Author: mekete

(Source: African Liberty, By René Lefort) – Last year, Tigray’s leaders underestimated their weaknesses. The region’s security forces were swept away in the conventional conflict and largely unprepared to shift to guerrilla warfare after Mekelle was captured on 28 November. Even the grassroots party-state apparatus has vanished. In a 27 March phone discussion with Alex […]

(Source: Eritrea Hub and TPLF) – Admonishes “certain Eritreans” who kept silent until Tigray gets completely destroyed and “when the people of Tigray started to rise up, are knocking the doors of governments and international organizations and have started asking for the establishment of ‘buffered demilitarized zone’.”   Claims that those to whom these Eritreans […]

(Source: Dissident Voice, by Graham Peebles) – An unresolved war in the north of the country; ethnic based violence some are describing as genocide in the West; random explosions of aggression in various regions: Ethiopia is trembling. With around 117 million people, Ethiopia has the second largest population in Africa, made up of 80 or […]

(Source: The Africa Report) – A protester wearing a protective mask stands in front of a banner during the demonstration. Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/ The much-hyped democratic transition is not only dead, but buried deep. It would need a miracle to exhume it in the near future. This article was first published in Ethiopia […]

(Source: The East African, By TESFA-ALEM TEKLE) –  They say that allowing Eritrean troops to stay longer in Tigray is synonymous to permitting them to continue committing war crimes in the region. IN SUMMARY The political parties parties say the war has already claimed “hundreds of thousands of lives”, left millions of civilians displaced and over six […]

(Source: Mail Online, By Afp) – Fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region hits the six-month mark next Tuesday. Here is a timeline of the ongoing crisis in Africa’s second most populous country: – Troops enter – Fighting begins on November 4 2020, with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordering a military response to what he […]

(Source: Mail Online, By AFP) – It has been six months since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray for a military campaign he vowed would be swift and targeted. But violence rumbles on, and reports continue to emerge of massacres, rape and widespread hunger. – How did we get here? – Abiy, […]

(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Mistir Sew) –    In an attempt to shift blame, the Eritrean government openly implicated itself as being in violation of international laws. On 16 April, Sophia Tesfamariam, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations, sent a letter to the Security Council (UNSC). She explained Eritrea’s involvement in […]

(Source: Foreign Policy) – Jeffrey Feltman, the new American envoy to the Horn of Africa, faces a cascade of overlapping challenges in the region. By Robbie Gramer The Biden administration this month brought Jeffrey Feltman, a seasoned former senior U.S. and United Nations diplomat, out of semi-retirement to assume the newly created role of special […]

(Source: AFP, By Robbie COREY-BOULET, Fri, April 30, 2021, 6:45 AM) – Damaged shrine: The mausoleum at the al-Nejashi Mosque, one of the oldest in Africa     Hajj Siraj Mohammed has spent five decades managing the famed al-Nejashi Mosque in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, welcoming worshippers even during periods of conflict and famine.   […]

(Source: Foreign Policy) The world must step in now and call the assaults what they are: a war crime. By Helen Clark, a former prime minister of New Zealand and former administrator of the United Nations Development Program, and Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A woman is held by […]