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Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango on drone strikes, other violence in Ethiopia’s Amhara region 17 November 2023 UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango Continued human rights violations and abuses, including arbitrary arrests, in Ethiopia’s north-western Amhara region and other parts of the country are deeply concerning. They undermine any ongoing Read more
Default concerns are rising on no progress with IMF or G20 Ethiopia has $33 million eurobond coupon due in December Colleen Goko, Timothy Rangongo and Simon Marks Fri, October 6, 2023 at 4:10 AM EDT·4 min read (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s sole eurobond is close to erasing gains made since a peace process started to end Read more
23 September 2023 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is issuing an Active Genocide Alert for Ethiopia’s Amhara people after the September 3rd massacre of Amhara civilians in Majete and the surrounding areas of the Amhara region in Ethiopia. On September 3, 2023, the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), under the direction of Ethiopian Prime Read more
Heading Photo Top: By Kevin Morris photo Ethiopian clocks 2hr 11 min 53sec in Berlin, fastest by 2min 11sec Assefa’s Adidas trainers ‘enhanced by unique technology’ Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa celebrates after smashing the women’s marathon world record by more than two minutes. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images On the stillest of Berlin mornings, a tsunami of a Read more
18 September 2023 GENEVA (18 September 2023) – Nearly one year since the signing of an agreement to cease hostilities in Ethiopia, atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity are still being committed in the country and peace remains elusive, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia warned in its latest report released today. In its 21-page report, the Commission Read more
Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay became the second woman to break the 5000m world record this year and nearly became the first woman to break 14 minutes in the event. Tsegay, a world champion at 5000m (2022) and 10,000m (2023), clocked 14 minutes, 00.21 seconds at the Pre Classic in Eugene, Oregon. She took nearly five seconds Read more
A woman sits at a school being used to house people displaced by fighting, in the city of Mekelle in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on June 27, 2021. © 2021 Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times/Redux To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council Excellencies, Ahead of the Human Rights Read more
Heading image is Farmers in Amhara region of Ethiopia. Getty Images Published: September 6, 2023 by AntiNonSense The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked slipping into another civil war. It is only Read more
Exclusive: Witnesses say federal forces have been looting villages and shooting farmers in their hunt for defiant Fano militiamen Ethiopian soldiers killed more than 70 civilians and looted properties in a town in Amhara, multiple witnesses have claimed. The killings took place in Majete, a rural town in north-eastern Ethiopia, after two weeks of heavy Read more
By Abdel Latif Wahba Mon, August 28, 2023 (Bloomberg) — Egypt said the latest talks on Ethiopia’s giant Nile dam ended without a breakthrough, but vowed to press ahead with efforts to reach a binding agreement for filling and operating that it deems essential to safeguarding vital water flows. Two days of discussions between Egyptian, Read more
When I read this article, I felt as if all dictators get their guide from the same book. Please read and put your opinion Brahmjot Kaur Fri, August 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT·4 min read 356 Courtesy Tanzilur Rahman A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after Read more
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Amane Beriso Shankule led a 1-2 finish by Ethiopia in the women’s marathon on a warm Saturday morning at the world championships. Shankule powered through the city streets of Budapest to finish in a time of 2 hours, 24 minutes, 23 seconds to edge defending champion and teammate Gotytom Gebreslase. Fatima Read more
AFRICA, HORN OF AFRICA Date: 08/08/2023Author: Martin Plaut0 Comments By: Eyob Tilahun Abera Abiy’s regime is committing war crimes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia and violating international rules and conventions for civil aviation Even if attacks started earlier, since 7 August 2023, Abiy’s regime in Ethiopia has been attacking civilians using drones and rockets, particularly in the densely populated city of Debre Read more
June 29, 2023 To: UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), UNHRC Member States, and Delegation of the EU to the UN and Other International Organizations in Geneva Subject: Urgent Action to Protect the Amhara People of Ethiopia Against Ethnic Violence and Genocide We, the undersigned organizations of Ethiopians in the Diaspora, write this letter of appeal to Read more
Header image credit: face2faceafrica.com Isaiah Reynolds May 5, 2023, 1:29 PM EDT Prince Alemayehu Jabez Hughes/Victoria and Albert Museum Following the Battle of Magdala, orphaned Prince Alemayehu was taken by British soldiers to Britian. Taken under the wing of British nobility, Alemayehu was entirely severed from his life in Ethiopia. He is buried at Windsor Read more
Girma Berhanu Feb 12 #6956 Google text translation of a German article from a local German newspaper “Die Tagespost” Würzburg, 9. Februar 2023 *Cruel test for Ethiopia* 𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐳𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠, 𝟗. 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 IN FOCUS Cruel test for Ethiopia BY STEPHAN BAIER Ethiopia’s government is playing with the fire of nationalism and in doing so Read more
On February 7, 2023, 4:42 PM More than 30 followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have been killed over the last several days by security forces in the Oromia region amidst tension sparked by a breakaway faction, the privately owned Borkena news site reports. The circumstances of the trouble are unclear, but local news site Read more
A peace building organization, Foundation for Peace Professionals also known as PeacePro has cautioned the European Union against unhelpful commentary on the ongoing peace process in Ethiopia. PeacePro also advised that, if the EU has any advice for Ethiopia, it should communicate with the government through respectable channel or the African Union which facilitated the Read more
October 29, 2022 Lawrence Abiy Ahmed, Africa, citizenship, Ethiopia, ethnicity, genocide, geopolitics, Horn of Africa, Mekelle, nation-state, oligarchy, Peace talks, Tigray, TPLF, US Lawrence Freeman interviewed by Hermela Aregawi, well known journalist and host of Eyes on Africa-eoanews.com , on October 27, 2022 In my most recent statement (see below) published by ENA on Oct 29, I discuss the intention of U.S. Envoy, Mike Hammer as a participant, not an observer, in Read more
Mary Kulundu, AFP Kenya Fri, October 21, 2022 at 8:50 AM Images showing smoke billowing from a building have been shared in Facebook posts claiming the scenes depict Ethiopia’s invasion of Shire, Tigray’s largest city. This is false; while Tigrayan rebels said Ethiopian and Eritrean forces had captured Shire, the photos circulating online were taken Read more
Leaked reports marked Confidential from the UN’s Department of Safety and Security offer a picture of the TPLF’s lawless and despotic rule in Tigray over the spring and summer. For instance, according to the UN’s own documents, the TPLF rounded up several Tigrayans on April 17 ‘who [were] not willing to send their children to join TF Read more
Ethiopia first began electricity production at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in February Amanuel SILESHI By Aymeric VINCENOT August 11, 2022 Ethiopia kickstarted electricity production from the second turbine at its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Thursday, despite continuing objections by Egypt and Sudan over the project. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also confirmed Read more
– State details more than 4,000 people in two-month crackdown – Al-Qaeda-linked group attacked towns near Somalia border By Samuel Gebre August 8, 2022 Ethiopia has arrested thousands of people suspected of being members of militias or terrorist organizations as it seeks to end instability. In an almost two-month crackdown in various regions including the Read more
July 12, 2022 Addis Ababa, June 26, 2022(Walta) – The ethnic national militias manipulated by dark forces from outside and inside the country want to make sure that Ethiopia is permanently destabilized, an American political-economic analyst told ENA. Lawrence Freeman strongly argues that the recent massacre against civilians in the Oromia region is a result of Read more
Letesenbet Gidey Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey won the gold medal in the women’s 10,000 metres race at the World Athletics Championship in Oregon, USA. It was a very competitive race and Letesenbet managed to cross the finishing line first in 30:09.94 minutes. After winning the race, she was seen kneeling and making the sign of the Read more
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund on Thursday called on creditor committees for Chad, Ethiopia and Zambia to quickly reach agreements with authorities to restructure the countries’ debts, saying this could unlock IMF financing programs and disbursements for them. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told a news briefing that the Fund has made Read more
COMMENTARY by Ann Fitz-Gerald and Hugh Segal While most eyes stay understandably focused on Russian aggression in Ukraine, another war goes on that Canadians, Americans and Europeans barely know about, in Ethiopia. And what they’re told by much of the mainstream media fails to reflect reality on the ground. The New York Times, the Guardian and CNN have often Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
