To mark the tenth anniversary of the coming to power of the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), ARTICLE 19 today publishes a report exploring what progress has been made towards eliminating the
censorship dimensions of famine in Ethiopia over the past decade. Andrew Puddephatt, Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, said: "The apparent return of famine to Ethiopia in 1999-2000 suggests that, despite the progress that has been made since 1991 by the ruling EPRDF in strengthening freedom of expression, including access to information, much more remains to be done. If, as Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen argues, poverty and famine are forms of 'unfreedom', then it makes it literally a matter of life and death that those who govern Ethiopia push forward urgently with the process of deepening and consolidating respect for fundamental human rights and democratic principles."