Premieres Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. As Ethiopia's largest Chinese-run industrial park attempts an ambitious expansion, three women find themselves at the heart of a ...

(Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government’s systematic repression of independent media has created a bleak landscape for free expression ahead of the May 2015 general elections, Human Rights Watch ...

After years of repression, Ethiopia’s media is free — and fanning the flames of ethnic tension. April 21, 2019. A man walks by a newsstand in Addis Ababa, the capital.

Analysis - The current media system in Ethiopia has yet to yield the desired results of promoting diversity, openness, responsiveness and autonomy ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — It started over the weekend, when social media applications on Ethiopian phones and computers stopped working. Then, on Monday afternoon, the entire Internet shut down ...

Ethiopia’s media landscape is facing many challenges. Our project manager looks at how we are supporting public interest media in the country. It has been just two years since Ethiopia proudly ...

Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook , Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency ...

Widespread tensions caused by a rift within Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian church have resulted in the suspension of access to social media platforms including TikTok, Facebook and Telegram.

Ethiopia's law enforcement operation in the northern part of Ethiopia was distorted and at best misrepresented in reputable media outlets in the West. Tibebe Samuel, who is the Executive Director ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- President Barack Obama urged Ethiopia's leaders Monday to curb crackdowns on press freedom and political openness as he began a visit that human rights groups say ...

The journalists could face seven to 15 years behind bars for violating Ethiopia's state of emergency and anti-terrorism law, federal police Inspector Tesfaye Olani told state media.