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Photo Source: Seenaa Solomon YouTube Video Source : Global Voices Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were charged in Ethiopia in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and ‘uploading them on YouTube’. The group members were arrested in December 2016 and were held in detention without charges until last month. Among those facing charges is Seenaa Solomon, a young female singer who critics say is a rising music tale

Photo: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters (c) New Delhi Times - Ethiopia In Ethiopia’s state of emergency, there has been a massive crackdown and there have massive protests too which have been curbed although at the cost of increasing militancy in the Amhara region. In April 2017, the government-sponsored Ethiopian Human Rights Commission reported that at least 669 people had been killed during the political unrest in the country since late 2015, including 63 security personnel. In anoth

Photo: Awramba Times Source : OPRIDE.COM (OPride) – On June 27, Ethiopia’s council of ministers approved a new draft law on Oromia state’s long-neglected “special interest” over Addis Ababa. Far from clarifying an already vague, 26-years-old constitutional provision, the new proclamation has drawn the ire of Oromo activists. On the surface, the new law attempts to articulate the intent behind four broad provisions in the Ethiopian constitution’s article 49 (5), which states,