Exiled journalists in risky places need helping hand
June 19, 2013 12:00 AM ET
It was well past mid-day in Eastleigh, a shanty district on the east side of Nairobi, Kenya. The billows of dust rising from the rock-scarred road showed a government that had long lost interest in the neighborhood. A young...
Ethiopian editor questioned over story on Meles' widow
May 15, 2013 4:08 PM ET
New York, May 15, 2013--Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa questioned an editor for several hours today in connection with a story published in October about the widow of the late Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, according to news reports....
Charges renewed against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen
February 8, 2013 2:30 PM ET
Nairobi, February 8, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the revival of criminal charges against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen Desalegn today in what appears to be a politicized court hearing designed to censor one of the few critical voices left...
Ethiopia should release journalists still in prison
September 11, 2012 5:13 PM ET
Nairobi, September 11, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Ethiopian government to set free six journalists in prison for their work, a day after Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were pardoned and released from...
Ethiopia frees prominent journalist, drops all charges
August 28, 2012 3:04 PM ET
New York, August 28, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today's decision by the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice to release the editor of a leading independent weekly from jail and drop all criminal charges against him. CPJ also calls...
In Ethiopia, Feteh editor jailed during trial
August 23, 2012 5:22 PM ET
New York, August 23, 2012--Ethiopian authorities must immediately release Temesghen Desalegn, editor of the leading weekly Feteh, who was ordered jailed today pending his trial on defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
In Meles' death, as in life, a penchant for secrecy, control
August 21, 2012 5:25 PM ET
Ethiopians awakened this morning to state media reports that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, 57, the country's leader for 21 years, had died late Monday in an overseas hospital of an undisclosed disease. Within seconds, Ethiopians spread the news on...
Ethiopians still looking for answers on Meles
July 30, 2012 4:33 PM ET
Since I published a blog last week on the lack of information about the health and whereabouts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, readers have deluged it with comments (over 175 as of today), reflecting the pent-up interest in the...