Regional Events
SOMALIA: CPJ joins five groups demanding editors release Print E-mail
By CPJ:Committee To Protect Journalists - Jun 28, 2005   
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Ethiopia:Crackdown Spreads Beyond Capital Print E-mail
By HRW: Human Rights Watch - Jun 15, 2005   
In the wake of last weeks election-related protests, the Ethiopian governments crackdown on potential sources of unrest has spread throughout the country, Human Rights Watch said today. While international attention has focused on events in Addis Ababa, opposition members and students in other cities are increasingly at risk of arbitrary arrest and torture.
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CPJ deplores harassment, censorship in Ethiopia Print E-mail
By CPJ: Committee To Protect Journalists - Jun 08, 2005   
The Committee to Protect Journalists today sent the following open letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, condemning the government's harassment of journalists covering the elections and the post-elections violence which has engulfed the capital.
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Unhappy Masses and the Challenge of Political Islam in the Horn of Africa Print E-mail
By Professor Said S. Samatar - Mar 24, 2005   
The last issue of "Regional Events" gave you a sample of seleda.com, an Ethiopian humor online magazine that specializes in heavy doses of irony and satire.  In this issue, we take you to Somalia, courtesy of wardheernews.com, where the subject is considerably more serious: political Islam.  The article is very provocative and controversial and, in our view, this kind of freedom of expression on this subject, is long overdue.  
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Seleda.com: A Website We Really, Really Like Print E-mail
By Awate Staff - Feb 25, 2005   
Normally, at Regional Events we tell you all the going-ons in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.  This time, we are just going to tell you to check out an Ethiopian website we really, really like that refuses to update itself (part of its charm.)  It is the irreverent Seleda.com. Here's a sample from the "humble editors" (there is a lot of inside information...and it helps if you understand Amharic.) Consider this our "people-to-people" dialogue, which VOA stole from us without any attribution...
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