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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
Wosenyelew Tedla, MD, MSC. is a well-experienced physician and Assistant professor of clinical medicine. Moges Kelklie, BSc.,MBA is a technology executive in the Education industry. Welkait has always been one of the most strategic geopolitical hotspots in Ethiopia. More recently, it has become the defining point for the Amhara people, whose identity was erased Read more
Six weeks ago I wrote a blog “Are Colorado Ethiopians Stampeding from the Democratic Party? What’s The Deal?” in response to the Biden Administration’s blatant support for the Ethiopian separatist group, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a group trying to overthrow the current Ethiopian government of President Abiy Ahmed. The details, explanation of Ethiopians Read more
YODAHE ZEMICHAEL SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 An eerie parallel can be drawn between the American Civil War of the 19th century and the present-day predicament Ethiopia is facing. At its core, both are a fight between two dominant powers, one of union and another of secession. On the one side, there is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who came Read more
Addis Ababa, September 17, 2021 (Walta) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wrote an open letter to President Joseph Biden of the United States of America. Here is the open letter issued by the premier; Dear Mr. President, As I write this open letter to you, it comes at a time when innocent civilians including women, Read more
Above cartoon is from www.alamy.com Denton Collins **Please forward this article and findings on these links for USAID and White House, and request comment . Contact your US House Representative and Senator and share this article — a false pretense for supporting TPLF similar to Iraq’s fake WMD is being peddled while we don’t know “Where are the US taxpayers’ Read more
Posted by: Dehai Date: Saturday, 18 September 2021 For Immediate Release September 17, 2021 An ill-advised White House action tries to throw terrorist group a lifeline We are profoundly dismayed by the Executive Order President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed today, September 17, 2021. The executive order is based on disinformation orchestrated by the TPLF Read more
It will take an all-out diplomatic blitz to block the director-general’s impending reelection. SEPTEMBER 9, 2021, 2:58 PM By Anthony Ruggiero, a senior fellow at the foundation for Defence of Democracies. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is up for reelection. After repeatedly endorsing the Chinese Communist Party’s slow and secretive response to Read more
Robbie COREY-BOULET Wed, September 8, 2021, 9:06 AM At least 125 villagers were massacred in Ethiopia’s Amhara region earlier this month, doctors and local officials told AFP Wednesday, but rebels from neighbouring Tigray rejected claims they were responsible. It was the latest reported mass killing in the 10-month conflict in northern Ethiopia between government Read more
Promoting Economic Growth and Tranquility Should Replace Foreign Interventionism. The Case of Ethiopia Lawrence Freeman September 2, 2021 As the United States was in the final days of evacuation from its twenty year old failed invasion of Afghanistan, the Washington Post called on President Joe Biden to impose more harsh penalties on the nation of Ethiopia. There Read more
Mon, August 23, 2021, 6:53 AM ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency said on Monday. Ethiopia has been engulfed since last year in an armed conflict pitting the Read more
Doreen Nicoll August 13, 2021 In a country that prides itself on being united, Ethiopia’s internal conflict makes it difficult for outsiders to decipher exactly who is trying to help the nation and who is in it for their own gain. The Tigray region of Ethiopia is the source of this conundrum. Over five million Read more
Drawing a comparison between the two countries is both incorrect and dangerous. August 4, 2021 8:47 pm The opinion piece “In Ethiopia, echoes of Yugoslavia” (August 2) by Baroness Arminka Helič is based on a misconstrued parallel that is both factually and conceptually incorrect. In an attempt to draw a parallel with Yugoslavia, the author Read more
SPECIAL BRIEFING TIBOR P. NAGY, JR., ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUREAU OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS MICHAEL A. RAYNOR, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ETHIOPIA VIA TELECONFERENCE NOVEMBER 19, 2020 MR ICE: Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for this briefing on the situation in Ethiopia. I’m sure you’ve all seen Secretary’s Pompeo’s statements on the Read more
Above: Ethiopians and Eritreans of all stripes celebrating the removal of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front from power and the possibilities of a more united, prosperous countries with peace between them. Aurora High School, July, 2018, 7,00-10,000 in attendance (R. Prince photo)< Washington’s endgame in Ethiopia remains unclear. Is its goal to limit the emergence Read more
By Fuad Abdirahman NAIROBI, Kenya — Matthew David Bryden, the British citizen the Somali government sued for leaking national security information to foreign entities, calls himself “angry Matt” and “Dibjir”, in Somali a “stray”, but with connotations of debauchery. According to the people who know him, Bryden is both brutish and pharisaical. A former friend called him “nasty and Read more
Lawrence Freeman, July 31, 2021 Knowledgeable American analysts of U.S.-African relations are disturbed by the U.S. government’s treatment of Ethiopia. In the first six months of the Biden Presidency, we have witnessed a dramatic reversal of U.S. support for a long standing ally in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia, the second largest nation in Africa, Read more
Current trans-Atlantic powers’ (US and EU) negative reaction towards the crisis in Tigray and the Nile dam and the concurrent reaction mainly by the Ethiopian media seem to have somehow eclipsed the real nature of the US. One has to situate what the US really is within the context of the post-Cold War situation, end Read more
Many in the West quickly lined up against the Ethiopian government in its conflict with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. But reports of the exploitation of children in addition to other atrocities by the TPLF should cause Canada to reassess its dispassionate position and take a stand, write Ann Fitz-Gerald and Hugh Segal. By Ann Read more
Above: Thousands of Ethiopians gather in Addis Ababa on Thursday to show support to the country’s army against TPLF. OPINION | By KUNGU AL-MAHADI ADAM Today, dozens of thousands of Ethiopians gathered in Addis Ababa’s Meskel square to show support for the country’s military in its fight against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) Read more
at the top is an Ethiopian map from 1963 that is an administrative and political guide, but also includes cities, railroads and roads President Kwame Nkrumah, the great, and first president of Ghana once wrote a poem on Ethiopia. Kwame Nkrumah was the mind behind the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (Organisation de l’Union Africaine) which has become Nkrumah’s sculpture Read more
June 28, 2021 09:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A recent independent financial audit of the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed “an increasing trend of cases of misconduct, especially relating to fraud, harassment, non-compliance to professional standards and sexual misconduct.” In light of the audit, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS Read more
By Lawrence Freeman May 24, 2021 On May 23, U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, announced visa restrictions “for any current or former Ethiopian or Eritrean government officials, members of the security forces or other individuals …responsible for or complicit in undermining the resolution of the crisis in Tigray.” According to the State Department press Read more
Minilik Salsawi The recent report the Cable News Network (CNN) aired about Tigray State of Ethiopia is one-sided and lacks accuracy and comprehensiveness by shunning restoration of electric, telecom and internet services and other positive developments, a renowned writer Jeff Pearce said. In his latest social media post Pearce stated that CNN’s Nima Elbagir’s report had low appetite Read more
It’s more sinister than you thought. Put the pieces together, and it’s hard to escape the implication that the TPLF always intended to have a bloodbath, possibly one right across the country and in Addis if they had been more successful in battle. The clues are there. And evidence is waiting to be examined. Unfortunately, the 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. Lies, Intimidation, Threats — All to Help the Phony Tigray Genocide Narrative We now know why you’re not learning the whole truth about Tigray. Because the Read more
The TPLF, not the Abiy government and its allies, is responsible for the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia. Yohannes Gedamu Yohannes Gedamu is a lecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA, US. 10 May 2021 On November 29 of last year, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of his administration’s military offensive Read more
By Chris Taylor, PhD1 Introduction The thinking and experimentation in social science can have huge, unrepairable and intergenerational human costs if not managed well. This is the case in Ethiopia, where political entrepreneurs and ethnocentric nationalists have experimented and imposed a uniquely entrenched ethnic-based federalism in the country over the past three decades. These activities Read more
We are a group of Ethiopian Americans residing in New Jersey and New York. We are writing you this letter to express our concern regarding your recent statement on Ethiopia and the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey Feltman as an East African Envoy. Three years ago, Ethiopians paid a hefty price in blood and treasure to Read more
By Mary Alexander Chief copy editor and Facebook program coordinator, Africa Check May 2, 2021 “The Atlantic Ocean was known as Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century,” reads text on a graphic posted on Instagram last month. It includes what looks like a part of an old map showing the western coastline of Africa, the ocean labelled “Aethiopian Read more
Ethiopia is scheduled to have parliamentary elections on June 5, 2021. (courtesy of Addis Standard Facebook) May 7, 2021 Lawrence Freeman On June 5, Ethiopia will conduct national parliamentary elections that will be decisive not only for Ethiopia, but the entire Horn of Africa. On the eve of Special Envoy, Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman’s first trip Read more
18 April 2021 Two years ago, I published a historical thriller, Money, Blood and Conscience, about an Ethiopian-American love affair during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dictatorship. I later decided to add to the book a nonfiction “afterword,” an author’s note to the reader. It called for Ethiopia’s former TPLF rulers to be held Read more
A concerted effort is needed to prevent attacks on foreign-born migrants ahead of this year’s local elections. 12 APR 2021 / BY GODFREY MULAUDZI , LIZETTE LANCASTER AND GABRIEL HERTIS The past year has been deadly for African and Asian-born migrants in South Africa. And if past trends are anything to go by, it is about to become deadlier. Shocking footage of attacks emerged Read more
awasaguardian April 10, 2021 As Tigrayan militiamen were “preparing to film a scene” staging Eritrean soldiers mutilating women’s breasts, the refugee hostages who became actors forced to dressed up in Eritrean army uniform, made a daring escape in December, in a new damning revelation from Tigray disclosed Friday by an European migrant advocate Dr Natalia Paszkiewicz. Read more
April 6, 2021 Lawrence Africa, Anthony Blinken, creativity, Ethiopia, Ethiopian elections, Ethiopian identity, ethnic cleansing, ethnicity, ethno-nationalism, Fitsum Arega, human identity, Prime Minister Abiy, Prosperity Party, Senator Coons, Tigray, TPLF, U.S. Congress, US False Narratives of Ethiopian Conflict Are Toxic By Lawrence Freeman April 5, 2021 In two months, Ethiopia will have national elections, which can potentially shape the future of the largest nation in East Africa. False narratives of the cause and description Read more
