Sudan Generals: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The two worked together, and carried out a coup together – now their battle for supremacy is tearing Sudan apart. The UN’s top aid official […]
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Stolen food from the Sheraro warehouse is said to be enough to feed 100,000 people. The United Nations food relief agency has suspended food aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. The World Food Program is responsible […]
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“The Ethiopian people and government will need this negotiation very much.” – PM Abiy Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that his government will commence talks with Oneg-Shene, an outlawed splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The talks are scheduled to take place on Tuesday in Tanzania. The split of the Oromia rebel […]
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Could this lead to war between Amhara and the federal government? The Ethiopian government has stated that it intends to disband regional forces established by various regional states, with the aim of integrating them into the federal army, police, or civilian life, a government spokeswoman said, in a move expected to arouse opposition. “Special forces […]
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“The central purpose of the current visit is to further consolidate the close ties of military cooperation that exist between the two countries.” – Yemane G.Meskel On the invitation of the Ethiopian Defense Forces, a delegation of senior Eritrean army generals and senior officials led by Brigadier General Abraha Kassa, Head of the National Security […]
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“The Ministry of Justice has found it necessary to withdraw the charges against the civil and military leaders of the TPLF rebel group and have their case dealt with in the framework of the Transitional Justice.” – MoJ The Ethiopian government on Thursday announced it is scrapping criminal charges against leaders of the rebel Tigray […]
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By calling the desputed territory as “Western Tigray,” and saying that ethnic Amhara forces were guilty of ethnic cleansing there, Blinken took the side of the TPLF, triggering fears of return to war. At the end of this week, at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Ethiopian government suddenly withdrew […]
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The delisting is a prerequisite to the TPLF’s participation in an interim regional government after the end of Ethiopia’s civil war. Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the dominant party in the Tigray region from a list of “terrorist organizations”, a significant step towards establishing an interim regional government following the end of a two-year civil […]
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