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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
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
