Category: Ethiopia
ETHIOPIA: TPLF Agents Arrested for Printing Fake Money
Addis Ababa, March 13, 2021 – The TPLF clique and its agents are trying to harm the people and damage the economy by injecting fake money in the economy, according to Operations Department Head of the Northern Command. Through a coordinated operation of the federal police and intelligence agency early this week, individuals printing fake…
Ethiopia: Tigray – Why Are Soldiers Attacking Religious Heritage Sites?
ANALYSIS By Mariz Tadros. There are reports of Ethiopian and Eritrea troops going out of their way to loot and destroy beloved churches, mosques and monasteries. In Ethiopia, it is customary for large crowds to gather on the last week of November at the country’s holiest site, the Church of St Mary of Zion in Axum.…
Diaspora Protesters in US, Canada Back Ethiopian Government
WASHINGTON By Habtamu Seyoum, Alula Kebede, Solomon Abate – Thousands of protesters mobilized by Ethiopian and Eritrean diaspora groups marched in Washington and several Canadian cities this week, condemning suggestions by U.S. officials that the Ethiopian government carried out atrocities in the Tigray region. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to the…
“AMERICA FIRST” AND IMPLICATIONS FOR US STRATEGY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
“America First” and Implications for US Strategy in the Horn of Africa By Richard McManamon Abstract Since taking office, President Trump has challenged the global order with his “America First” approach. He has questioned the role of the US and its Allies within NATO, exited the Paris Climate Accord, and entered into a trade battle…
Ethiopia: Allegations of “ethnic cleansing”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government is indeed fully cognizant of its obligations under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, to which Ethiopia is a party. That is why it undertook the law enforcement operations in the Tigray region with utmost precaution to avoid as much as possible collateral damage on…
Does Ethiopia Really Threaten U.S. interests in the Horn of Africa
WASHINGTON, March 12 – The State Department on Friday said Washington has decided not to lift the pause in assistance to Ethiopia for most programs in the security sector, days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described acts in Tigray as ethnic cleansing. State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Friday that while the…
Ethiopia: Where Two World Wars Began & Where the Third Is Brewing
By: ELIAS WONDIMU The account of world history we know today was created with a European world viewpoint at its core. This eurocentric narrative of world events is colonial by its nature, white supremacist by its objective, aggressive by its methods, and expansionist by design. A major part of its agenda is to create the illusion…
Ethiopia: The many crimes of the TPLF Western Countries Ignore
BY: Degeufe Hailu. For the past 26 years, Ethiopia has been ruled by an authoritarian government. The party in government is the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) — a very criminal group. The TPLF represents the interests of just one of the tribes in Ethiopia, the Tigrayan people. The control the TPLF has over Ethiopia…
Ethiopian authorities cannot investigate their own crimes in Tigray
OPINION by Mistir Sew. The ongoing gross violations of international laws in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, perpetrated by Eritrean and Ethiopian forces, have shocked the international community. Powerful states such as the US and international actors like top UN officials have denounced the crimes. The massacres, rapes, forced displacements, and coordinated expropriation and destruction of private and…
ETHIOPIA: MORE THAN 40 CIVILIANS KILLED IN WESTERN OROMIA
Addis Ababa, March 12.2021 – A series of attacks in western Oromia regional state mounted by armed men against civilians since Saturday March 6 claimed the lives of at least 42 people so far, including women and children. The victims are members of the Amhara community living in various Kebeles (districts) of Horo Guduru, Eastern Wollaga zone of Oromia…
