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(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 […]
Continue Reading(By T Kebede, 12 january 2021) – Cry, Mama Cry! She is not that old but has lived long; Long enough to suss out right from wrong. From the looks, she is not that old, She exudes amaranth freshness of a young girl Stepping through the nubile threshold. But make no mistake, she is old […]
Continue Reading(Source: Ethiopia Insight, byFassil Hailu, 12 January 2021) – Pro- or anti-war, we should all agree that independent access to the conflict zone is a must. On 3 November, a full-scale war broke out in Ethiopia between the federal government led by Abiy Ahmed and the TPLF-run Tigray regional government. Addis Ababa declared victory […]
Continue Reading(By Mekete Tigray UK, Editorial, 11 january 2020) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is not only has failed to live up to his early promises and Medemer philosophy, he has unleashed a wave of repression, killings of ethnic groups and locking up his political opponents and those he once freed. He is advancing a dangerous […]
Continue Reading(By Zarai Deres, 10 Januay 2020) – When Aksum was an empire, and as that one of the fourth mighty power starting 80 BC to 825 AD, following Yeha and Damat, there were neither Amharas nor an Amhara region where they lived in as a society they claimed. What we have been falsely fed as […]
Continue Reading(By T K, 10 January 2020) – Shot Himself in The Neck! Condemned as a criminal crook Three ropes round my neck hooked; One for being a black, The other a member of an oppressed ethnic, And the third a victim of a wrath from a pandemic. Day time as I walk At night as […]
Continue Reading(Source: Reuters, By Reuters Staff, Nairobi, 09 January 2020) – Soldiers and police in the northern Ethiopian city of Mekelle have expressed concerns about insecurity, with one saying women were raped this week, after the city fell to federal forces during a war late last year. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government declared victory in its […]
Continue Reading(Source: Canadian Dimension, by Pierre Beaudet, 08January 2021) – In conversation with Eritrean human rights activist Paulos Tesfagiorgis Paulos Tesfagiorgis was the head of the Eritrean Relief Association (ERA) and one of the senior cadres of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) from the 1970s until the liberation of the country in 1991. While EPLF […]
Continue Reading(Source: Telegraph, By Zecharias Zelalem and Will Brown, 08 January 2021) – Ethiopia and Eritrea have consistently denied reports that Eritrean troops had crossed the border. The extent of Eritrea’s involvement in Ethiopia’s brutal civil war has been laid bare after an Ethiopian general was caught on camera admitting soldiers from the secretive gulag-state had […]
Continue Reading(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 […]
Continue Reading(By Y Huluf, 08 January 2021) – At any historical period and in no place of the planet did ever emerge a government that was hell bent on destroying a constitution of its own sovereign part except in Ethiopia for no legitimate reasons but hatred of the people living in the region. Tigray did […]
Continue Reading(Source: Nationalinterest.org, by Michael Rubin,08 January 2021) – As Ethiopia heads toward the delayed elections tentatively now rescheduled for June 5, 2021, Ahmed’s fight not only undercuts his chief rival, who happens to be Tigrayan but enables him to use emergency powers to further erode democracy. frica has, for decades, been a democracy success story […]
Continue Reading(By T K, 07 January 2021) – I should be please Every time I go to bed, I ask myself the same question: How did I fare today; And what is my fate tomorrow? Today was tough: However, despite the stress And the rat race; I did it, both Bodily and mind intact; And I […]
Continue Reading(Source: Eritrea Hub, 07 January 2021) – SECURITY AND JUSTICE FOR TIGREANS IN ETHIOPIA (SJTE) ድሕንነትን ፍትሕን ንትግራዎት ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ 907 T Street NW, Suite-Basement, Washington DC 20001 How PM Abiy Ahmed Ali Duped the World including the Nobel Prize Organization: Deconstructing Abiy Ahmed’s Alternative Facts duping the world final on letterhead Security and Justice […]
Continue Reading(Source: Addis Standard, Addis Ababa, BY MEDIHANE EKUBAMICHAEL @MEDIHANE , 06 January 2021) – In a speech that lasted for more than 20 minutes and delivered as part of response to questions raised by the residents of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray regional state, Major General Belay Seyoum Commander of the Northern Command, said the army […]
Continue Reading(By Mulugeta Abai, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, The full Article on PDF format: Abiy’s War in Tigray and Crimes of International laws, 06 January 2020) – Almost all wars are intertwined with cover-ups and keeping people in darkness by the ruling cliques and war-mongering forces. The extent of war crimes and […]
Continue Reading(Source: Reuters, Nairobi, 06 January 2021) – About 2.2 million people have been displaced within Ethiopia’s Tigray region since fighting erupted there in November with about half fleeing after their homes were burned down, a local government official said. Gebremeskel Kassa, a senior official in the interim administration in Tigray appointed by the federal government, […]
Continue Reading(By Mekete Tigray UK, 06 January 2020) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is trying to come out of the rabbit hole with serious difficulties and his explanations how the war in Tigray erupted contradicted with his recently appointed Interim Prosperity Party (PP) officials in Mekele and Amhara Regional State Police Chief Commissioner, Abere Adamu that […]
Continue Reading(Source: Sudan Tribune, Gadafef, 06 january 2020) – The Ethiopian Federal Army deployed more troops on the border area to prevent people fleeing the war in the Tigray region to cross into Sudan. The federal troops have retaken control of most of the territory of the Tigray region. However, the TPLF fighters continue to resist […]
Continue Reading(Source: HornTVNews.com, 03 January 2020) – The new Mayor of the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray regional State has admitted that Eritrean Forces are actively operating inside Ethiopia’s territory. It is the first confirmation by a high-profile government official on the involvement of foreign troops in the conflict in Northern Ethiopia. The video responses to questions […]
Continue Reading(Source: Y H, 03 January 2021) – Are you alive or dead Or are you asleep or awake I beg you to raise your head See what has happened To the sanctuary, the world honour, Where your daughter was reared; Where Fatima roamed around And care free, had promenaded Fatima 1500 years back was safely […]
Continue Reading(By Tekle Gebre, updated 03 January 2021) – As all Eritreans are aware of that Abiy is heavily support by Isaias Afewerki. The Eritrean Army is involved in the war on Tigray from the start of the war on 4th November 2020. The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), Amhara Militias and the Eritrean Army have […]
Continue Reading(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 […]
Continue Reading(Source: T K, 03 January 2021) – I leave the usual fibs he tells the public on daily bases and concentrate on the incontrovertible lies he told the world at large, so that anyone, anywhere who deals with this pathological lies need to carful with whom one is dealing with before one is taken for a […]
Continue Reading(Source: BBC News, By Alex De Waal Africa analyst, 03 January 2021) – The armed clashes along the border between Sudan and Ethiopia are the latest twist in a decades-old history of rivalry between the two countries, though it is rare for the two armies to fight one another directly over territory. The immediate issue […]
Continue Reading(Source: AwashPost.com, 02 January 2021) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his party cannot maintain law and order through military Command Posts in every regional state. Violence breeds more violence. It is time for a political solution and a serious rethink. By Workineh Teshome Another month. Another bloody massacre in Ethiopia. The unexplained and unexplainable […]
Continue Reading(Source: Eritreahub.org, 02 January 2021) – This is a story of a woman – I will call her ‘Hewan’ – who has been deprived not only of her job, but of the country she loves. A mother, in her early thirties, Hewan is now seeking refugee status in the USA. She has left behind her […]
Continue Reading(Source: AP, By CARA ANN, NAIROBI, Kenya, 01 January 2020) – Ethiopian security forces killed more than 75 people and injured nearly 200 during deadly ethnic unrest in June and July following the killing of a popular singer, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Friday. The commission’s report said 123 people in all were killed […]
Continue Reading(Source: FEWS, Ethiopia Food Security Outlook Update, 31 December 2020) – Food security Crisis across much of western Ethiopia drives significantly above-normal needs for 2021 Key Messages Since the outbreak of conflict in early November between federal and regional forces in Tigray, nearly 54,000 people have been displaced to Sudan as of December 26, […]
Continue Reading(By Y H, 31 December 2020) – Are Eritreans as people Dead and buried? ወዲ በራድ phony government Hasn’t event told them for a single minute Through its media outlets, His salience and lies That 90% of its state army is at war Against Its neighbour Tigray! What an insult, a disrespect Only to bury […]
Continue Reading(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 […]
Continue Reading(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 […]
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