Category: Ethiopia

(Source: The Elephant, By Mehari Taddele Maru) –  Abiy Ahmed’s legitimacy hangs on conjuring up an improbable military victory in the total war he has declared on the people  of Tigray. Download PDFPrint Article Selected by the ruling party and later appointed by the Ethiopian parliament in 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was expected to deliver […]

(Source: Politico, BY ARMINKA HELIĆ, 02 August 2021 4:03 am) –  We’ve seen this story before. This time we should make sure it has a different ending. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently said that his country is “facing an enemy which is the cancer of Ethiopia.” He drew a chilling distinction between Tigrayan Ethiopians and others […]

(Source: US State Department) –  UNITED STATES STRENGTHENS EFFORTS TO FIGHT FAMINE IN TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA WITH MORE THAN $149 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE   For Immediate Release Friday, July 30, 2021 Office of Press Relations press@usaid.gov In response to growing needs in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the United States is providing more than $149 million […]

(Addis Standard) –  Addis Abeba, July 31/2021 – The Special Adviser of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on the Prevention of  Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, in a statement discussing the deteriorating situation in Ethiiopia expressed alarm at the continuation of what she described as ‘ethnic violence’  in the country and the allegations of serious violations […]

(Source: AP, By CARA ANNA) –      NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide is visiting Ethiopia next week to press the government to lift what the U.S. calls a blockade on humanitarian aid to the conflict-hit Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands of people now face […]

Current position of the Government of Tigray regarding a negotiated ceasefire  Abiy Ahmed has committed the act of treason by colluding with foreign forces to commit genocide on the people of Tigray. His genocidal war campaign against Tigray has caused untold suffering on the people of Tigray and has thrown the country into an even deeper […]

(Source: OCHA) –    The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, today started a six-day mission to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. “It was important to me that I carry out my first official mission as the UN’s humanitarian chief to Ethiopia,” said Mr. Griffiths. “Humanitarian needs in […]

(Source: Reuters, By Maggie Fink and Dawit Endeshaw, NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA) – Residents of Ethiopia’s Amhara region said on Monday some young men were responding to a weekend call to arms by their president, as Amhara’s government denied that forces from neighbouring Tigray had advanced further into the region. An eight-month-old war between Ethiopia’s central government and […]

(Source: Puntland Post, By Adan Essa Hussein) –  The incendiary speech of Agegnehu Teshager, the President of Amhara region, is the latest incontrovertible evidence that the Ethiopian government has sparked inter-ethnic war in a country that adopted a federal system in place of assimilationist policies associated with Amharas. It is absurd to talk of Ethiopia […]

(Source: BBC World Service) –      The president of Ethiopia’s Amhara region has called on all residents holding arms to mobilise against the forces from neighbouring Tigray. “Starting from tomorrow [Monday], I call on all people of age who are armed either at governmental or private level to mobilise for a survival campaign,” Agegnehu […]

(Source: Catholic News Service, Fredrick Nzwili) –    NAIROBI, Kenya — Expressing compassion and solidarity with the people affected by war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the Ethiopian bishops’ conference said it is not too late to end the violence that has left thousands of people dead and 2 million more displaced. “As pastors, we can […]

  (Nation, Eduardo Soteras | AFP, By Tesfa-Alem Tekle, Ethiopia Correspondent) –  What you need to know: In a statement on Saturday, the Prime Minister called upon the people of Tigray to stand with the Ethiopian government. The armed group fighting the Ethiopian army and its allied regional forces in Tigray claims it is now in a position to march […]

(Source: Awash Post, By Faisal Roble) –  Ethiopia is at a dangerous crossroads. The ill-fated war in Tigray, which started in November 2020, has morphed into a civil war involving six of Ethiopia’s ten federal states. Ethnic and political polarization is rife. The ruling elite and their allies unabashedly fuel genocidal rhetoric on social and […]

(Source: Ethiopia Insight, By DAWUD MOHAMMED, 21 July 2021) –  Superficial political changes have so far made little headway in addressing Afar region’s very real problems. Ahmed Seid was born and raised in Arado ke Lahiguh, a small village in Aysaita district in Afar region. He spent his childhood on the ancestral clan-owned lands where his father […]

(Source: The Africa Report, 22 July 2021) –  Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia’s Tigray walk to Hamdeyat Transition Center after arriving on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) The armed conflict that broke out on 3 […]

(By Yared Huluf) –  Simple logic a dictator couldn’t understand; a fool lives engulfed in his make-believe world. That is one tragic thing to live with. But the greatest tragedy is that he believes the test  of the world is as fool as he is  to buy his furphies as realities. Just recently there was an image […]

(Source: The Christian Science Monitor, By Ryan Lenora Brown, Staff writer, @ryanlenorabrown, JOHANNESBURG, 19 July 2021) –  When Mulugeta Gebregziabher heard in October 2019 that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the new reformist prime minister of Ethiopia, his reaction was immediate dread. “I thought, this is going to give this guy […]

(Source: Government of the Netherlands) –  Mass murder, sexual violence and famine – the crossfire in the Ethiopian conflict area of Tigray has triggered a humanitarian crisis. On 13 July 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to put pressure on the warring parties. How could the situation in Ethiopia get so […]

(Source: Portland Post) – Addis Ababa (PP News Desk) — The Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed has posted a controversial Amharic tweet that describes Tigrayans as “weeds” to be removed. “We will work to remove the weed. But while removing the weed, we will try our best not to damage the wheat” tweeted Abiy […]