Striden om Nilen – spillet bak spenninga mellom Etiopia og Sudan
Proletären | Afrikas største damkonstruksjon kaster sine skygge over grensekonfliktene mellom Etiopia og Sudan, som risikerer å føre til vannkrig i det nordøstlige Afrika, skriver Marcus Jönsson for den svenske avisa Proletären.
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Situation Report EEPA HORN No. 71 – 30 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…
Violence in Tigray causes untold suffering
MSF | Relief Web | Since early November, a military escalation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has caused widespread violence and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Albert Viñas, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins…
Exclusive: Ethiopia to seek debt relief under G20 debt framework – ministry
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia plans to seek a restructuring of its sovereign debt under a new G20 common framework and is looking at all the available options, the country’s finance ministry told Reuters on Friday.
Ethiopia’s government…
Situation Report EEPA HORN No. 70 – 29 January 20
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…
A pogrom is happening in Ethiopia
The Globe & Mail | Robert Rotberg
Ethiopia is killing its own citizens, wantonly. That is chilling, but true: By attempting to extirpate Ethiopians of Tigrayan ethnicity and heritage, Ethiopia’s military and government stands accused…
US ‘Directly’ Presses Eritrea to Withdraw Forces From Tigray
Associated Press — The United States says it has directly “pressed senior levels” of Eritrea’s government to immediately withdraw its troops from neighboring Ethiopia, where witnesses have described them looting and hunting down civilians…
Joint NGO Letter call for a Special Session on the deteriorating human rights situation in Ethiopia
28 January 2021 | OPEN LETTER |
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland
Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned human rights non-governmental organizations,…
Ethiopia Moves Artillery to Sudanese Border After Deadly Clashes
Bloomberg | Sudan delegation met Saudi officials to discuss crisis. Tension adds to dispute over construction of giant hydro dam.
Ethiopia moved heavy weapons to disputed territory on its border with Sudan, according to people familiar with…
Ethiopia’s leader won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s accused of war crimes.
Washingtonpost (Opinion) — FIFTEEN MONTHS ago Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ending his country’s conflict with neighboring Eritrea. Now he may be perpetrating grave crimes against humanity. After…