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‘Ethiopia to welcome mediation of Turkey with Sudan’

Anadolu Agency | 'War is not an agenda. If mediation is offered by Turkey, Ethiopia will appreciate it,' says Foreign Ministry spokesperson ANKARA If offered, Ethiopia would appreciate the Turkish government's mediation on the recent border…
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Ethiopia hires lobbying help amid dual threats from Egypt, human rights critics

Foreign Lobby | Ethiopia has hired a new lobbying firm for outreach to Congress and the Joe Biden administration as the country battles a diplomatic crisis with Egypt and ethnic strife at home. The Ethiopian Embassy in Washington signed a…
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Finding a Path to Peace in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region War has devastated Ethiopia’s northernmost region.

International Crisis Group | Pending comprehensive national dialogue, Addis Ababa should ease Tigray’s immediate predicament, engaging elements of the authorities it unseated to govern the area and ensure that aid reaches the millions in need.…
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Ethiopia’s secret war in Tigray region: Ethnic killings, rapes, near-starvation reported

Fox News | If the fighting doesn't end soon, an American woman with family in the region said, "we'll be left without families" Many women have "conclusively and without a doubt" been raped in the Tigray region, home to Ethiopia’s secretive…
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When black lives don’t seem to matter

The Spectator | A man is filmed dying under a policeman’s knee in Minneapolis. Riots break out, statues are toppled and the Western world erupts with civil unrest. More than 50,000 people are massacred, tortured and raped, leaving orphaned…

Er Norge redd for å stille krav til Etiopia?

Bistandsaktuelt | MENINGER: Den nye partnerlandstrategien baseres kun på «de gode historiene om Abiy Ahmeds regjering». Hvorfor tør ikke Norge å stille tydelige krav til Etiopias myndigheter? spør Dereje T. Asefa. Jeg fikk tilsendt den…
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Ethiopia: Concern grows over health of jailed political leaders

Al Jazeera | Several Ethiopian opposition figures charged with ‘terrorism’ last year began a hunger strike in late January, Concerns are growing about the health of several imprisoned Ethiopian opposition figures who launched a hunger strike…
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Ethiopia: Journalist attacked and threatened with death

International Federation of Journalists | Ethiopian freelance journalist Lucy Kassa was attacked at her home in Addis Ababa on 8 February by three unidentified armed men in plain clothes who threatened to kill her for her reporting. The International…

Korrespondent skal ha blitt angrepet og truet i eget hjem: − Jeg er veldig redd

VG | Mandag skal tre bevæpnede menn i sivilt tøy ha tatt seg inn i leiligheten til Bistandsaktuelt korrespondent, Lucy Kassa (29), i Addis Abeba. Kassa har vært Bistandsaktuelts korrespondent i to år. Hun sier til VG at hun først ikke…

Etiopisk minister erkjenner at det har skjedd voldtekter i Tigray

NTB | Etiopias kvinneminister sier at det utvilsomt har skjedd voldtekter i den krigsherjede Tigray-regionen i Etiopia. Uttalelse er en sjelden innrømmelse av at kvinner og jenter i Tigray er blitt utsatt for seksuelle overgrep under regjeringsstyrkenes…