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Africa World

Ethiopia is not Yugoslavia

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

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Africa World

Tibor Nagy: will next global hotspot be the Horn of Africa?

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

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Africa News World

Are Colorado’s Ethiopian’s stampeding from the Democratic Party? What’s the deal?

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

Matt Bryden: The British ‘warlord’
Africa World

Matt Bryden: The British ‘warlord’ destabilizing Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea with his Nairobi-based disinformation factory Sahan

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

This is an old Ethiopian map from 1963 that is an administrative and political guide, but also includes cities, railroads and roads
Africa World

What’s Wrong With U.S. Policy For Ethiopia and Africa?

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

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Africa News World

Canada must respond to use of child soldiers in Tigray: Ann Fitz-Gerald and Hugh Segal

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

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Africa Opinion World

International Media Worsens Situation in Tigray by Advancing Armed Groups’ Agenda

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

This is an old Ethiopian map from 1963 that is an administrative and political guide, but also includes cities, railroads and roads
Africa World

“Ethiopia Shall Rise” by Kwame Nkrumah

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

Dr.Adhanom
Africa Health World

WHO Chief Must Leave After Scathing Audit, Says AHF

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

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Africa News World

CNN Misinformation News on Ethiopia which is neither verified nor evidenced.

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

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Africa News World

Ethiopia: Mai Kadra, Metekel, and the Media Shame That Won’t Be Forgotten

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

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Africa News World

What Ethiopia needs is less, not more, ethno-nationalism

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

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Africa Analysis World

The Rise and Fall of Ethnic-Based Federalism and its Predicament for Humanity in Ethiopia  

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

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Africa News World

Mapmakers once referred to the southern Atlantic Ocean as the Ethiopian Ocean

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

LAWRENCE FREEMAN
Africa Analysis News World

U.S. Senators’ Call for Postponing Ethiopian Election is Foolish and Very Dangerous

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

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Africa News World

Harvard’s School of Public Health, cancel Tedros Adhanom’s award

  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

Dr.Natalia
Africa News World

Refugees in Tigray dressed up to stage “Eritreans cutting breasts”

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

Africa Analysis World

False Narratives of Ethiopian Conflict Are Toxic

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

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Africa Entertainment News World

The Weeknd Donates $1 Million to Relief Efforts in Ethiopia

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

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Africa Analysis News World

Open Letter to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Dr Tedros is not a man of health but a politician tutored by China

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

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Africa Analysis Articles Europe World

Ethiopia – Following in the path of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria? Susan Rice’s New War: Washington weaponizing human rights again – Target Ethiopia.

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

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Africa Analysis World

Kenya-Somalia dispute threatens an embattled Horn of Africa

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

Africa News World

Lest we make the same mistake; The international community’s response to current situation in Ethiopia

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

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Africa World

The Fifth Pillar of the Biden Administration’s Policy in Ethiopia: Puppetmaster a (War)game of Thrones and Delegitimize the 2021 Election (Part I of II)

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

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Africa News World

African Union says Ethiopia acted legitimately in Tigray

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

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Africa Press Release World

Press Release on Continued Disinformation Campaign against Ethiopia

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

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Africa Opinion World

Celebrate Ethiopia’s March 1, 1896 Victory at Adwa: Ethiopia is Fighting Another Battle Today to Protect its Sovereignty

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

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Africa News Science World

Gebremedhin receives prestigious international applied mathematics prize

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