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: 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Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Ethiopia.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