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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“Washington will be relying on the historical relationship and strategic partnership with Ethiopia to ensure peace negotiations come to fruition.” – SEHOA Hammer BY FRED OLUOCH | THE EAST AFRICAN The US government has indicated that it will not rush to use the sanction card against the warring factions in Ethiopia even though fresh fighting […]
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“TPLF undertook a preemptive operation to disarm and neutralize the Northern Command – a move we consider a legitimate act of self-defense.” – Getachew Reda BY SUDAN POST Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has admitted that it started the deadly conflict that has approximately killed around 500,000 people and displaced more than two […]
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How TPLF’s plan for victory like Israel’s Six-Days-War has turned to an embarrassing defeat that resembles Egypt’s Yom-Kippur war? BY MAHLET AYELE BEYECHA | VOICE4THOUGHT “We were literally caught with-our-pants-down … but we won because that is our mindset, … to win!”, said the late Dr Yehuda Paz, founder, and chair of the Negev Institute […]
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“There is no such thing as a cakewalk in war, but if there ever was one, the capture of Mekelle would be it.” BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN With their army destroyed and their last, best troops wiped out in one morning on the outskirts of their regional capital Mekele, the last remnants of the leadership […]
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BY CNN Ethiopian federal troops are closing in on Tigray’s capital of Mekelle, Redwan Hussein, the government spokesperson for the state of emergency task force, told CNN on Wednesday. As the fighting between Ethiopian and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) soldiers rages in the region for a second week, Redwan said that national defense forces […]
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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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BY STAFF WRITER | THE STAR The decision by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to send the army to the Tigrayan region to crack down on criminals within the minority Tigray People’s Liberation Front is good news for the Horn and East African region, which suffered enormously as a result of this faction’s massacres, war […]
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