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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
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
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
By Ellise Shafer Sun, April 4, 2021, 1:10 PM The Weeknd is donating $1 million to relief efforts in Ethiopia amid the ongoing conflict between the government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray region. The conflict has resulted in the deaths of thousands and the displacement of more than two million people, according to NPR. Last month, Read more
In the world of truth. There are no colors or shades. There is only the truth. The truth is that Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had been derelict in his duty as the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic which the world is still reeling under. The Coronavirus Read more
By Savio Rodrigues It has come to my attention that you are to be one of the speakers on World Health Day at ‘Changing Paradigms in a Pandemic World: How to regain trust? Health, Happiness & Ethics’ organized by the World Forum for Ethics in Business – an organization founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. I have voiced my displeasure Read more
Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – hope for the country and the Horn of Africa to provide electricity to fuel development. By Rob Prince For some time now, since the Addis campaign to neutralize the Tigre military opposition, the U.S.has been weaponizing the human rights issues in Ethiopia in a manner that is both cynical Read more
Joint IGAD–AU action is urgently needed to avoid further destabilisation of a region already wracked by violence. 16 MAR 2021 / BY SELAM TADESSE DEMISSIE Relations between Kenya and Somalia have been strained for some time over economic and maritime boundary issues. But new alliances in the region are now making the situation worse. The latest dispute is Read more
Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SOCEPP-Canada) የኢትዮጵያ ፖለቲካ እሥረኞች አንድነት ኮሚቴ (ኢፖእአኮ-ካናዳ) Email: socepp.can@humanrightsethiopia.com and socepp.can@sympatico.ca Web: www.humanrightsethiopia.com Lest we make the same mistake; The international community’s response to current situation in Ethiopia March 9, 2021 On October 10, 1990, Nayrah; the fifteen (15) year old Kuwaiti girl provides the US Congressional Human Rights Read more
Author’s Special Note: I refer to my previous commentaries (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part IV) on my extremely pessimistic prognostications on U.S. policy in Ethiopia under the Biden Administration. The fifth pillar of what I believe will be the Biden Administration’s policy in Ethiopia will be presented in two parts. In the first part below, Read more
Addis Ababa March 4/2021 (ENA) – I want to tell you about Tito Minniti. An Italian pilot during the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia. The short version of the story goes like this: In late December of 1935, somewhere around the Harar region, Minniti’s plane went down in the desert. Some Ethiopians found and dragged him Read more
The chairman of the African Union Commission said that Ethiopia took “legitimate” military action in its Tigray province to preserve the country’s unity and stability By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press December 21, 2020, 7:04 AM JOHANNESBURG — Ethiopia took “legitimate” military action in its Tigray province to preserve the country’s unity and stability, the chairman of Read more
March 2, 2021 Vision Ethiopia, a non-partisan association of Ethiopian scholars and professionals, expresses its unequivocal disapprobation of the recent disinformation campaign waged against the interest of the people of Ethiopia by the Western media, certain humanitarian organizations, and some branches of the US government and the European Union. While we fully appreciate the engagement Read more
On Sunday, February 28, 2021, I sent an op-ed submission to the editor of the New York Times in response to the article Ethiopia’s War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report Says, along with the following note urging the Times to acknowledge my submission: I should like to start by stating that Read more
February 28, 2021 This article below was first published in the March 2017. If you read the headlines of the European press following Italy’s defeat on March1, 1896, you will see that this battle shook the foundations of European Imperialism to its core. Today, Ethiopia is engaged in another battle for its sovereignty, no less Read more
February 23, 2021 Assefaw Gebremedhin, associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is recipient of the 2021 George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics. Administered by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the international prize is awarded every four years for a notable application in an area of mathematics called combinatorial theory. The field Read more
If you’re an ally of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian people, you might feel pretty frustrated about now. I don’t know about you, but I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re wasting time on the wrong battles. The TPLF has managed to play the Western media like a fiddle. It began the conflict, boasting through its Read more
As a Palestinian bid for full state membership of the United Nations appears to be foundering, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti reflects on the very practical benefits that statehood would have brought. For years, the Facebook team has been reminding me that I have to edit my profile and add the country I come from. Read more
The exaggerated claims by certain quarters that we see these days on social media regarding the situation in the Tigray region is designed to influence international public opinion. It is unfortunate that the mainstream media is swept away by this misinformation campaign and popular hashtag PR Wars. One can easily visit the web site, which Read more
Protests spread in Sudan over cost of living Tue, February 9, 2021, 7:53 AM Protests flared Tuesday in several parts of Sudan over the high cost of living as the United States voiced support for the new government’s efforts to revive the economy. The new cabinet includes rebel leaders and has been tasked with fixing Read more
Lawrence Freeman February 4, 2021 In January 2021, the world witnessed a barrage of attacks on Ethiopia aimed at undermining the efforts of Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed to preserve the sovereignty of the Ethiopian nation. This is a dangerous gambit not only for the potential harm it can trigger for the people of Ethiopia, Read more
