Op-Ed In Ethiopia, a stranglehold on freedom

LA Times By MERON AHADU AND LULIT MESFIN When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Ethiopia last year, he met a young blogger named Natnael Feleke. When he returned a few months ago, Kerry found that Feleke, along with five other bloggers and three journalists, had been arrested — the latest in a long

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The World Tweets for Ethiopia’s Zone9 Bloggers on July 31

Global Voices By Ellery Roberts Biddle Free Zone9 Tumblr collage. Images used with permission. Join Global Voices bloggers for a worldwide, multilingual tweetathon in support of the ten bloggers and journalists facing terrorism charges in Ethiopia. The Global Voices community and our network of allies are demanding justice for these men and women, all of whom have

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Join the #FreeZone9Bloggers Tweetathon on May 14

Global Voices Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle Join Nigerian bloggers Blossom Nnodim (@blcompere) and Nwachukwu Egbunike (@feathersproject), along with Global Voices editor Ndesanjo Macha (@ndesanjo) from Tanzania for an Africa-wide tweetathon in support of the nine bloggers and journalists arrested in late April and currently being detained in Ethiopia. The Global Voices community and our network of friends

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አርበኝነት እና አርበኞች

Adebabay. Com (ኤፍሬም እሸቴ):- “ኲሉ ጻድቅ በጊዜ ርቱዕ” እንዲሉ የአገራችን ሊቃውንት “በደግ ጊዜ ሁሉ ጻድቅ ነው”። በሰላም ጊዜ ሁሉ ጀግና ነው። በደግ ዘመን ሁሉ ሃይማኖተኛ ነው። በጥጋብ ዘመን ሁሉ ቸር ነው። በደስታ ዘመን ሁሉ ወዳጅ ነው። በጤና ዘመን ሁሉ ጓደኛ ነው። ጊዜ ሲገለበጥስ? ስለ እምነቱ ሰው መከራ በሚቀበልበት ዘመን ሰማዕት ለመሆን የሚፈቅደው ጥቂት ነው። በጦርነት ወቅት

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