Awol Kasim Allo

Awol Kasim Allo is an Ethiopian academic, author and lecturer who started teaching law at University of Keele in 2016.

According to Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists and Amnesty International, since the start of the Tigray conflict, Abiy's government intensified its arrests of Ethiopian journalists and the closing media outlets, which had started mid 2019. Furthermore, in November 2020, the authorities suspended the press licence of Reuters correspondent, and issued a warning letter to the correspondents of both BBC and Deutsche Welle for what the government described as "violation of the rules of media broadcasting".

Criticism Awol has been criticised by Sehin Teferra as incorrectly rejecting the existence of an Ethiopian identity by misrepresenting it.