BY LAWRENCE FREEMAN 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, but also […]
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BY MOHAMMED IBRAHIM SHIRE | TRT WORLD The Tigray People’s Liberation Front has executed a series of coercive steps to provoke a conflict at the local, national and regional level to force international powers to intervene. On November 4, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) launched coordinated attacks on the federal military’s powerful Northern Command […]
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“Calling for dialogue between the federal government and TPLF creates a precedent for other groupings within the Ethiopian federation to learn the wrong lesson: that violence pays off.” BY HAILEMARIAM DESALEGN | FOREIGN POLICY Most Ethiopia analysts or so-called experts on the Horn of Africa are busy these days preaching the need for an all-inclusive […]
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According to the Amhara regional media agency, the number of victims is close to 500. BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Amnesty International can today confirm that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the South West Zone of Ethiopia’s Tigray Region on the night of 9 […]
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