The governing party’s landslide victory in Ethiopia’s first elections since the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a mockery of the democratic process.
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Betre Yacob is currently in exile from Ethiopia for publishing articles exposing human rights conditions and corruption. Editorial intern Emily Durham spoke with Betre on exile, censorship, and freedom of speech conditions.
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In the fourteenth installment, editorial intern Emily Durham spoke with Betre Yacob, an Ethiopian journalist and the former president of the government-disbanded Ethiopian Journalists Forum.
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The battle that secured Ethiopia’s independence occupies only a small role in the country’s pop culture, just as Ethiopian works are underplayed in African literature as a whole.
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Actress Aster Bedane asked Ethiopia’s Chief of Staff: “Will you really transfer power through elections?” Ethiopia is set to hold its fifth General Election in May 2015, and international election observers have been banned.
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In Ethiopia, journalists are often presumed “guilty until proven innocent.” For his first column with Sampsonia Way, Chalachew Tadesse overviews the deterioration of Ethiopia’s press freedom.
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Each book on exiled shelves has a story besides the one between its covers: who bought it, and where, and when, and how it arrived in its current country.
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