Until recently, Ethiopia has been hailed as an African success story. After a decade of strong economic growth, the country has begun to shed its image as a famine-struck wasteland. But repression by Ethiopia’s authoritarian…
A leader of a Somali journalists' group speaks out on a country that has become a killing field for journalists. Somalia has been a failed state for more than 24-years, and the country's lengthy civil…
Security forces in the tiny east African nation of Djibouti have detained and released two local journalists as political tensions rise ahead of elections scheduled for April. Mohamed Ibrahim Waïss, a 41-year-old reporter for the opposition…