Guest post by Simegnish “Lily” Mengesha.  After a tense year marked by widely-criticized elections in which Ethiopia’s ruling party won 100 percent of parliamentary seats, 2015 concluded with yet more repression in the East African nation. During the last weeks of December, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported the arrests of two journalists, while five … Continue reading In Ethiopia, a Mix of Regulations and Repression Silence Independent Voices