Carpe Diem Ethiopia

We were grieved to learn of the untimely death of Anthony Mitchell this past weekend . We extend our heartfelt condolences to his wife, children, and all his friends and colleagues at Associated Press. Anthony Mitchell was a true friend of Ethiopia and Ethiopians. Last year, in Suffocated , we wrote the following on the EPRDF’s expulsion of the journalist, whose only crime was to report the truth: We are incensed over Anthony Mitchell's expulsion, the jailing of Ethiopian journalists, and the consequence of these draconian measures to the freedom of thought and expression in Ethiopia . It is one thing for a government to kick out a foreign journalist on grounds of national security threat. But a decision to render a journalist persona non grata for merely " disseminat[ing] information bent on tarnishing the image of the country " brings us closer to the type of tyranny that made Jefferson lose sleep. And Ethiopians, withered by years of governmental repressio...