French journalist, Antoine Galindo, has been imprisoned in Ethiopia since his arrest on February 22. Authorities accuse him of "conspiring to create chaos" in the country.
He arrived in Ethiopia on February 13 to cover the African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, headquarters of the pan-African organization. The situation of press freedom has once again profoundly deteriorated in Ethiopian since 2020 and the start of the war in Tigray regional state. The second most populous country in Africa (120 million inhabitants) and a mosaic of some 80 ethno-linguistic communities.