Media Darling: HRW’s 10 flagrant blunders
Several western newscasts and blogs misleadingly blended sound bites from the EU Observers Preliminary Report with the Human Rights Watch statement when reporting the provisional results of the Ethiopian election. All alike picked none but the phrases “marred by narrowing political space”, “uneven playing field” and “use of state resources” from the first page of … Read more
AU Election Observers – Preliminary Statement
The African Union Observer Mission has released,on May 26, its Preliminary Statement of its observations of the 4th National and Regional election of Ethiopia held on May 23/2010. Here are the main sections of the report. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS 1. Campaigns Even though the official campaign period was still on by the time the AU mission … Read more
EU Election Observers – Preliminary Report
The European Union Election Observation Mission has released its Preliminary Report on May 25, 2010 The following is the executive summary of the preliminary report. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT High turnout on a peaceful and orderly Election Day marred by a narrowing of political space and an uneven playing field Following an invitation from the Government of … Read more
