Surveillance and State Control in Ethiopia
Source: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Posted: 18 May 2017 04:55 PM PDT
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published on 18 May 2017 a study titled “Surveillance and State Control in Ethiopia” by Saskia Brechenmacher.
The author argues that the closing of civic space in Ethiopia has the following key features:
–Harsh restrictions on foreign funding for civil society organizations working on a wide range of politically related issues.
–Violent repression of civic mobilization in the name of counterterrorism and anti-extremism.
–Efforts to bring all independent civil society groups–including development and humanitarian actors–in line with the government’s national development policy.