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Ethiopia in transition
News: Ethiopia tells local broadcasters to terminate airing foreign media programs
By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba, October 30/2021 – The Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA), the main regulatory body of broadcast media in Ethiopia, has ordered Ethiopian broadcasters that transmit programs from foreign media outlets to terminate doing so effective October 29. In a statement issued on October 29, Mohammed Idriss, …
News: US “gravely concerned” about election environment as lack of security, irregularities besiege the process; calls for post-election inclusive dialogue
By Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan Addis Abeba, June 12/2021 – In a statement released last night by the State Department, the United States said it was “gravely concerned about the environment under which these upcoming elections are to be held,” and cited “the detention of opposition politicians, harassment of independent media, …
News: Egypt, Sudan Foreign Affairs & Irrigation ministers accuse Ethiopia of being ‘intransigent’, promise more pressure to reach agreement before GERD’s second filling
By Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan Addis Abeba, June 10, 2021 – Following an official one-day visit to Sudan by Egyptian ministers of Foreign Affairs and Irrigation and a meeting with senior officials in Sudan, the two sides issued a joint statement on the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and …
