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Ethiopia Shutters News Outlet With Scant Explanation

Ethiopia Shutters News Outlet With Scant Explanation Voice of America 17 Jul 2021, 08:05 GMT+10 Ethiopia s media regulator on Thursday revoked the license of the Addis Standard s publisher, forcing the monthly magazine and news website to cease operations immediately. The outlet s publisher, JAKENN Publishing, said in a statement that the Ethiopian Media Authority did not explain why it temporarily revoked the Addis Ababa media company s license. The regulator called the Addis Standard around noon Thursday and requested that an employee bring the license to an impromptu meeting, an Ethiopia-based journalist with knowledge of the situation told VOA. The journalist requested anonymity over security concerns.

Hundreds of Tigrayans detained in Ethiopian capital in recent weeks, witnesses say

Article content Lidia Girma, deputy head of Addis Ababa City Peace and Security department, told Reuters the government had acted against businesses connected to the TPLF. “It wasn’t random and has nothing to do with ethnicity. It was based on investigations,” she said. RESTAURANT WORKERS HELD A Tigrayan resident of Addis Ababa told Reuters his family restaurant had been shut down last week, and his younger brother and their 80-year-old father arrested along with 25 employees. They were released after two days, he said, requesting anonymity for safety reasons. A Tigrayan woman said police came to her house in Addis Ababa before dawn on July 1, searched it, and took her to a camp in the city’s Kality district that is usually used for vagrants where she said hundreds of Tigrayans were being held.

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