Egypt: Countries must reach binding deal on Nile dam
MEMO | Amid regional tension over the project, countries along the Nile must reach a legally binding agreement on the filling and operations of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD), or Hidase Dam, according to Egypt's president, Anadolu…
Foreign meddling as a source of state fragility in Ethiopia
MEMO Opinion | State fragility is a multidimensional concept that is often characterized by deficiencies in one or more areas of the core functions of the state: legitimacy, authority (competing claimants to power), and capacity (weak capacity…
Ethiopia accuses Sudan of occupying its lands, fighting by proxy for third party
MEMO | The border area has witnessed tension between Ethiopia and Sudan that is still escalating-Getty
Ethiopia has accused its neighbour Sudan on Friday of occupying part of its territory and fighting by proxy for a "third party".
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Ethiopia says Tigray back to ‘normalcy;’ witnesses disagree.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP | Cara Anna) — Ethiopia’s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has “returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe terrified Tigray residents hiding in bullet-marked…
The horrors of the Tigray war: Eyewitness accounts
Eritrea Hub | This is a slightly shortened article by Alem Berhe
When the war broke out, I was in the beautiful capital of Tigray – Mekelle, visiting immediate family. On November 3, I sat down for dinner at GG Hotel in the Adi Shumduhun…
“They Have Destroyed Tigray, Literally”: Mulugeta Gebrehiwot speaks from the mountains of Tigray
Transcript Call between Mulugeta Gebrehiwot and Alex de Waal 27 January 2021
Additional background information and audio are available on the WPF blog, “Reinventing Peace.” For more information: worldpeacefoundation.org
Listen to the interview…
Somali men ‘forced into Eritrean army’ under impression they were signing up for security jobs in Qatar
The Telegraph | The men are thought to be being sent to Tigray to fight in Ethiopia's civil war.
Anger is mounting in Somalia over allegations young men are being secretly recruited and sent to Eritrea to fight in Ethiopia's civil war.
Three…
Etiopiere i Norge forteller: Fedrene våre ble drept av eritreiske soldater
©Bistandsaktuelt | I over en måned levde Sahle Semere og Hailay Berhe i uvisshet om hva som skjedde med familiemedlemmer i Tigray. Begge er etiopiere og bosatt i Norge. Familiene deres befant seg på landsbygda i regionen som havnet i krig…
Chinese ambassador, Ethiopia capital mayor agree to enhance economic partnership
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese ambassador to Ethiopia Zhao Zhiyuan and Mayor of Ethiopia's capital city Adanech Abiebie agreed on Friday to enhance the economic partnership between the two countries.
In a press statement, Abiebie…
Were Orthodox Christians massacred in Ethiopia?
American Magazine | The Jesuit Review | Kevin Clarke
With journalists, aid workers and U.N. officials largely cut off and local internet and mobile services blocked, much remains unknown about what has been happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray…