The Committee to Protect Journalists published on 1 August 2022 a commentary titled "Journalists Face Growing Hostility as Ethiopia's Civil War Persists" by Muthoki Mumo.
According to the Committe to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Ethiopia now ranks with Eritrea as sub-Saharan Africa's worst jailer of journalists. CPJ has documented the arrest of at least 63 journalists and media workers since November 4, 2020, the outbreak of civil war, at least eight of whom remain detained as of August 1, 2022.
