The Committee to Protect Journalists posted on 16 December 2021 an article titled "Ethiopia Uses Emergency Law to Ramp Up Arrests of Journalists."
Ethiopian authorities have arrested at least 14 journalists since declaring a state of emergency on 2 November. The only country in Sub-Saharan Africa with more journalists under arrest is Eritrea.
In a related story, Aljazeera published on 16 December 2021 an article titled "Ethiopia Arrests Associated Press Freelance Journalist."
