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March 2014

Ethiopia: Letter – to All Human Beings Who Are Human – By Journalist Wubushet Taye (Zeway Prison)

“Discussing these types of issues is forbidden,” said the warder rudely and added, “You are only allowed to discuss family matters”. You might suspect that these words were spoken by one of our beloved mother Ethiopia’s prison officers. However, they are actually taken from Maxim Gorky’s 1906 story Mother (page 102). The story was written

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Ethiopian journalists languish in prison

Government in Addis Ababa refuses to release award-winning journalists jailed under Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. As Al Jazeera presses ahead with its campaign to free its journalists detained in Egypt, nine Ethiopian journalists who are receiving less attention continue to languish in prison, held on trumped-up charges of terrorism, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect

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Hagos: The first class and the first citizen in Ethiopia (part 2).

Since I posted an article on how knowing a figurative Hagos back in Ethiopia will make your life much easier, I have been getting comments that give me the initiative to come back with this piece which can be a sequel to the first one (http://zehabesha.com/hagos-your-guide-on-how-to-be-treated-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-ethiopia/). The punch line for most of these comments was

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