“The pressure has made Ethiopian journalists contemplate quitting their jobs or fleeing to neighbouring countries,” Al Jazeera’s Zecharias Zelalem wrote yesterday. And Ethiopia shot up forty places on Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. Befekadu Hailu, the editor of a weekly, told Mumo that he didn’t know whether the flowering of press freedom would last. “It needs collective effort of the media, civil society, and government to save it from falling into the vicious cycle.”The caution would quickly prove prudent. (By one count, Dawit became the first Ethiopian journalist killed in relation to their work since 1998, though CPJ is still investigating the circumstances of his death.)

Source: Ethiopian News June 01, 2022 19:44 UTC