One person was shot dead Tuesday when soldiers opened fire on an anti-government protest in the capital of Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern Tigray region, a medical official said. The protest in the city of Mekele was timed to coincide with a visit by religious leaders from the national capital Addis Ababa, part of an effort by […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. agencies received approval from Ethiopia’s government Monday to send 25 more staff members to embattled Tigray, a region where the United Nations says hunger is growing and much of the area has been inaccessible to humanitarian workers. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric called the clearance “a first step towards ensuring that […]
Ethiopia-Tigray Conflict Ethiopia re-enters the abyss of war | 29 January 2021 | Ethiopia Insight The Ethiopian federal government’s “law enforcement operation” in Tigray aimed to capture the rebellious rulers in the northern regional state. Thus far, however, the core leadership is at large, and the campaign has further exposed the country’s political fragility, pushing it […]
The Washington Free Bacon | Two new videos have emerged showing what appear to be war crimes in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. A video released Monday by a watchdog site shows the bodies of at least 20 men strewn across the road of a Tigrayan village. The watchdog site reports that Eritrean and Ethiopian […]
Bistandsaktuelts reporter i Etiopia ble mandag formiddag angrepet og slått ned i sitt eget hjem. Tre bevæpnede menn trengte seg inn i boligen Lucy Kassa leier i hovedstaden Addis Abeba. Angriperne tok med seg pc-en hennes og truet henne med døden dersom hun fortsatte å skrive om situasjonen i den krigsherjede Tigray-regionen. – De kom […]
Bergens Tidende | En av verdens ledende eksperter på Etiopia, professor Kjetil Tronvoll, hetses av etiopiske myndigheter og trues på livet av etiopiere i eksil. Tronvoll er professor i freds- og konfliktstudier ved Bjørknes Høyskole i Oslo og har forsket på Etiopia og Eritrea siden begynnelsen av 1990-tallet. Han har også bakgrunn som professor i […]
Warfar History Network | National Interest | Troops of the British Commonwealth, particularly those of South Africa, played a key role in driving the Italians from Somaliland and Ethiopia. Here’s What You Need to Know: For this greed, Mussolini paid a heavy price in North and East Africa. Boarding a train at the famous station built […]
Al Jazeera | Police say Abdirashid Abdunur, intelligence chief for Dhusamareeb town, was killed in the blast claimed by al-Shabab. A roadside bomb went off just outside the central Somalia town of Dhusamareeb on Sunday, killing 12 agents working for the National Intelligence and Security Agency, police said. Those killed included Abdirashid Abdunur, the head […]
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An alliance of Somali opposition parties proposed the creation of a national council of lawmakers, opposition leaders and civil society to govern the Horn of Africa nation after the president’s term expired on Monday with no clear succession plan. The power vacuum and divisions between political leaders was a boost to the […]
BBC | Every day, more and more reports of starvation trickle out of the Tigray region of Ethiopia that has been hit by conflict. On Wednesday, Mark Lowcock, chief of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations, warned of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in which aid still wasn’t reaching many affected people. Earlier in the week, […]