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Warning to all Ethiopian diasporas against the AGENT PROVOCATURES of the Prosperity Party Gospel-led by the Genocidal Abiy Ahmed Ethiopians are enduring severe socio-political and economic crises, marked by ongoing ethnic conflicts (especially in Amhara/Oromia), massive displacement, widespread human rights abuses (killings, torture, disappearances by state forces), food insecurity (millions needing aid), rising poverty (72% multidimensionally poor), Read more
The security and human rights situation in Ethiopia, and the broader Horn of Africa, has sharply deteriorated amid recurrent and escalating conflicts, placing already vulnerable populations at increased risk of grave abuses. This deterioration is starkly evident in the Amhara region, where conflict between the Fano, an ethnic Amhara militia, and the federal government has intensified Read more
Mengistu Musie (Dr.). Mmusie2@gmail.com The issue of Ethiopia’s access to the sea and the propaganda currently being orchestrated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s administration is now one of the most dominant and divisive topics in the country’s political discourse. The rhetoric surrounding the so-called “port question” is not new. It is a recycled narrative Read more
Dr. Mengistu Musie Today, Ethiopia has witnessed one of the most barbaric acts imaginable—an atrocity that defies human conscience and stands as one of the darkest moments in modern history. The soldiers of Abiy Ahmed’s regime committed an act so cruel and inhumane that it shocks the moral sensibility of the world. After capturing Read more
Mengistu Musie (Dr) Mmusie2@gmail.com It now appears far too late for Abiy Ahmed’s government and its state-sponsored media army of propagandists to reverse the tide of public opinion or meaningfully influence the masses. The population has grown increasingly disillusioned, and the propaganda machinery that once seemed effective is now exposed, predictable, and incapable of masking Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Joint Statement of Ethiopian American Diaspora Organizations and AEPAC on the Ethiopian Government’s Dialogue Commission Philadelphia, PA – August 27, 2025 – A coalition of Ethiopian American diaspora organizations, in partnership with the American Ethiopian Public Affairs Committee (AEPAC), today issued a joint statement rejecting the legitimacy of the Ethiopian government’s Dialogue Commission Read more
Mengistu Musie (Dr.) Mmusie2@gmail.com April 5, 2025 April 1, 2025, will be remembered as another dark chapter in the tragic and bloody history unfolded in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. On this grim day, the peaceful town of Birakat, located in the Mecha District of Northern Gojjam, was rocked by a brutal massacre carried out by forces Read more
Mengistu Musie (Dr.) Mmusie2@gmail Ethiopia, a nation with centuries of resilience and civilization, is now witnessing one of the darkest chapters in its modern history under the leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Once heralded as a reformer and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Abiy has transformed his administration into a criminal enterprise that employs Read more
The Use of Divide-and-Rule Tactics by Dictatorial Regimes to Maintain Power and the Resilience of Unity Against Oppression Throughout history, dictatorial regimes have wielded power through cunning and calculated strategies, none more effective than the sinister art of “divide and rule.” By exploiting ethnic and religious differences, these regimes fracture societies, ensuring their grip Read more
December 07, 2024 By Martha G. Selassie Pressure by International community ( United States. (UN, EU, IMF,WB, Arab League), on Ethiopian government to change the current Ethnic federalism Constitution, will make significant changes to bring peace and security to the Ethiopia and the region, HOA. Replacing Ethiopia’s current system of ethnic federalism with a “geo-federal” Read more
Jane Stevenson Published Dec 02, 2024 Good Shepherd Ministries, which provides about 900 meals daily to anyone in need in Toronto, says it has about 5,000 letters stuck at Canada Post during the strike that were supposed to be mailed during its holiday donation appeal which raises about a half-milllion dollars. Photo by Good Shepherd Read more
By Girma Berhanu Introduction: A few years ago, I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, on the sites of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Last week, I visited a Jewish cultural center/museum in Riga, Latvia, with similar content. The two camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the one in Riga, are now prominent memorial sites on the holocaust Read more
To: President Joe Biden Via: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan From: Mesfin Mekonen and 10 Concerned Ethiopian-American Civic Organizations Subject: Averting Civil War in Ethiopia Date: October 30, 2024 Mr. President, I am writing on behalf of the Ethiopian-American community to alert you to the imminent danger of civil war in Ethiopia. As a longtime representative of our Read more
On October 23, members of the Ethiopian-American community met in the US Senate’s Kennedy Caucus Room to discuss constitutional reform and brief congressional staff about the path to democracy, peace, and prosperity in Ethiopia. A summary of the meetings follows: the constitutional conference and the congressional briefing. In addition to the comments described below, Amanda Read more
Debt Justice has recently identified Capital Group, BlackRock, and Franklin Advisors as the three largest known holders of Ethiopian bonds. These institutions represent a significant portion of Ethiopia’s international debt landscape, underscoring the critical role of private creditors in the country’s economic stability. According to the latest report from Debt Justice, ten major bondholders collectively Read more
By:Addis Insight August 16, 2024 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has laid out a series of critical deadlines and stringent preconditions that Ethiopia must meet to access funds under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). This comes at a crucial time when the Ethiopian economy is navigating complex challenges, including a liquidity crisis and the need Read more
When Abiy Ahmed took power in Ethiopia, he was feted at home and abroad as a great unifier and reformer. Two years later, terrible violence was raging. How did people get him so wrong? By Tom Gardner Thu 20 Jun 2024 00.00 EDT ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about Abiy Ahmed.” The message flashed up Read more
Aklog Birara12 hours ago Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, his army was implicated in human-rights atrocities. (Photograph by Alex Welsh) “The numerous tribes who inhabit the Ethiopian state are being forcibly kept from European colonialism by Abyssinian rulers whose aim is to function as champions of all black people so as to attack and destroy Western culture” Roman Read more
BY JULIANNE HILL JUNE 17, 2024, 2:54 PM CDT Daniel Abebe, vice provost for academic affairs and governance at the University of Chicago Law School, will become the dean of Columbia Law School on Aug. 1. (Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago/Higher Learning Commission) Daniel Abebe, vice provost for academic affairs and governance at the Read more
Aklog Birara (Dr) I have been trying to draw international attention to ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of genocide, crimes of rape and economic crimes in Ethiopia for months. These state government and non-government led crimes persist because there is no accountability. The international community has the duty to respond decisively to the Read more
By Solomon GebreSelassie May 4, 2024 The transcript of the Tanzania meeting between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and the Abiy regime as recounted by Jal Maroo, leader of the OLA, and as translated into Amharic by Tsegaye Hailu Balcha [1] was recently posted online. In it, Jal Maroo gave us a blow-by-blow account Read more
UN Inquiry Urgently Needed; End Impunity for Abusive Commanders Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims rest at a campsite in Lalibela in the Amhara region, two months after the Ethiopian military regained control of the town from Fano militia, January 7, 2024. ©2024 Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images Ethiopian armed forces summarily executed scores of civilians in Read more
BY MESFIN TEGENU, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 02/23/24 5:52 PM ET It has taken three weeks, but the world is slowly confirming the details and coming to grips with a shocking atrocity in Africa’s second most populous nation. In the Ethiopian village of Merawi, government soldiers massacred civilians in door-to-door house raids, then dumped the victims’ Read more
Reuters Fri, February 23, 2024 at 8:55 AM EST·3 min read (Reuters) – An airstrike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region killed at least 15 civilians, including children and elderly people, when it hit a truck carrying them to a village this week, three residents said. The strike took place on Monday around 24 km (15 miles) Read more
By GIULIA PARAVICINI Filed Feb. 23, 2024, 11 a.m. GMT Warning: This story contains disturbing visual content. Asecretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found. Reuters interviewed more than 30 federal and local officials, judges, Read more
Fasika Tadesse Tue, February 13, 2024 (Bloomberg) — Government security forces killed at least 60 civilians in an attack in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region last month, a state-run human rights body said. The extrajudicial killings of 45 people took place Jan. 29 in the town of Merawi, after soldiers accused residents of supporting the rebel Read more
We, supporters of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP) living abroad, are reaching out to the international social justice supporters and promotor’s with a pressing concern that demands immediate attention and action from the international community. The Ethiopian political history has been marred by a dark reality when it comes to civil, political and human Read more
Ian Wafula – Security reporter, BBC News, Nairobi 17th January 2024, 09:34 EST Somalia has turned away a plane transporting officials from Ethiopia to the self-declared republic of Somaliland in a major escalation of the diplomatic row between the countries. Somalia’s information minister told the BBC the plane did not have permission to be in Read more
Kalkidan Yibeltal & Natasha Booty – BBC News, Addis Ababa and London. Tue, January 16, 2024 at 3:05 PM EST·2 min read Getty Images Crops are failing and residents say food aid has dwindled More than 200 people have starved to death since July in Edaga Arbi town, in Ethiopia’s drought-hit and war-scarred Tigray region, Read more
Who is Ousman Sonko? Ousman Sonko, a former Gambian minister under ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh, went on trial in Switzerland on January 8 for crimes against humanity in a long-awaited case. Sonko, 55, joined the Gambian military in 1988 and became commander of the State Guard in 2003, a position in which he was responsible Read more
January 03, 2024 4:38 PM Harun Maruf Ethiopia’s government is defending a maritime access deal signed with the self-declared republic of Somaliland, a day after Somalia declared the deal “null and void.” In a statement issued on Wednesday, landlocked Ethiopia said it has a “longstanding cooperation agreement” with Somaliland, and that “consultations on mutual benefits have been Read more
Somaliland, a former British protectorate of about 4.5 million people, has been seeking full statehood since claiming independence from Somalia in 1991. [Wikimedia] Euractiv is part of the Trust Project >>> Languages: Deutsch The European Union on Tuesday (2 January) insisted Somalia’s sovereignty should be respected after Ethiopia signed a controversial deal with breakaway Somaliland. The Read more
The Berbera port of Somaliland. Photographer: Mustafa Saeed/AFP/Getty Images Ethiopia Offers Airline Stake to Somaliland for Sea Access (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, to gain access to the Red Sea in exchange for a stake in its flagship carrier Ethiopian Airlines. Detailed negotiations to reach a Read more
Mohamud Abdiaziz Abdisamad & Kalkidan Yibeltal – BBC News, Mogadishu & Addis Ababa Tue, January 2, 2024 Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addressed MPs following Ethiopia’s agreement with Somaliland Somalia has described an agreement that landlocked Ethiopia made with the self-declared republic of Somaliland over sea access as an act of “aggression”. Somaliland seceded Read more
Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland, in Addis Ababa By Abdi Sheikh and Abdiqani Hassan MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalia on Tuesday rejected a pact its breakaway region of Somaliland signed with Ethiopia allowing it to use a major port with access to the Red Sea in return for recognition as an Read more
A rebellion in the Amhara region risks plunging Ethiopia into wider conflict. The federal government should seek talks with the militants as part of efforts to resolve the country’s interlocking crises. Outside powers should keep nudging Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to take this conciliatory tack. What’s new? Ethiopia’s federal government is battling yet another revolt. This Read more
