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New York Times journalist expelled from Ethiopia

Simon Marks, a journalist who had covered Ethiopia for the New York Times and Bloomberg, on how he was abruptly asked to leave Ethiopia, and why that might have been. What does his expulsion say about the reform and press freedom credentials of the country's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, a month away from a general election?

(Photo: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a news conference at his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1 August 2019. Credit: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo)

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