It was one of the few remaining independent voices in Ethiopia. But one by one, the editors of Addis Neger have quietly slipped out of the country, fleeing from the imprisonment that they expected at ...

Use a sledgehammer to smash a butterfly! That is the exquisite art of war unleashed on Ethiopia's independent press by the dictatorship of Meles Zenawi today. The latest near-casualties in Zenawi's ...

Press-freedom groups are expressing concern about the state of Ethiopia's independent media as the country prepares for national elections One of Ethiopia's leading weekly newspapers has shut down and ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the arrests of a total of nine journalists and bloggers at ...

IPI regrets tragic loss of one of Ethiopia's leading independent newspapers six months before the May 2010 general elections. (IPI/IFEX) – VIENNA, 7 December 2009 – Three editors of independent ...

The highly disputed charges against Ethiopia's sensational singer Tewodros Kassahun, fondly called by his fans Teddy Afro, appears to take a different twist this week. His attorney, Million Assefa, ...

More than ten journalists have been imprisoned in Ethiopia since June 2011 and according to the Committee to Protect Journalists about 25% of exiled journalists in Africa are from Ethiopia, making the ...

Jailed Ethiopian dissident blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega is the winner of Pen America's PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award for his endeavor for freedom of expression in an extremely ...

The Wikileaks cable discussed the Addis Neger newspaper which has subsequently closed Ethiopian reporter Argaw Ashine has told the BBC he has fled his country because he was cited in a US diplomatic ...

Meles takes particular exception to a U.S. diplomat's comments about Ethiopia's ethnic policies Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi over the weekend rejected U.S. criticism of several of his ...