About: Feyisa Lilesa

The Brief: 2016: The year women banged their heads against the glass ceiling
A lot of us expected the first female president of the United States to be elected this week. She wasn't.
Olympics dissident: Ethiopia could ‘become another Libya’
EXCLUSIVE/ Ethiopia – one of the EU’s largest recipients of development aid and a key partner in the new Emergency Trust Fund for Africa for halting the flow of migrants – garnered unwelcome headlines last summer, when Olympic athlete Feyisa Lilesa raised his arms in protest at the treatment of the Oromia and Amhara peoples.