{"id":273522,"date":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMidGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMTkvZXRoaW9waWEtZ2FtYmlhLW1vc3QtaW1wcm92ZWQtd2hpbGUtZ2hhbmEtZmFsdGVycy1pbi0yMDE5LXByZXNzLWZyZWVkb20taW5kZXgv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:31","slug":"ethiopia-ranked-among-the-most-improved-in-the-2019-press-freedom-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273522","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia ranked among the most improved in the 2019 Press Freedom Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Without Borders\u2019 2019 World Press Freedom Index listed <strong>Ethiopia<\/strong> among the most improved countries, alongside Gambia, while Ghana slipped, Africanews noted.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-295834\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/David-Kaye.jpg?fit=650%2C366&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia ranked among the most improved in the 2019 Press Freedom Index\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The index still classed most of the world as problematic for journalists, so \u201cmost improved\u201d was relative. Ethiopia\u2019s jump reflected prisoner releases and a softer climate after emergency-rule years, not a finished free press.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early tenure harvested that ranking as reform proof. Later arrests of journalists and wartime information controls rewrote how durable that improvement really was.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the 2019 ranking in the archive is useful precisely because it freezes a high-water mark. Measuring what followed against that peak is how press-freedom claims get tested, not applauded forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/04\/19\/ethiopia-gambia-most-improved-while-ghana-falters-in-2019-press-freedom-index\/\">Africanews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/index\">Reporters Without Borders<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia, Gambia most improved while Ghana falters in 2019 Press Freedom Index&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsThe 2019 World Press Freedom Index categorised the media climate in more than three-fourths of the 180 countries and territories studied as \u201cproblematic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":295834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/David-Kaye.jpg?fit=650%2C366&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-199E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600856,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273522\/revisions\/600856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}