Ethiopian drone strikes on a school in its Amhara region has killed at least 27 students! While a major civil war ongoing in his country, Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed is on a ‘royal’ visit to Kenya.
#Ethiopia 🇪🇹 CPJ calls on President Taye Atske Selassie to uphold Ethiopia’s “historic commitment” to “upholding human dignity” and “justice” that he referred to in his speech to #UNGA on Wednesday by immediately releasing five journalists who have spent more than three years in detention awaiting trial.
Gobeze Sisay, Meskerem Abera, Genet Asmamaw, Dawit Begashaw, and Abay Zewdu have been detained since 2023 on terrorism charges linked to their reporting on the conflict in the Amhara region. In August, the five journalists were pressured to sign apology letters admitting responsibility for the conflict in exchange for their release. They refused.
CPJ also calls on authorities to demonstrate these principles and their commitment to "free peoples" by ending the pressure on independent media through the revocation of journalists’ credentials, expulsion of foreign outlets, and raids on newsrooms.
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A sacred book looted by British forces from an Ethiopian king has prompted an intense ownership dispute after it resurfaced in a private sales catalogue nearly 160 years after it was stolen.
Here's what we know: https://t.co/IM7FIUPwuH
Happy Ethiopian New Year from all of us at Ethiopian! May this year bring you new connections, exciting adventures, and endless success. #EthiopianAirlines#EthiopianNewYear
In Wellega, Oromia region of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed’s Oromo Prosperity Party security forces and armed Oromo militia continue massacring Amhara and other non-Oromo civilians, burning homes and churches. Unless urgently stopped, this risks becoming all-out genocide. @hrw
Ethiopia: It has been reported that large numbers of ethnic Amhara and Tigrayan civilians are being killed , and their homes are being burned by state forces in the Wollega areas of Oromia
Ethiopia: It’s reported that three civilian Amhara men—Temesgen Getachew, Yitagesu Asegde, and Gizaw Girma—were forced off a public bus in Abeshge Woreda, Gurage Zone, and brutally killed by regime forces after being accused of being “Fano members''
Ethiopia: Regime-backed mass killings of Amhara communities in the Arsi Zone of Oromia Region reportedly continue. More than 50 Amharas have been killed, hundreds displaced, and an Ethiopian Orthodox church burned.
Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, stands deeply divided, facing violent ethnic conflicts, restrictions on free speech and crackdowns on dissent.
As the country heads toward a national election, the leader once celebrated as a healer is now viewed by critics as the main driver of these schisms. https://t.co/spNIFvefxi
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Three years ago, on May 6, Voice of Amhara journalist Gobeze Sisay was arrested in #Djibouti and transferred to #Ethiopia under unclear circumstances in a sweeping crackdown on reporting about conflict in the Amhara region. He remains behind bars on terrorism charges that carry a potential death sentence.
Gobeze is due to present his defense this month.
Gobeze’s continued detention, along with three other journalists also accused of terrorism — Genet Asmamaw, Meskerem Abera, and Dawit Begashaw — underscores the risks facing independent media in Ethiopia and the criminalization of reporting on matters of public interest.
@pressfreedom calls for Gobeze’s immediate release and for Ethiopian authorities to stop criminalizing journalism.
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