The Death of the Fourth Estate: Abiy Ahmed’s Government Pushes Ethiopia’s Independent Media Towards Extinction
By BINYAM DANIEL The decision to deny licence renewals to The Ethiopian Reporter marks another alarming escalation in the government’s campaign against independent journalism, exposing the widening gap between Abiy Ahmed’s promises of democratic reform and the reality of political censorship in Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s already battered independent media landscape has suffered another devastating blow after…