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Ethiopia frees workers with foreign media detained in Tigray

Ethiopia frees workers with foreign media detained in Tigray

FOUR Ethiopians working with foreign journalists in the northern Tigray region have been released without charges, an official and media outlets have said. A reporter for the BBC's Tigrinya language service, Girmay Gebru, two translators with Agence France-Presse and the Financial Times, and a journalist working with the New York Times were detained in recent days, their outlets said. "All journalists and translators have been released without charges," Abebe Gebrehiwot Yihdego, deputy head of Tigray's interim administration, told Reuters. The BBC confirmed Girmay's release in a tweet, while AFP and the New York Times also confirmed in emails to Reuters…
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