Ethiopia Expels New York Times Reporter Who Covered Tigray War 

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - Ethiopia has expelled a foreign correspondent working for The New York Times after earlier revoking his license over "unbalanced" reporting, a government official has confirmed. 

The decision to kick out Simon Marks, an Irish journalist living in Ethiopia, drew swift condemnation from Reporters Without Borders, which said it was "the first time that a foreign journalist is expelled from the country" under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. In a story on Marks' Friday expulsion, the Times said Ethiopian officials summoned him to a meeting Thursday and held him at the airport for eight hours before putting him on a flight early Friday. "It is alarming that the government of Ethiopia treated the journalist, Simon Marks, like a criminal, expelling him from the country without even letting him go home to get a change of clothing or his passport," said Michael Slackman, the paper's assistant managing editor for international news, according to the Times.