Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
Meles Zenawi: trampling on information rights
Mar 19th
SOCEPP, 19 March 2010: With the same arrogance that Meles Zenawi has often expressed when he dismisses all calls for the release of political prisoners ("there are none in
The jamming of VOA broadcasts in Amharic
Mar 19th
By Peter Heinlein: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says he is prepared to order jamming of VOA broadcasts in Amharic, the country’s main official language. Mr. Meles compared VOA Amharic to the hate media that incited the Rwanda genocide. Read More…
Ethiopians still expect apologies from Italy
Mar 18th
EPRP: The Vatican’s history revising action of bestowing sainthood on the Pope who backed Fascist Italia’s brutal invasion of Ethiopia and the repeated attempt by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to whitewash the horrible Italian invasion of Ethiopia by the troops of Mussolini makes it imperative for Ethiopians to restate the truth and to demand a formal apology from the Vatican and the Italian government for crimes against humanity committed against the people of Ethiopia. Read More…
The BBC was right to report claims of aid abuse in Ethiopia
Mar 18th
Edward Girardet: Everything was elaborate while the show was on, but the moment one left it was a different matter. Once I visited a bustling "government displaced centre" near the Sudanese border. Twenty minutes after leaving I returned because I had forgotten my jacket. The camp was empty. It had been a complete charade in a bid to solicit international sympathy and funding. Read More…
The Charity Business and the Apoplexy of Sir Bob Geldof
Mar 17th
Hama Tuma: The Tigrean Front received hundreds of Scania, Volvo, 
Mercedes and Isuzu trucks and
Four media houses crushed with lethal fines
Mar 18th
IFEX: The Ethiopian government is settling political scores against journalists by slamming four newspaper publishing companies with crippling fines in reprisal for their coverage of the disputed 2005 elections, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Read More…
