The Nobel laureate won plaudits early on for releasing imprisoned journalists. Today, his government depicts journalists as spies and traitors, and is accused of arresting, harassing and murdering them.  On International World Press Freedom Day, the world commemorated the sacrifices of media workers around the world and celebrated the advances made to enshrine press freedoms and permit journalists to freely carry out their critical work. Unfortunately, for Ethiopian press workers, it is only the needless sacrifices that continue to be commemorated, as 2024 marks yet another year of backpedalling on press freedom. It is in this spirit that the Ethiopian … Continue reading In Abiy’s Ethiopia, 200 journalists have been arrested since 2019