Press clipping: Ethiopia’s media crackdown
Economist Podcasts2 Kesä 2022

Press clipping: Ethiopia’s media crackdown

The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home and abroad are helping a propaganda push that is silencing criticism. California’s legal-marijuana market is enormous, but its growers are floundering under taxes and regulations; the industry is getting stubbed out. And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.

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