I checked in and hit…
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Adam Bemma 