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Surveillance Network: Front Coalition and Neighborhood Punchline

surveillance network: Her fall from being the eyes and ears of one of Africa's most repressive governments to a neighborhood punchline illustrates how Ethiopia's once ubiquitous surveillance network has crumbled, according to Rabble. My work is harder now, she said, wistfully. Now she is mocked and ignored. People don't listen anymore. But the system, which detractors say was twisted into a tool to silence government critics, began to unravel with the outbreak of deadly protests in 2015 which undermined the EPRDF's authority. Rahmat worked for a system set up by the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front EPRDF coalition in the early 2000s, officially to help implement central policies across the country of 105 million people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.