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Andrew Heavens

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Andrew grew up in various parts of Africa — Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt — before moving back to England to start a career as a journalist. He covered village fêtes for Somerset's Chard & Ilminster News, crime and car crashes for Wolverhampton's Express & Star and technology for the Financial Times. He has since worked as a journalist in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Khartoum, Sudan. He blogs and posts pictures at Meskel Square.

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18 June 2007

Ethiopian bloggers first to report shock guilty verdict

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopian bloggers were among the first to report on a court's shock decision to convict 38 opposition politicians of a range of serious charges including "outrages against the constitution" earlier this week.

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11 May 2007

Ethiopian bloggers pay tribute to jet crash reporter

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopian bloggers have flooded the internet with tributes to Associated Press reporter Anthony Mitchell who was one of 114 people killed when Kenyan Airways flight KQ507 crashed in southern Cameroon early on Saturday May 5. Anthony worked as a journalist in Ethiopia for five years and led the reporting of violence that broke out after the country’s controversial national elections in May 2005.

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3 May 2007

Ethiopian blog blockage sparks free speech debate

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Web watchdog the OpenNet Initiative this week confirmed that the Ethiopian government has been blocking scores of anti-government websites and millions of blogs hosted by Google’s Blogger service. Ethiopian bloggers responded to the news with a string of defiant posts, vowing to continue writing and beat the blockages.

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6 April 2007

Ethiopian bloggers turn undercover court reporters

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia's bloggers turned undercover court reporters over the past weeks, giving daily commentary on a controversial trial of more than 100 opposition politicians, campaigners and journalists. Leading opposition figures were...

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16 January 2007

Ethiopian bloggers fear for future in Somalia

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia is ending freedom of speech in Somalia. That was the blunt conclusion of undercover Ethiopian blogger Seminawork in his post Somali media under attack, as...

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2 January 2007

Bloggers warn of insurgency after Ethio-Somali war

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopian and Somali government troops drove Islamist forces out of their last stronghold in Somalia yesterday, just eight days after the start of a major military offensive. The apparently easy...

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