Three New York Times Journalists Imprisoned in Ethiopia this Week - INCLUDING KAMPALA RESIDENT

Three journalists were imprisoned in Ethiopia for five days and one of them was my old roommate Vanessa Vick, a photographer. They were never told why they were arrested, all of their equipment was confiscated, they were threatened and held and gunpoint and Vanessa was kicked in the back.

There are several write-ups of the situation, but the most informative is on AllAfrica here.

(I don't think you need a log-in for it, but if you do and you'd like to read the article, email me and I'll copy the text of it in an email to you as I'd rather not quote at length here because some things are just better off my blog and away from Google's evil search engines.)

It's a big world for journalists to explore and discover to share with others, but the world feels very small when incidents like this hit so close to home.

Vanessa, I'm wishing you peaceful nights with your puppy Tommy when you get home to Muyenga.