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Popular news site suspended arbitrarily in Ethiopia

By assistante Afrique

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the sudden withdrawal of a popular news website’s licence yesterday in Ethiopia – the latest escalation in a crackdown on press freedom in which many journalists have been arrested or deported. The crackdown is without precedent since Abiy Ahmed became prime minister and marks the end of the honeymoon between Abiy and the media.Yesterday’s latest victim was Addis Standard, a news website that is visited by several million peo

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