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...
Journalists in exile 2012
June 19, 2012 12:01 AM ET
Crisis in East Africa Fifty-seven journalists fled their country in the past year, with Somalia sending the greatest number into exile. Journalists also fled Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Rwanda--mostly for Kenya and Uganda. Exiles in East Africa must grapple with...
Intimidation or imprisonment by 'democratic instruments'
December 8, 2011 12:00 AM ET
Three years ago, I met Minister Bereket Simon at his office at the center of Addis Ababa. I was with my colleague Abiye Teklemariam -- who was recently charged with terrorism, treason and espionage along with five other journalists,...
Ethiopian journalist ID'd in WikiLeaks cable flees country
September 14, 2011 5:01 PM ET
New York, September 14, 2011--U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks cited an Ethiopian journalist by name and referred to his unnamed government source, forcing the journalist to flee the country after police interrogated him over the source's...
In Ethiopia, anti-terrorism law chills reporting on security
June 24, 2011 11:02 AM ET
How can an Ethiopian reporter cover the activities of Ethiopia's leading opposition figure, Berhanu Nega, or an attack by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels without risking prosecution and a 20-year prison sentence? Such questions have haunted Ethiopian...
Attacks on the Press 2010: Internet Analysis
February 15, 2011 12:56 AM ET
Exposing the Internet's shadowy assailants by Danny O'Brien For the past decade, those who used the Internet to report the news might have assumed that the technological edge was in their favor. But online journalists now face more than just...