The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to restore the accreditation of three Reuters journalists who were barred from reporting after the news agency published a report alleging that Ethiopia was secretly training forces fighting in neighboring Sudan’s civil war. On 14 February, Reuters reported that the Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA) had “declined” to renew the journalists’ accreditation and had also revoked its accreditation to cover the 39th African Union summit of heads of state and government in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on February 14 and 15. “The revocation of Reuters’ credentials is the latest in a troubling pattern of repressive regulatory action against international and independent press in Ethiopia,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Muthoki Mumo. Following pressure, seven have resumed work but two correspondents, who cover the restive Tigray and Amhara regions, remain banned. CPJ did not immediately receive responses to its requests for comment sent via email to the EMA and via messaging app to the EMA’s deputy director general, Yonatan Tesfaye.

Source: Ethiopian News February 16, 2026 18:07 UTC