By PEN Canada. The Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega will receive PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award on the opening night of the 36th International Festival of Authors (IFOA 36). The award, valued at $5,000, is presented at PEN’s annual gala to a writer whose work...
BBC. Four Ethiopian bloggers who were detained in April 2014 have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a court in the capital Addis Ababa. The decision means that terror charges have been dropped against all nine of the so-called Zone 9 bloggers, after five were...
By Belinda Luscombe: Time Magazine Aberash Bekele, the subject of Difret, Angelina Jolie\’s new movie, talks to Time magazine about her life as a child bride who killed her would-be husband. In 1997, when you were 14, you killed a man. Can you explain why? I was...
VM Sathish: Emirates 24 News Ethiopian consulate and community in the UAE held a special prayer service in Dubai for the young Ethiopian woman stabbed to death on a bus. Sebele Mekonen, who arrived in Dubai five years ago, had not gone home since, and now, her first...
(Nairobi) Human Rights Watch– Ethiopian authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a former World Bank translator and two other local activists charged under Ethiopia’s repressive counterterrorism law after trying to attend a workshop on food security...
