Friday, 1 July 2022, 5:53 am Article: Alastair Thompson Are There TPLF Ethiopia Insurgency Training & Support Operations In Uganda? Mystery Document Alleges: Covert Operation has US/Egypt Support Operations Coordinated between South Sudan, TPLF and Uganda Planning began December 2021 By Alastair Thompson The document that follows below was provided to Read more
Africa
‘Total bloodbath’: Witnesses describe Ethiopia ethnic attack
Associated Press Sat, June 25, 2022 at 9:38 AM The Amhara Association of America says more than 500 civilians were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia region The heavily armed men appeared around the small farming village in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, frightening residents already on edge after recent clashes between government troops and rebels. “The militants assured Read more
How Israel’s Falash Mura immigration from Ethiopia became a painful 30-year saga, with no end in sight
By Cnaan Liphshiz June 14, 2022 11:53 am GONDAR, Ethiopia (JTA) — It was love at first sight for Wesom Mellesse when his wife stepped into his metal shop 17 years ago. “Her dad took her into my shop because he needed me to fix their plow and when I saw her, we understood that Read more
Pan-Africanism takes center stage in discussions at the People’s Summit for Democracy
By Natalia Marques June 11, 2022 “They told you and me we came from the Congo. Isn’t that what they told you? I mean, isn’t that what they taught us in school? So we came from the Congo. We are savages and cannibals and all that kind of stuff from the Congo; they’ve been Read more
Some Ethiopians claim forced recruitment by Tigrayan forces
Above:Filimon, 18, a captured fighter from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), sits in a guarded hospital room in Dubti Referral Hospital, Afar region, Ethiopia February 24, 2022. Picture taken February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Tiks By Giulia Paravicini and Katharine Houreld ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, May 16 (Reuters) – Authorities in Ethiopia’s war-shattered Tigray region are forcing young Read more
Ethiopia’s mass arrests show rift with former Amhara allies
Fri, June 3, 2022, 4:25 AM NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Once a key ally of Ethiopia’s federal government in its deadly war in the country’s northern Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region is now experiencing government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. More than 4,500 people have been arrested in Read more
የብልጽግና ፓርቲ በዜጎች ላይ እያደረሰ ያለውን የመብት ጥሰት እንዲያቆም በጥብቅ እንጠይቃለን
Posted on May 23, 2022 by SOCEPP-CAN ከኢፖአኮ-በካናዳ የቀረበ መግለጫ የኢትዮጵያ የፖለቲካ እስረኞች አንድነት ኮሚቴ-በካናዳ (ኢፖአኮ-በካናዳ)፣ ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ በዜጎቸ ላይ እየደረሰ ያለውን የሰብዓዊ ሆኑ ሌሎችም መሠረታዊ የሰውለጆች መብት ጥሰትን አሁንም እንደበፊቱ በቅርብ እየተከታተለ በደል የሚፈጽሙ ግለሰቦች ይሁኑ መንግሥታዊ አካላትና ተቋማትን ጉዳዩ ለሚመለከታቸው ሁሉ በዓለምአቀፍ ደረጃ በማሳወቅ ተጠያቂ እንዲሆኑ ሲያደርግ የቆየ ህጋዊ የሰብዓዊ መብት ተሟጋች ተቋም ነው። ኢፖአኮ-በካናዳ አሁን Read more
በደሴ አጠቃላይ ስፔሻላይዝድ ሆስፒታል የትግራይ ወራሪ ሀይል ያደረሰው ተቋማዊ ጉዳት – Facility assessment report after TPLF terrorist left of @ Dessie
ህውሃት ደሴንና አካባቢውን ወሮ በቆየበት በአጭር ጊዜያት ውስጥ ያደረሰው ከባባድ ጥፋቶች The horrible and nasty destruction of TPLF during their short invasion of DESSIE በደሴ አጠቃላይ ስፔሻላይዝድ ሆስፒታል ደሴ ከተማና አካባቢ ለሚኖሩ፣ ደቡብ ወሎ፣ ሰሜን ወሎ፣ ዋግህምራና ኦረሚያ ልዩ ዞን በከፊል ለሰሜን ሸዋ ነዋሪዎች አገልግሎት የሚሰጥ በተጨማሪም አጎራባች ክልሎች በከፊል ትግራይና አፋር ክልል ሙሉ አቅሙን Read more
South Sudan, Ethiopia Sign 100 MW Electricity Trade Agreement
Charné Hundermark The Republic of South Sudan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with regional neighbor Ethiopia for the purchase of 100 MW of electricity over the next three years. With plans to gradually increase imports to 400 MW, the MoU is key to meeting electricity demand in South Sudan, while increasing revenue for Read more
Filthy Rich Texas Congressman Michael McCaul Gunning for Poor Ethiopia!
Michael McCaul (R-TX) is the richest member of the U.S. House of Representatives with assets of nearly $126 million. As a member of Congress, McCaul earns $174,000 a year. But for Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) who is worth over $200 million, McCaul would have been the filthy richest member in the entire legislative branch of the U.S. government! For Read more
Speaking Truth to Power: United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
HUMAN RIGHTS This message is prepared in consultation with members of the Executive Committee of OTAGE as a follow up to an earlier letter (attached below) sent to the UN Secretary General and the President of the UN Human Rights Council. Despite our good faith efforts, the two organizations have turned deaf ears to our Read more
The frontline voices: Tigrayans speak on the realities of life under an insurgency regime
The frontline voices:Tigrayans speak on therealities of life under aninsurgency regime Ann Fitz-Gerald Ethiopians of Tigrayan descent, residing both inside and outside of Tigray, have contacted this researcher to request greater scrutiny of grassroots Tigrayan opinion on the ongoing conflict in Northern Ethiopia. These “silenced voices” have been characterized by many Western analysts and English-language Read more
Rigging the Game: Western Attempts to Marginalize Ethiopian Sovereignty
Why does the West want to dismiss an already existing credible international investigation regarding the current conflict in Ethiopia and have their own appointed investigators? This begs the questions of the US and UN priorities and policy towards Ethiopia. They have amplified and echoed concerns for Tigray and TPLF’s talking points. They have turned a Read more
The Rise of Ethnic Extremism in Ethiopia is an Opportunity for Failure
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
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia
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
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia – Part II
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
“A BLOODBATH SITUATION”
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
Send Ethiopian treasures back, former Archbishop of Canterbury tells British Museum
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 the delegation of Eritrea
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
Embrace Victory at Adwa and GERD to Unify All Citizens From U.S. Attack on Ethiopian Sovereignty-Defeat HR6600
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
To End Ethiopia’s War, Biden Needs to Correct Course
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
Ethiopia: Historic Battle for the Mother of Africa
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
Nation building – an uphill battle
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
The Northern Command Attacks And The Crime of Genocide-Part One
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
Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde and African Development Bank chief Akinwumi Adesina discuss Ethiopia’s development priorities
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
PH votes against resolution calling for rights probe in Ethiopia
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
African Development Bank Group Board approves $217 million to finance vital Horn of Africa road project
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
Biden Government Must Replace Regime Change for Ethiopia With Policy for Economic Development
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
U.S. Diplomats Collaborate With TPLF to Plot Removal of PM Abiy From Governing Ethiopia
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
Ethiopia: Rape, Dread and Despair Amid the Churches of Lalibela
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
The West’s Diplomats Meet in Secret to Decide How to Help the TPLF. My latest article on Medium. Incredible what former and current diplomats say in the closed Zoom conference.
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
An Open Letter to US Special Envoy Jeffrey Feltman
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
The age of disinformation: what exactly is happening in Ethiopia?
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
American Economist Publishes Open Letter Critical of US Policy on Tigray War
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
Now I have to break my silence.
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
Ethiopia: Survivors of TPLF attack in Amhara describe gang rape, looting and physical assaults
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
