CPJ, Rights Groups Slam Dawit Kebede; NED Stops Funding

By Tamru Ayele, THE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Oakland Institute (OI) and Survival International (SI) have strongly rejected and condemned Dawit Kebede’s recent claims against several global advocacy groups. The groups said such an irresponsible and unsubstantiated allegation that has no factual basis is not expected of someone who claims to be a journalist […]

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CPJ Press Freedom ‘Hero’ Says Right Groups are Tools for Western Hegemony

By Tamiru Ayele, ETHIOPIAN journalist and former CPJ “press freedom hero” have accused the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as being one of the tools for imposing “Western hegemonic ambition”. Dawit Kebede, managing editor of Awramba Times, who was one of the four recipients of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 2010, launched the scathing […]

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Ethiopia ‘Blocks’ Al Jazeera Websites

Traffic to English and Arabic websites has plummeted since the network aired coverage of protests in August last year. By Aljazeera, Al Jazeera’s English and Arabic websites are reported to have been blocked in Ethiopia, raising fresh fears that the government is continuing its efforts to silence the media. Though the authorities in Addis Ababa […]

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Ethiopia forced out more Journalists to Exile than any other Country in the World since 2001: CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Since 2001, more journalists were forced to leave their homeland in Ethiopia than any other country in the world, according to a survey published by the New York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). According to CPJ, from August 1, 2001 to May 31, 2011 some 649 journalists were forced […]

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