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(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 […]

(Source: Addis Expressions, By Rihana Nesrudin, 13 July 2021) –  “A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power… which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion… condemns itself to death.” Chris Hedges One chilly summer evening, by what I can only recall to be a random […]

(Source: Reuters, By Dawit Endeshaw) –   ADDIS ABABA July 19 (Reuters) – Forces from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have mounted attacks in neighbouring Afar region, a spokesman for Afar said on Monday, marking an expansion of an eight-month-old conflict into a previously untouched area. Tigrayan fighters crossed into Afar on Saturday and Afar forces […]

(Source: Leigh Day, Press Office, Posted on 19 July 2021) – A group of Tigrayan academics has written to the UK Government’s CDC Group PLC (CDC) raising concerns that inadequate steps have been taken to ensure a £65 million telecoms investment is not used to fund serious human rights abuses in Ethiopia’s armed conflict in […]

This is an English translation of a public statement released by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed official Twitter account on 18 July 2021. The enemy we are facing is an enemy which is the cancer of Ethiopia. The junta is probably the only group in history that used its political power to disintegrate its own country. […]

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