The Committee to Protect Journalists posted on 1 March 2021 a statement titled "Ethiopian Military Detains BBC Reporter, Translators for AFP and FT."
The Ethiopian prime minister's office announced on 24 February that it had invited journalists from seven international media outlets, including the Agence France Presse (AFP), Financial Times (FT), and BBC to report on the conflict in Tigray Region. On 27 February, the military arrested in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray Region, two Ethiopian translators with AFP and a member of the FT news crew. On 1 March, they arrested an Ethiopian reporter with the BBC's Tigrinya-language service.
