Ethiopia

Anthony Mitchell

The Associated Press has confirmed that Anthony Mitchell, one of its Nairobi correspondents, died in Saturday morning’s crash of Kenya Airways flight KQ507 in Cameroon.

Anthony was a friend. He lived in Nairobi because Ethiopia’s government expelled him in January 2006 for his reports of human rights abuses by Meles Zenawi’s government. Anthony’s expulsion drew little complaint from the governments of Britain, where he was born, or the United States, where AP is based. Yet inside Ethiopia, it was big news, and still is.

Ethiopia and the press

Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry has released a statement telling the western press that it needs to be more objective and balanced. Unfortunately, this is fairly typical stuff.

Our stories

The first of several stories Zoe and I are writing from our Ethiopia trip has moved at last, in The San Francisco Chronicle. You can find it here, with a sidebar here. More to come in the coming weeks. Please let us know what you think -- we're happy to respond to questions and comments.

Ethiopia: Tainted Ally?

U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops grabbed headlines this winter, invading Somalia to drive the Islamic Courts Union from power. Less known is the Addis government's massive persecution of its own people.

Zoe Alsop and Nick Wadhams spent a month in Ethiopia interviewing people across some of the country's least-visited regions, capturing the strains of a people under siege -- by their own government.

Their reports will be appearing in U.S. publications over the next few weeks.

Visit the Pulitzer Center's Ethiopia project page for links to current publications, photographs from their trip, transcripts of interviews conducted in Ethiopia, and a number of other related resources.

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