Ethiopia

Country Profile: Ethiopia
Background Ethiopia’s record on human rights and political openness took a turn for the worse after the legislative elections of May 2005. Though originally hailed by the U.S. State Department as “a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in...
- Posted on 30/Sep/2009; tagged in Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: April 27, 2012
ONI releases its annual "Year in Review" report, which details all the most significant cases of Internet censorship and surveillance around the world. Among the most high-profile controversies were the SOPA/PIPA debates in the US Congress and European software firms' cooperation...
- Posted on 27/Apr/2012; tagged in Asia, China, Ethiopia, Europe, Political filtering, Russia, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Ethiopian News Website Blocked
The leading independently-owned Ethiopian news website The Reporter has been blocked for the past five days, as Reporters Without Borders noted on their blog. Since April 21 at around 4:30, the website has been inaccessible to anyone within the country....
- Posted on 27/Apr/2012; tagged in Ethiopia, Political filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Take-down
ONI Blog: The OpenNet Initiative Presents New Findings in Africa
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has released updated reports on Ethiopia and Zimbabwe and new reports on Uganda and Nigeria, where ONI tested for the first time in 2008 and 2009. All four profiles can be accessed at: http://opennet.net/research/regions/ssafrica. Many governments across sub-Saharan...
- Posted on 01/Oct/2009; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Ethiopia, Filtering tech and software, Nigeria, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Report: Internet Filtering in Ethiopia in 2006-2007
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Ethiopia. Download as PDF Overview Opponents of the current political regime have increasingly used online media to criticize the government, and Ethiopia has responded by implementing a filtering regime that blocks...
- Posted on 30/Sep/2009; tagged in Ethiopia, Publications, Sub-Saharan Africa