Elias Kifle (Amharic: ኤልያስ ክፍሌ) is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Washington D.C.–based Ethiopian Review, an English/Amharic language Ethiopian news magazine that was launched in January 1991.
He is currently the CEO of Mereja TV, a satellite television channel, and Mereja.com, an online news and opinion journal.
In December 2010 Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi initiated a claim in the English High Court against Elias Kifle claiming damages for libel.
In July 2011 Kifle was ordered to pay £175,000 in damages for publishing that Al Amoudi had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death.
[1] In 2012, Kifle was charged in absentia of treason.