This time last year, the Mayor of City of Saint Paul declared an Oromo Week in this proclamation for Oromo Megafest proceedings. A year later, we have a festival full of fun and lots of conferences. To see what the Megafest is going to be like this year, click here. And for scheduals check Gadaa.com.
Since 2001, more than 100 journalists have left Ethiopia. Now, amid discussion that a new media law will be another impedance to achieve press freedom, there is no sign that this trend will change.
RAP 21 interviewed prominent African news website journalist Habtamu Dugo who left Ethiopia several months ago to live in New York City. His story, unfolding alongside the new media law in his home country, is as a testimony to the hostile environment journalists in Ethiopia work in. Though since his arrival in the United States he has again raised his voice on US national radio and television shows in defence of those still in Ethiopia grappling with injustice.
Read African Press Network’s interview with journalist Habtamu Dugo at RAP 21.
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