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April 6th, 2007

Ethiopian bloggers turn undercover court reporters

Andrew Heavens · 09:19 · Sub-Saharan Africa

lingua → bn

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 arrested and charged with attempted genocide, treason and a range of other serious offences in the months following the country's last ... 3 comments · read »

January 16th, 2007

Ethiopian bloggers fear for future in Somalia

Andrew Heavens · 08:04 · 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 news came through that Somalia's Ethiopia-backed Transitional Government had shut down independent radio stations and even closed the offices of the ... 8 comments · read »

January 2nd, 2007

Bloggers warn of insurgency after Ethio-Somali war

Andrew Heavens · 06:49 · Sub-Saharan Africa

lingua → zhs · zht

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 victory, however, did little to appease the region's bloggers, many of whom have been against the confrontation since the start. What has ... 4 comments · read »

December 23rd, 2006

Somali-Ethiopia conflict looms over Ethiopian blogosphere

Andrew Heavens · 05:58 · Sub-Saharan Africa

War and rumours of war dominated the Ethiopian blogosphere this week as reports came in of bloody clashes between Ethiopian and Islamist troops in northern Somalia. Accounts of the conflict from the mainstream media have so far been fragmentary and often contradictory. GlobalVoices' own Ethan Zuckerman summed up the confusion in ... 3 comments · read »

November 28th, 2006

Ethiopia's bloggers disappear again

Andrew Heavens · 11:19 · Sub-Saharan Africa

lingua → zht · zhs

The bulk of Ethiopia's bloggers disappeared from Ethiopian computer screens for the second time in seven months this week. All sites hosted by the popular Blogspot platform stalled when internet users tried to log on to them through their Ethiopian Telecom Corp dial-up connections. The small stable of anti-government blogs hosted ... 7 comments · read »

November 8th, 2006

Ethiopian bloggers take on female genital mutilation

Andrew Heavens · 13:18 · Sub-Saharan Africa

The highly sensitive subject of female genital mutilation dominated much of the Ethiopian blogosphere over the past week. The sudden interest was sparked by news that an Ethiopian man had been jailed for 10 years in the US for aggravated battery and cruelty to children after prosecutors claimed he had used ... 5 comments · read »