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Do the current boxes of ethnic regions represent the diverse nature of Ethiopians’ identities? Thousands of identities are possible if we explore the three-generation family tree of Ethiopia’s population. While the unity within this diversity of Ethiopians has overcome generational challenges, including the victory of Adwa, tribalistic agendas continue to thrive at home and in Read more
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor 13 Apr 2022 BAR Contributing Editor Ann Garrison reports from Ethiopia. I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), who ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they Read more
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor 20 Apr 2022 BAR contributing editor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is experiencing a building boom, which includes all the foreign embassies near the airport. The din of construction is non-stop on weekdays. Lots of sky high office buildings and condos underway. Even Read more
Rasmus Sonderriis Dec 22, 2021 Ethiopia at the receiving end of Biden’s ‘woke’ foreign policy: “A BLOODBATH SITUATION” Pacifist virtue-signaling at the expense of American values and interests. This sums up the Biden administration’s backstabbing of a hard-won democracy in Ethiopia, executed by a veritable pantheon of villains to conservatives, from Obama era officials to Read more
former Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the British Museum to return a collection of Ethiopian religious treasures to Africa. Lord Carey said he hoped the museum would act with “urgency” and give the artefacts — called Tabots — back to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He said he was frustrated the artefacts, considered sacred in Ethiopia, Read more
Explanation of vote after the vote by Amanuel Giorgio Deputy Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the UN During the 11th Special Emergency Session Of the United Nations General Assembly 2 March 2022, New York Mr. President, Eritrea is taking the floor in explanation of vote after the vote on the draft resolution A/ES-11/L1 Read more
February 28, 2022 Lawrence Adwa, Africa, Berlin Conference, citizen, colonialism, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian identity, ethno-nationalism, GERD, HR6600, human rights, Italy, Meles Zenawi, Menelik II, Nation State, sovereignty, Tigray Celebrate Ethiopia’s March 1, 1896 Victory at Adwa- A Victory For Africa and All Nations Lawrence Freeman February 28, 2022 This year’s celebration of the victory at Adwa, 126 years ago, has special significance. Although the war against the TPLF has largely been won, Ethiopia is under attack Read more
A one-sided U.S. approach provided political cover to the TPLF insurgency. Washington now has an opportunity to create the conditions for peace. By Bronwyn Bruton, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, and Ann Fitz-Gerald, the director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a professor of international security at Wilfrid Laurier University. DECEMBER Read more
BY GRAHAM PEEBLES The outrage felt by Ethiopians at the Western-backed terrorist attack on their country is spreading across the Horn of Africa and parts of the continent more widely. A great movement of solidarity is emerging as Ethiopia’s neighbors, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya join hands, standing together against terror, imperial interference and mainstream media Read more
By Hans Aage Gravaas, Oslo, PhD in Intercultural Studies December 21. 2021 WAR: Ethiopia’s freedom struggle against TPLF continues; a struggle for national unity, against ethnic extremism, political civil disobedience, and international interference. Simultaneously, a fierce media war is being fought between conflicting narratives. Building national unity, identity and community across more than 80 ethnolinguistic people groups Read more
It was exactly this time a full year ago (about 10 pm Ethiopian time) on November 3, 2020 that commandos of the Tigray Special Forces and affiliated TPLF aligned militias attacked 5 bases of the Northern command of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces gaining control of the bases and seizing what has been reported as Read more
16-Dec-2021 Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde met with African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina while on a working visit to Côte d’Ivoire. Meeting Thursday at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan, they discussed Ethiopia’s current and post-Covid-19 development priorities. Describing the African Development Bank as Ethiopia’s development partner of choice, President Zewde commended the Bank Read more
Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News Posted at Dec 17 2021 04:28 PM MANILA— The Philippines is voting against a European Union-backed resolution before the United Nations Human Rights Council calling for an international investigation on allegations of violations and abuses in Ethiopia amid a year-old conflict in Tigray. The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special Read more
30-Nov-2021 The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved $217 million in loans to fund a project that will improve road transport services in Kenya’s northeastern region. The loans comprise $75 million from the non-concessional window of the Bank Group and $142 million from the concessional lending division, known as the Read more
November 22, 2021 In an interview with Addis Media Network, on November 18, 2021, I discuss how we must fight against efforts for regime change in Ethiopia, and instead promote a policy for economic development. I identify that the so called mainstream media are not objective truth seekers, but part of the propaganda arm of Read more
November 26, 2021 It is instructive to read Jeff Pearce’s article; Ethiopia: Western Diplomats Meet in Secret to Decide How to Help the TPLF , based on the secret zoom meeting with retired Western diplomats, including a former U.S. official, and Berhane Gebre-Christos, leader of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front-TPLF. Their secret discussion was on how to remove Read more
Jeff Pearce The legend is that angels helped build the stunning churches hewn out of volcanic rock in Lalibela centuries ago. If you’re a person of faith, you might choose to believe that the angels watched over and guided members of the Desalegn family. They were among the first who escaped the TPLF occupation of Lalibela. Read more
Jeff Pearce The West’s Horn of Africa experts have been meeting with a TPLF leader and TPLF/OLF supporters in secret, even as its governments claim to be impartial — TPLF’s Berhane Gebre-Christos speaks as TPLF member, proposed head of “transitional government” (limo/Uber drivers) and Washington-based Ethio-American diaspora. Donald Yamamoto, recently the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Read more
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 8, 2021 BY FREE PLANET PUBLISHING Your Excellency: I am a US citizen who has advised Ethiopia’s anti-TPLF opposition on an unpaid basis since 1991 and am probably the TPLF’s most outspoken foreign critic. My partisan perspective on the Tigray conflict is surely distinct from a career diplomat’s such as yours. Yet I take the Read more
Bahru Zewde – —- Following the reported capture of the strategic towns of Dessie and Kombolcha by the forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the world is abuzz with the imminent fall of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. CNN and the rest have been describing the events in lurid terms. The US embassy Read more
David Steinman, economist (982168) Wed, November 10, 2021 Calls American demands on Addis Ababa counterproductive Economist David Steinman calls U.S. policy on Ethiopia’s civil war as ‘counterproductive’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — David Steinman, the American economist who advised Ethiopia’s democracy movement that overthrew the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dictatorship in 2018, published Read more
My name is Ghidey Zeratsion. I am one of the founders of TPLF and have lived in Norway for 30 years as a political refugee opposed to the ruling party of Ethiopia the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). I am sending you this so you can have a balanced reporting on the situation. If Read more
Above map added Report by Amnesty International Women raped at gunpoint, robbed and assaulted Lack of medical care after TPLF fighters damaged and looted hospital Abuses committed as Tigray conflict has spilled over into Amhara region Sixteen women from the town of Nifas Mewcha in Ethiopia’s Amhara region told Amnesty International they were raped by Read more
NOVEMBER 3, 2021 By Ann Fitz-Gerald and Hugh Segal In the post-Covid world, Western democracies have lamented the absence of commitment to the collective good – “shared common values” – among states. But their response to the conflict in Northern Ethiopia today suggests otherwise. The positions of the US and its Western partners on the conflict reinforce Read more
Google: Terrorism Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. United Nations The UN General Assembly Resolution 49/60 (adopted on December 9, 1994), titled “Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism,” contains a provision describing terrorism: Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of Read more
BY TYLER DURDEN MONDAY, OCT 18, 2021 Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, Washington’s escalating hybrid warfare operations against Ethiopia may have cost the United States its strategic influence over the globally-vital Red Sea/Suez sea lanes. The U.S. abandonment of Ethiopia has forced its government to seek allies and protection elsewhere, and Russia, China, and Turkey have Read more
Jeff Pearce Writer person. Books – Prevail, The Karma Booth, Gangs in Canada; in June 2021, Winged Bull, a bio of Henry Layard, the Victorian era’s Indiana Jones. (Warning: Photos of TPLF war dead at end of article could disturb some readers) Sources say today that local militia and soldiers for the Ethiopian army have Read more
June 28, 2021 Four years after he broke the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein quit the Washington Post and spent six months looking at the relationship between the CIA and the press. The result was a 25,000-word cover story in the October 20, 1977 edition of Rolling Stone called “The CIA and the Media.” The article, still online at carlbernstein.com, Read more
October 28, 2021 By Teshome M. Borago Borkena The United Nations (UN) is facing new scandal as Tigrayan-TPLF rebel leader is seen hiding in a prefabricated container house often used by UN agencies like WFP. Sources also say the marxist TPLF head Debretsion Gebremichael’s recorded speech might have been from a shipping container in Read more
The American-Ethiopian Public Affairs Committee (AEPAC) released a statement claiming that thousands of the approximately 100,000-strong Ethiopian American community in the state switched their votes from Democrat to Republican to protest the national ruling party’s regime change campaign against their homeland. American pundits are scrambling to interpret the Republicans’ surprising victory in this week’s Virginia elections which Read more
The American Hybrid War on Ethiopia is the top proxy war of the New Cold War Andrew Korybko October 26, 2021 Ethiopia and Pakistan are two countries that appear to have almost nothing to do with one another but are actually very similar in many ways. Both are either respectively suffering from, or have already Read more
October 6, 2021 ‘Humanitarian imperialism’, information warfare, and the weaponization of economic and financial instruments are the means to this end. The US and Ethiopia have been allies for years but the former risks turning the latter into an enemy with its latest provocations. Not only did US President Joe Biden ignore Ethiopian Prime Minister Read more
For nearly a year, warmonger and USAID administrator Samantha Power has been shrieking about famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray, and demanding the humanitarian corridor that 428 massive food aid trucks have now mysteriously disappeared into. Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor 29 Sep 2021 Since July 12, the UN World Food Program (UNWFP) has sent 466 food aid Read more
In a letter addressed to WHO’s Africa headquarters, the foreign ministry says the four officials must leave by Friday. For your Information: 14 May 2020, Burundi has ordered the country’s top World Health Organization (WHO) representative and three other experts coordinating the coronavirus response to leave the country. The expelled officials include the WHO’s representative Dr Walter Read more
By Jennifer Peltz | AP Yesterday at 7:29 p.m. EDT UNITED NATIONS — Ethiopia told the international community Saturday to steer clear of sanctions and avoid meddling over its war with forces from its Tigray region, and to let the African Union work on bringing all parties together. Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders, Read more
By ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED: 04:36 EDT, 25 September 2021 | UPDATED: 13:47 EDT, 25 September 2021 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – One man said he counted 55 corpses as he escaped from his town in northern Ethiopia, stepping over bodies scattered in the streets. Another asserted he was rounded up with about 20 men who were shot in front of him. Read more
