Tom gardner is our horn of the africa correspondent. He had been reporting on ethiopia's 19 month long civil war. The country has endured a year and a half of civil war that's spilled out of the region of tigrey into amhara, even drawing in fighters from neighboring eretrea. A group of activists linked to the ethiopian government tried to have him deported last month.
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home and abroad are helping a propaganda push that is silencing criticism. California’s legal-marijuana market is enormous, but its growers are floundering under taxes and regulations; the industry is getting stubbed out. And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.
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