(MENAFN- SomTribune)
Ethiopia has been cited as one of the worst jailers of journalists in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
According to the committee, the conflict that broke out in November 2020 in northern Ethiopia has accelerated the deterioration of press freedom and wiped out the progress seen when Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018.
As of 1 December – the date of the organisation's annual census – 16 Ethiopian journalists were imprisoned, putting Ethiopia on a par with ultra-repressive neighbouring Eritrea, the CPJ said in a statement received by AFP on Tuesday, August 02, even though only eight reporters are still in prison.
“The conflict between the federal government and rebel forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has unleashed a media crackdown that has extinguished the glimmer of hope ignited by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's early reforms” in what was“one of the most censored countries in the world” when the TPLF ruled Ethiopia between 1991 and 2018, CPJ said.
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