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…
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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…
Tagged with: #pressfreedom, #RightsMedia, 2013, a review, Al-Jazeera, Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, Egypt, Ethiopia, IWMF, journalists in prison, Journalists killed, press freedom, Reeyot Elemu, RSF, Turkish journalists
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Posted in Print
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.…
Tagged with: 16th century castles, Abyssinia, Addis Ababa, Arat Kilo, Bahir Dar, coffee, ehtnographic museum, Ethiopia, Federal Republic of Ethiopia, Gondar, Harar, Hotel Taitu, Lalibela, lion of judah, lucy, macchiatos, martyrs museum, national museum, Piazza, Red terror, rock-hewn churches, the Derg regime
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Posted in op-ed
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