In Ethiopia, mass detention signals shrinking press freedom
Twenty-two media employees have been arrested across Ethiopia this year alone.
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Twenty-two media employees have been arrested across Ethiopia this year alone.
National Statement by Ambassador Byrne Nason at the Arria-formula Meeting of the Security Council on Protection of Journalists, called by Ireland.
The Ethiopian Media Authority has revoked the accreditation of "The Economist" reporter Tom Gardner, for allegedly failing "to live standards of conduct for journalists."
Than he'd bargained for. what followed involved a police diving team, some archaeologists, and a day off school, as simon marks explains. 15—year—old tom has a keen eye for history. one day, while tom was wading in the river stour, he spotted something extraordinary. i found what looked like the edge of an old leather boot and that is what i thought it was going to be, and i pulled it out and saw the tops of two eye sockets. and then i showed it to mum, and we thought, yeah, that's a human skull. we were quite concerned about it. we'd found it on a saturday, we knew that we probably needed...
Bournemouth university. it was a sort of running joke that i was bossing everyone around, leading the police diving team, telling them where to look. when the police were satisfied it wasn't a crime scene, it was over to the archaeologists. this was likely to be at least centuries old and the radiocarbon dates have borne that out, with a date of somewhere between ad 400 and 600. but this is a period for which we don't know very much. he's a smart young man and the most important thing is that tom and his mum did the right thing and informed the coroner. the skull is likely to go to the county ...