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(Source: San Francisco Bay View, by Dina Tesfay) – What took place in San Francisco on March 26, 2021, when hundreds of Eritrean and Ethiopian pro-regime supporters took to the streets, should be condemned for what it was – a reactionary, fascist mobilization no different than white supremacists storming the streets with chants to “make […]

(Source: Dr Abdul Bari) – Massacre, sufferings and desecration of religious places The armed conflict in Tigray, home to six million people in northern Ethiopia, began in the nights of 3-4 November 2020 and was between the Tigray Regional Government led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) supported by the police, militia fighters […]

(Source: Responsible Statecraft, by Alex de Waal) –   War broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in November. Five months later, the scale of the carnage, destruction, and destabilization is becoming evident. The spark for the fighting was an attack on army bases by soldiers loyal to the region’s ruling Tigray People’s Liberation […]

(Source: The New Humanitarian, By Ben Parker, GENEVA) – ‘A restrictive government, combined with insecurity and active fighting, can completely hamstring the aid response for months.’     People in northern Ethiopia get less humanitarian relief compared to those facing the impact of conflicts in northern Nigeria, Afghanistan, or Central African Republic, an independent poll […]

(Source: Foreign Affairs, By Nic Cheeseman and Yohannes Woldemariam) – Efforts to control information are only hardening the country’s divisions Late last month, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed finally admitted the worst-kept secret in Africa: that soldiers from neighboring Eritrea are fighting alongside Ethiopia’s military in the Tigray region of the country. For the last […]

(Source: Insecurity Insight) – On 4 November 2020 the Ethiopian army began a military offensive against the Tigray region’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Four months later the ongoing conflict has killed thousands of civilians, displaced over two million, forced thousands of refugees to flee to Sudan, and caused widespread destruction. At […]

(Source: International Bar Association) – The war in Ethiopia raged largely unnoticed for months due to an information blackout. As reports of atrocities emerge, Global Insight assesses the extent of the crisis. It has been several months since the war in Ethiopia began in Tigray in November with an attack by Tigrayan forces, which attracted […]

(Source: PBS, By Nick Schifrin) –   Transcript Audio The Ethiopian government is allowing journalists into Tigray in part because of international pressure, following reports of atrocities committed by the government and its allies. Nick schifrin reports on the anatomy of an event that Amnesty International calls a possible crime against humanity. Read the Full […]

(Source: Financial Times) – The PM’s supporters say he can win re-election and get the country back on track. Others fear too much damage has already been done. At a makeshift shelter in a school in Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Gezae Wolderaphael, an aquiline-featured young sesame farmer, shows what he says are rifle butt and […]

(Source: Al-Ahram Online) – Haitham Nouri keeps up with the latest developments in Tigray The Ethiopian government announced last week that Eritrean forces had begun to withdraw from the Tigray region. Only a few weeks earlier, Addis Ababa admitted that Eritrean forces were involved in the civil war that has been raging in Ethiopia’s northernmost […]

(Source: Republic World and AP) – Tigrayan refugees spoke of murder, rape and administrative efforts to suppress their ethnic group by their government and its Eritrean allies during the recent conflict in the Tigray region of their country. Tigrayan refugees spoke of murder, rape and administrative efforts to suppress their ethnic group by their government […]

(Source: AP, By CARA ANNA, HAMDAYET, Sudan) –    The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia. They arrive in heat that soars above 38 C (100 F), carrying the pain of gunshot wounds, […]