Ethiopians from UK, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and the US protested during the G20 summit in London against the attendance of Meles Zenawi on Thursday, 2 April 2009 as detailled in the extensive report by AbbayMedia from London.

After the event, Meles Zenawi, current NEPAD chair, abruptly cancelled a press conference he was about to give, reportedly worried about the kind of questions that were going to be put to him concerning human rights violations within Ethiopia and his dealing with his opponents, before conducting this interview.

Sources in Ethiopia informed us last week that CyberEthiopia.com was accessible again from Ethiopia after a nearly 3 year ban.

The lifting of the Internet filtering comes few days after President Obama's administration released its Human Rights reports in 2009 accusing the Ethiopian government of restricting Internet access to its citizens and of "blocking web sites", including CyberEthiopia.com .

An Ethiopian film about the regime of the country's former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam has won the chief prize at Africa's main movie awards ceremony.

Teza was the unanimous winner of the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the event in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Director Haile Gerima's award was accepted by his sister Selome, who also co-produced the film.

The silver award went to South African film Nothing But The Truth, and Algerian comedy Mascarades was third.