መግለፂ ፕሬዝዳንት መንግስቲ ትግራይ ተጋዳላይ ዶ/ር ደብረፅዮን ገ/ሚካኤል (Dr Debretsion G/michael)
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Continue ReadingUS Sanctions on Ethiopia: Good Policy or Violation of Ethiopia’s Sovereignty?
(Source: Global Policy Journal, By Teferi Mergo – 21 June 2021) – CONFLICT AND SECURITY Teferi Mergo explores claims of state sovereignty by a regime increasingly embattled at home and abroad. The recent announcement by the United States government that it is instituting a set of sanctions on Ethiopia due to the ongoing […]
Continue ReadingSituation Report EEPA HORN No. 172 – 22 June 2021
(Source: EEPA) – Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and […]
Continue ReadingEthiopians go to the polls, but election may not resolve the country’s crisis
(Source: The East Africa, By William Davidson) – Ethiopia is scheduled to hold delayed federal and regional council elections on June 21. The vote is an opportunity for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to consolidate power for his ruling Prosperity Party, which, in part due to the absence of major opponents, looks set to form the […]
Continue Readingየኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ የትግራይን ህዝብ እንድያጠፋ በኢሳት የተላለፈው ጥሪ
የሚከተለው ጥሪ ኢሳት በሐምሌ 30/2008 ያስተላለፈው ነው። ወደ ፅሑፍ ቀይረን ኣቅርበነዋል። ቪድዮውም ከታች ኣያይዘነዋል። ከመላው የጎንደር አማራ ኢትዮጵያውያን የተላለፈ አስቸኳ ጥሪ ለኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ይድረስ ለኢትዮጵያ ሳትላይት ቴሌቪዥንና ሬድዮ ዋሽንግተን ዲሲ አሜሪካ፣አምስተርዳም ኔዘርላንድ፣ ለኦሮሚያ ሚድያ ኔትወርክ ዋሽንግተን ዲሲ አሜሪካ ጉዳዩ፦ በሰላም ሊመለስልን ያልቻለው ነፃነታችንን በተፈለገው የሐይል እርምጃ ለማስመለስ የቀረበ ጥሪ የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ካለፉት 25 ዓመታት ስህተታቸውና […]
Continue ReadingCouncil appoints three new EU special representatives for the Sahel, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa
(Source: EU) – Council appoints three new EU special representatives for the Sahel, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa The Council today appointed three new EU special representatives (EUSRs) as follows: Emanuela Claudia Del Re has been appointed EUSR for the Sahel from 1 July 2021 until 30 August 2022. Ms. Del Re is […]
Continue ReadingSexual Violence and the War in Tigray
(Source: Law Fare, By Hilary Matfess, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 8:01 AM) – It is now indisputable that the outbreak of war in Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia, in November 2020 has resulted in widespread conflict-related sexual violence. In mid-April, the top public health official in the interim government in Tigray (a body […]
Continue ReadingEthiopia’s Abiy Ahmed: ‘There is no hunger in Tigray’
(Source: BBC News) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has denied that there is hunger in the country’s war-torn Tigray region. Speaking at a polling station on the day of the country’s general election, Mr Abiy admitted there was a problem but said the government could fix it. The fighting, which the UN says has […]
Continue ReadingU.N. rights chief deplores abuse reports in Ethiopia’s Tigray
(Source: Reuters, Geneva) – The U.N. rights chief said on Monday she was “deeply disturbed” by reports of continued violations including executions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region,and added that a long-awaited joint investigation should be ready by August. Michelle Bachelet said abuses had been committed by all sides in the conflict in the northern […]
Continue ReadingSituation Report EEPA HORN No. 171 – 21 June 2021
(Source: EEPA) – Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and […]
Continue ReadingThe images we feared we would see are here now: Tigray famine 2021
(Source: Martinplaut.com, By Martin Plaut) – There has been no drought; no natural catastrophe. This tragedy is man-made – the result of a policy by Ethiopia and Eritrea to starve an entire population. This is attested to by the Finnish Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto. These were taken in Tigray’s regional capital, Mekelle. The situation […]
Continue ReadingTigray – a challenge to the UN day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
(Source: World Peace Foundation) – International Day of Eliminating Sexual Violence in Conflict Conference #EndSexualViolenceinTigray 20 Jun 2021 Sexual violence is the brutal hallmark of the conflict that broke out in Tigray, Ethiopia last November. Women and girls have been subjected to rape, gang rape, abduction, and mutilation of their sexual organs. Horrific reports […]
Continue ReadingTIGRAY: Women from Africa and diaspora call for action to end campaign of sexual violence
(Source: CSW, 18 Jun 2021) – 56 women from Africa and the diaspora have marked the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict by signing an open letter in solidarity with women and girls in Ethiopia’s Tigray region who are currently being subjected to a campaign of sexual violence described as being […]
Continue ReadingFrom Nobel hero to driver of war, Ethiopia’s leader faces voters
(Source: New York Times) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plunged Ethiopia into a war in the Tigray region that spawned atrocities and famine. On Monday, his country goes to the polls. Ethiopia’s election campaign has highlighted divisions that have only grown since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office. Credit…Finbarr O’Reilly for The New York Times […]
Continue ReadingSudan calls for international sanctions against Ethiopia
(Source: Daily News Egypt) – Sudanese Foreign Minister accuses Ethiopia of filling dam without reaching agreement with downstream countries Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi has demanded that the international community impose sanctions on Ethiopia for its intransigence regarding its controversial dam. This relates particularly to the negotiations over the filling and […]
Continue ReadingEditorial: The Guardian view on famine in Ethiopia: food must not be a weapon
(Source: The Guardian, 20 June 2021 18.22 BST) – People are starving in the Tigray region. The culprit is the devastating war. In the early 1980s, as a terrible famine claimed between 400,000 and 1 million lives in Ethiopia, the international community responded to what was widely misunderstood and misreported as a natural disaster. Famines […]
Continue ReadingUN Security Council: Adopting Resolution 2417 (2018), Security Council Strongly Condemns Starving of Civilians, Unlawfully Denying Humanitarian Access as Warfare Tactics
UN SECURITY COUNCIL 8267TH MEETING (AM) The Security Council today adopted a resolution condemning the starving of civilians as a method of warfare — as well as the unlawful denial of humanitarian access to civilian populations — with members welcoming it as a landmark expression of unity on those critical issues. Unanimously adopting resolution 2417 (2018), […]
Continue ReadingFrom Apologies to Atrocities: How to make sense of leadership statements in Ethiopia
(Source: World Peace Foundation, By Jan Nyssen and several colleagues that co-authored but preferred to remain anonymous) – In a speech to assembled Ethiopian ambassadors in January 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed would make a prescient remark regarding Tigray. Alluding to the role of soldiers during the battle of Adua in 1896 and later, during […]
Continue ReadingAfrican Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) inquiry exposes Abiy Ahmed lies: “Ethiopian Government started the war on Tigray” not TPLF
(Source: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) inquiry) – Commission has been following the developments in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, with concern. On 4 November 2020 the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia launched a military offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), this was followed by attacks […]
Continue ReadingAs Policymakers Raise Alarm about Tigray Crisis, More Action is Needed
(Source: Council on Foreign Relations, by Michelle Gavin) – As the horrific suffering in Ethiopia’s Tigray region continues, the United States and other members of the international community are sounding ever more urgent alarms. In the last two weeks, officials at the highest levels of government have taken pains to draw attention to Tigray. U.S. […]
Continue ReadingThe spiraling situation in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region
(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Tsegaye Birhanu) – The dust of the violence in Metekel has not yet settled and threatens to spread into neighboring zones, raising fears of escalating conflict. Ethiopia is now at a crossroads. The hazardous intersection of thrice-rescheduled elections, the issue of a second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), […]
Continue ReadingThe Sham Ethiopian Election and the Crowning of a Tyrant
( By M.Tesfaye, 19 June 2021) – “A coronation. Ethiopia’s flawed elections risk dividing the country further. Opposition leaders are in jail and in many areas people cannot vote. The overall result is not in doubt. For Abiy, who has said his mother prophesied that one day to be king, it is less an election than […]
Continue Reading‘Don’t betray women of Tigray’: calls grow for international action against rape in war
(Source: The Guardian, Zeinab Mohammed Salih, Sat 19 Jun 2021 07.00 BST) – Politicians among signatories of two open letters urging investigation into reports of sexual violence in Ethiopian conflict The former prime minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, and Zimbabwean author and 2020 Booker prize nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga are among the signatories of […]
Continue ReadingAxumities Awaken, Egypt Hearken!
(By Yared Huluf, first posted on 01 December 2020, updated 18 June 2021) – To begin I would like to reiterate Mani (216 – 274 AD) the founder of the Manichaeism religion of the Sassanian Empire, who stated that the Aksumite Empire was one of four great kingdoms (Roman, Persian and Chinese Empires) of the […]
Continue ReadingProtesters in Washington and across US bring attention to Ethiopia’s Tigray region
(Source: The National) – Ethiopian delegation visiting the US capital met Biden officials on Thursday as UN announced cases of gender violence and rape Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the US State Department in Washington on Thursday to demand an end to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where the UN has documented hundreds […]
Continue ReadingEU envoy: Ethiopian leaders said “they are going to destroy and wipe out Tigrayans”
(Source: Addis Standard, By Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne, Addis Ababa) – An alarming video with claims from Pekka Haavisto, Foreign Minister of Finland and EU’s envoy to Ethiopia has emerged in which the top EU diplomat alleged that Ethiopian leaders told him in February of their intents to “wipe out the Tigrayans.” FM Haavisto briefed […]
Continue ReadingLead international Magnitsky sanctions for Tigray: Maria Reisdorf and Sarah Teich in the Hill Times
(Source: MLI, By Maria Reisdorf and Sarah Teich, June 17, 2021) – Leading on Magnitsky sanctions will be an important first step, both to show solidarity with the Tigray community, and to impose real consequences against those committing atrocity crimes against them, write Maria Reisdorf and Sarah Teich in the Hill Times. A war is […]
Continue ReadingThe National Bank of Ethiopia should apologize for its role in the Tigray war
(Source: Awash Post, By ASRESS ADIMI GIKAY) – The categorical suspension of all bank accounts held in the Tigray region was illegal, discriminatory, and disproportionate. NBE must apologize and pay reparation to all Tigrayans. In November 2020, a few days after the Ethiopian National Defense Force launched armed hostility in Tigray, the National Bank of Ethiopia […]
Continue ReadingBoycott Ethiopian Airlines for ethnically cleansed Tigrayans from their Jobs, transporting soldiers and weapons to the war on Tigray
(By Yared Huluf, first published on 16 December 2020 and updated on 18 June 2021) – Freedom and peace loving people of the world, “Boycott Ethiopian Airlines” Freedom and peace loving people of the world, we urge you boycott your flights using the so called ‘Ethiopian Airlines’ since the airlines is engaged in supporting of […]
Continue ReadingEthiopia urges AU Tigray rights inquiry to ‘immediately cease’
(Source: AP, By Cara Ann, Nairobi, Kenya) – Ethiopia’s government is urging an African Union body to “immediately cease” a new commission of inquiry into allegations of abuses in the country’s Tigray region, where months of deadly conflict have led to warnings of famine and “ethnic cleansing.” An Ethiopian foreign ministry statement on Thursday criticized […]
Continue ReadingEthiopian Foreign Ministry urges African Union to “immediately cease” Commission of inquiry on human rights abuses in Tigray
(Source: Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Press statement on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights measures to investigate alleged violations of human rights and humanitarian law in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. It is to be recalled that the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, during the meeting of the […]
Continue ReadingTens of Thousands of Tigray Children Face Imminent Death, UNICEF Warns
(Source: VOA, By Lisa Schlein, Geneva) – The U.N. Children’s Fund warns at least 33,000 severely malnourished children in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region face imminent death if they do not receive immediate help to treat their condition. UNICEF is appealing to the Ethiopian government to live up to its promise of unimpeded access to conflict-ridden […]
Continue ReadingSituation Report EEPA HORN No. 170 – 17 June 2021
(Source: EEPA) – Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa […]
Continue ReadingHistory is being denied in Abiy and Isaias’ war on Tigray
(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Ethiopian Canadians for Peace, 15 June 2021) – Tigray is being decimated because its ruling party presents a challenge to two strongmen. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his ally, President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea, are waging a catastrophic war in Tigray that has caused alarm globally, including at the United […]
Continue ReadingUS congressman Michael McCaul raises spectre of ‘genocide’ in Tigray
(Source: The National) – High-ranking member of Congress says systematic crimes by Ethiopia call into question whether genocide is occurring in region Michael McCaul, the lead Republican congressman on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, raised concerns on Wednesday over whether genocide is occurring in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Addressing US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield […]
Continue ReadingNew information about the Somali troops who fought in Tigray
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Continue ReadingWhy the 2021 Ethiopian famine could be worse than 1984-85
(Source: MartinPlaut.com) – Date: 15/06/2021Author: Martin Plaut No-one wants to see a return to the tragic pictures of the 1984-85 famine, when 400,000 people died. But there is now a real possibility that this could be the case. Already the UN estimates that 353,000 are in a […]
Continue ReadingOpinion: “Starvation has become a weapon of war in Ethiopia. U.S. action is urgent”
(Source: Washington Post) – Opinion by the Editorial Board June 15, 2021 at 6:31 p.m. FOR MONTHS, humanitarian agencies have been warning that famine could spread in the Ethiopian region of Tigray if government forces and allied troops from neighboring Eritrea did not end a brutal campaign to subjugate the area. Now that emergency […]
Continue ReadingEthiopian economic reform falls flat, investors flee
(Source: Cyprus Mail) – When Ethiopia awarded its first private telecom licence last week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hailed it as the crowning achievement of his plan to open up Ethiopia’s tightly controlled economy of over 109 million people. But for many foreign investors who feted him getting the top job in 2018, hopes of […]
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