Tag: ethiopia
Ethiopia: Amhara Genocide and Ethnic cleansing
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. Attestations of the Amhara Genocide and Ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia The 20th and the 21st centuries have been marked by extreme violence and genocides globally. While the causes can be attributed to multiple factors, several subpopulations have been victims of these atrocious activities. The term genocide…
Ethiopia: How a musician’s killing exposed the media
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. The night the popular Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa was murdered, a dreadful sense of loss and fear seized me. I felt my hands and feet shivering as I struggled to post a message of condolence on Facebook. That night, I could not sleep. Looking at how…
Ethiopia: Citizen Diplomacy for GERD, Nile Water Negotiations
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. Ethiopia needs to effectively make use of citizen diplomacy to make its side of the story heard and harness the benefits in the negotiation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and Nile waters talk. Endale Nigusse, Diplomacy and International Relations Lecturer at Civil Service University…
Toward an End to Ethiopia’s Federal-Tigray Feud
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues.A disputed regional election plan has ratcheted up tensions between Ethiopia’s federal government and its rivals in Tigray. To avert a confrontation, Tigrayan officials should press pause on election preparations and both sides should embrace dialogue to address the dispute and underlying causes. What’s new? Prime Minister Abiy…
Wither Ethiopia’s transition?
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in April 2018, his arrival was greeted with a collective sigh of relief both in Ethiopia and abroad. The new leader was seen as a reformer who would change the course of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). In…
Ethiopia: U.S- Ethiopia Relations Take A Wrong Turn
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. The Trump administration’s decision to suspend and delay development assistance to Ethiopia over the filling of the new Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) is misguided and shortsighted. The move will undermine Washington’s relations and influence in one of Africa’s most significant states. The decision taken in late August was…
Ethiopia: Opposition figure faces terror charges
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues.Prosecutors in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have filed terror charges against prominent opposition figure and journalist Eskinder Nega, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reports. Mr Eskinder was among the thousands arrested following the violence that caused the death of at least 170 people after popular musician Hachalu Hundessa…
Ethiopia: Tigray State Defies
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 8. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Mehret Okubay. Banners flying high, speakers blaring campaign slogans and cafes abuzz with conversations about politics, Meqelle is in election fever as the Tigray Regional State prepares to hold a vote for its State Council. Banners flying high, speakers blaring campaign slogans and cafes abuzz…
Ethiopia: S.Sudan & Ethiopia Need to Deepen Bilateral Ties
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 8. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir said it is time for South Sudan and Ethiopia to deepen their bilateral relations by focusing on infrastructure projects. The President made the remark on Monday while conferring with Ethiopian Former President, Dr. Mulatu Teshome in Juba. The discussion between…
Ethiopia: Tigray polls set to escalate standoff
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 8. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. In a career that took him from Mogadishu to Washington and beyond, veteran diplomat Wondimu Asamnew spent 24 years pleading Ethiopia’s case to the world. These days, though, he is pushing a different narrative: that the federal government he once served is now like “a drunken…
