Ethiopian Journalists Forum is a young independent journalists association that undergone its founding assembly two months ago. The Forum, therefore, has - according to law - three months of time since its assembly to be counted as one of registered associations to work towards its goal while processing to acquire license. It is now in this period of grace. However, government media (especially Addis Zemen) launched a campaign against the Forum even before it gets its license and start functioning. The Ethiopian government has never been a friend to any civil society. The ‘charity law' that extremely limits foreign financing of civil societies that work on rights issues and the 70/30 project cost regulation which also indirectly limits awareness creating activities, both, were passed because the government undermines (or even dislikes) the role of civil societies in the democratization process. In this regard, we can't expect love of a new association from a ‘hea...
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