Category: Horn Situation

(Source: EEPA, 21 January 2021) – Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peace building, refugee protection and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn […]

(Source: EEPA) – Killings, destructions, looting hospitals and empty towns, an exclusive look inside Tigray with English subtitles produced by VRT Belgian Public Broadcast Service – subtitle in English. Ethiopia Situation (Tigray) – Regional Refugee Preparedness and Response Plan December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-31-20-December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-32-21-December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-33-22-December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-34-23-December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-35-24-December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-36-25-December 2020 Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-37-26-December 2020 […]

(By Mekete Tigray UK, 20 January 2021) – Washington DC – US Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken said, on his Senate confirmation hearing, the war raging in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as an “aggression” and “we have seen deeply deeply concerning actions taken including a number of atrocities directed at the people of Tigray and […]

(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Ahmed Hassen, 19 January 2021) – Abiy and his Amhara supporters are in the ascendancy—but Ethiopia’s future is by no means assured. Nominally in an effort to restore law and order, the federal government led by Ethiopia’s peace prize-winning premier is engaged in a brutal conflict with the defiant erstwhile leaders of […]

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(Source: European Union, 17 January 2021) – We need humanitarian access to Tigray as urgent first step towards peace in Ethiopia “There are regional spill-over effects of the conflict, with for instance Eritrean troops being involved in the military operations in Tigray and with Ethiopian troops being withdrawn from Somalia. The situation on the ground […]

(Source: Human rights Watch, 13 january 2021) – The security and human rights situation in Ethiopia deteriorated as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed struggled to maintain order amid growing unrest and political tensions. The rights landscape was defined by ongoing abuses by government security forces, attacks on civilians by armed groups, deadly violence along communal and […]

(Source: Human Rights Watch, 13 January 2021) – Two years on from the peace deal with Ethiopia, Eritrea’s leadership has increased its regional and international diplomatic engagement, but without improving the plight of Eritreans through critical human rights reforms. Eritrea’s government remains one of the world’s most repressive, subjecting its population to widespread forced labor […]

(Source: ISPI, by Federico Donelli, 07 January 2021) – The operation conducted by the Ethiopian Federal Army in the northern Tigray region threatens to trigger a further wave of instability in one of the most vulnerable areas of the world. Ethiopia is the keystone of a very fragile arc of instability that has Afghanistan on […]

(Source: The Independent, 03 January 2021) – Witnesses have begun to give accounts of the toll on civilians and the pervasive presence of Eritrean soldiers in the northern Ethiopian region, write Declan Walsh and Simon Marks As fighting raged across the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in November, a group of soldiers arrived one day […]

(Source: BBC News, 31 December 2020) – In a sign of the changing political fortunes of a man who was once a pariah, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki has proven to be a staunch ally of Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize winner and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, giving his troops much-needed support to fight the Tigray People’s […]

(Source:  DabangaSudan.org, EL FASHAGA, 23 December 2020) – The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) report that they recaptured territory in the Salam Bir and Mahaj areas in El Gedaref from the Ethiopian army and armed militia. In video clips, soldiers from the armed forces said that they would continue their operations until all the occupied areas […]