The case of persecuted journalist Temesgen Desalegn, imprisoned on trumped up charges of defamation, deserves further attention.
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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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South Sudan will descend to a perpetual Hobbesian “war of all against all,” exposing the moral bankruptcy of the West again, not to mention the colossal human toll.
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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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“When an artist mourns and eulogizes the death of a brutal dictator, is he denying the suffering that this despotic hero inflicted upon the audience?” Mesfin Negash considers this dilemma in the latest Ethiopiques column.
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Journalist Mesfin Negash examines the effect that PM Meles Zenawi’s death has had on Ethiopia. Negash highlights how state media has manufactured the image of national grief, blurring the lines between private and public mourning.
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