Month: December 2020

(Source: Eritreahub.org, 31 December 2020) – On Wednesday I spoke to Meles (not his real name, but he needs to prevent harassment of his mother). He lives in Canada and his mother flies out to spend the festive season with him every year. She is in her eighties and it is a tough journey but […]

(By Fetsum Berhane on Wednesday, 11 March 2015) – This list is an extract of a study by the renowned Ethiopian scholar Richard Pankhurst titled “Innovation and Misoneism during the Reign of Emperor Yohannes IV (1872-1889)”, you are invited to read the study in it’s entirety. 1. Urban Development Dabra Tabor – The Emperor, on […]

(Source: Breitbart.com, by John Hayward, 29 Dec 20200) – The New York Times (NYT) on Monday cited testimony from numerous international aid workers, diplomats, U.N. officials, and Ethiopian refugees who said soldiers from Eritrea are fighting alongside Ethiopian government troops to subdue insurgents in the restless Tigray region of Ethiopia. Tigrayan leaders have frequently accused […]

(Source: Eritreanhub.org, 29 December 2020) – Ethiopian Airlines: International Boycott Campaign   Ethiopians, Eritreans and their international friends are launching a campaign for a boycott of Ethiopian Airlines, following the Ethiopian Government’s ethnic-profiling of Tigreans and other ethnic minorities. “We urge all passengers to stop flying with Ethiopian Airlines while this terrible war in Tigray […]

(Source: Aljazeera, 28 Decemebr 2020) – A judge ordered Gemechu’s detention for 14 days, but no reason was given for his arrest, news agency reports. Ethiopian police have arrested a Reuters cameraman at his home in Addis Ababa last week and have kept him in custody without charge, the international news agency said while condemning […]

(Source: The World, by Halima Gikandi, 28 December 2020) – Hundreds of arrest warrants have been issued against military personnel and civilians suspected of being involved with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, but ordinary Tigrayans have claimed they too are being targeted. After claiming victory in the months-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Prime […]

(Source: UNHCR, Photos and text by Will Swanson, 24 December 2020) – Just a few weeks ago, they worked as doctors, teachers, artists. One couple were newlyweds. Then the shooting and the shellfire started.   Over 50,000 people have fled violence in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in November and December, seeking safety across the border […]

(By Y H, updated, 16 December 2020) – 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 Abiy Ahmed’s government war crimes against humanity and […]

(Source: Eritreahub.org, 25 December 2020) –  It has been impossible to get hard evidence of what has taken place in the Tigrayan town of Adigrat, but it is clear that something terrible has happened. I am now starting to collect evidence of what took place. If anyone would like to share what they know, I […]

(Source: Addis Standard, Translation By Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne, Addis Abeba, 25 December 2020) – In a rare interview with the Voice of America (VOA), Dr. Fasika Amdesellaise, who was serving as a surgeon at Ayider Referral Hospital in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray regional state, revealed the death of civilians in Mekelle he also said […]

(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Mistir Sew, 24 December 2020) –  The intervention has been covert to mask the involvement of Eritrean troops, control the narrative, and obscure civilian suffering. International action is needed. After nearly three years of political tension between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray regional authorities, which resulted in each party’s […]

(Source: IAA Diaspora Secretariat Press Release, 21 December 2020) – It has been almost two months since the Ethiopian Government declared war in Tigray. This war has been accompanied with the total communication blackout and closure of the region from the basic services like food, telephone, electricity, medicine, banks, internet, etc. The Irob district that […]

(Source: Human Rights Watch, 23 December 2020) – Laetitia Bader, Human Rights Watch’s Horn of Africa Director, recently returned from a research mission in Sudan to interview refugees who fled the fighting that broke out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in early November 2020. For several weeks, federal government forces, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), […]