Aryn Baker, Time On the morning of July 27, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn welcomed Obama into Addis Ababa’s National Palace with the pomp and glory of an ancient empire that, unlike much of Africa, was not colonized by a European power until 1936. A...
The Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW) held its fourth international conference of Ethiopian women in the diaspora on March 7, 2015 at Sheraton hotel in Silver Spring Maryland. The theme of the conference was “The Role of Civil Society Organizations in...
Addis Ababa: July 9, 2015 (FBC) – Journalist Reyot Alemu has been freed yesterday after serving four years of a five year prison sentence. Reyot won an appeal at the Supreme Court against an initial 14 year sentence for terrorism charges at the 3rd Bench of the...
\”Photo courtesy of the Zone 9 blog\” Aljaazera. Five imprisoned Ethiopian bloggers and journalists have been released in Addis Ababa, after government prosecutors dropped the charges against them, Al Jazeera has learned. The bloggers and journalists, who...
CNN Money We know dictatorships spy on innocent people. And now we know where they buy their tools — from a tiny Italian company in Milan. It\’s called Hacking Team. And the world knows about it, because Hacking Team has been hacked. On Sunday, a massive...
Abel Wabela. Drawing by Melody Sundberg. Global Voices Online. In April 2014, nine bloggers and journalists were arrested in Ethiopia. Several of these men and women had worked with Zone9, a collective blog that covered social and political issues in Ethiopia and...
