In this week’s “Ethiopiques” journalist Mesfin Negash examines the developing cult of personality around Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi whose image is posted everywhere around the country.
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In this week’s “Ethiopiques” column journalist Mesfin Negash examines the challenges and opportunities offered by the internet to activists in Ethiopia.
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In this week’s Ethiopiques column, journalist Mesfin Negash dissects the political actions of journalists Muntadar al-Zaidi and Abebe Gelaw. Gelaw verbally confronted Ethiopia’s Prime Minister at the recent G8 meeting in Chicago calling him a dictator.
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“Why do writers risk imprisonment or death for an idea?” In this week’s Ethiopiques journalist Mesfin Negash reflects on the risks faced by journalists, activists, and human rights defenders.
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Today the world will gather to mark the annual World Press Freedom Day in Tunisia where the Arab Spring was ignited. I am sure the government of Ethiopia will also “celebrate” the WPFD by organizing some kind of communist-style public drama.
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