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East Africa: Tigray War Spawns 'Devoted' Militia and a Threat to Peace in the Horn
Nation, 6 December 2020
A month after Ethiopia launched a military operation against Tigray, a new face of war is emerging in the Horn of Africa. In the trenches of Tigray a new fighter is born, armed… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Accounts of Ethiopia's Invisible Government
Reporter, 5 December 2020
Ethiopia's constantly changing political landscape has puzzled many citizens as much as spectators. However, it was not just citizens but the incumbents as well who misread the… Read more »
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Ethiopia: The Conflict in Tigray - a Tale of 'Miscalculations'
Reporter, 5 December 2020
Ann Fitz-Gerald is the Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs. The Canadian native has worked in many nations, including in Ethiopia, on issues of national… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Revolution - From Creeping to Real
Reporter, 5 December 2020
It is essential to situate events that led to the creeping revolution when the ruling Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was compelled to give up power at the national level.… Read more »
Tigray War a Threat to Peace in Horn of Africa
Ethiopia's second civil war, which started on November 4, reflects the new drift towards militarism and authoritarianism in the Horn, argues Peter Kagwanja from Daily Nation.
The government closed all legitimate avenues for a negotiated a solution when it accused Tigray's leaders of treason and issuing an arrest warrant against TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael - and prominent Tigrayans are being targeted, like WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused of lobbying in favour of the dissident region, Kagwanja writes.
In Somalia, he explains, the Tigray war is now complicating the fight against Al-Shabaab...
Insecurity in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is driving people into Hamdayet in Sudan.
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The United Nations has reached agreement with Ethiopian authorities to gain humanitarian access to refugees in need urgent assistance in areas of the embattled Tigray region that ... Read more »
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U.S. Secretary Pompeo says he has taken note of the government's November 28 announcement of the end of major military operations, but he has reiterated the United States' grave ... Read more »
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has denied that civilians were killed by the country's armed forces during an operation in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray - saying the "junta" ... Read more »
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African Unions envoys meeting Friday with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali ended with no apparent progess towards averting an attack on Mekelle, capital of the northern Tigray region. ... Read more »
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The Ethiopian government has reportedly rejected a mediation offer from the African Union, with officials in Addis Ababa falling short of calling the office of the continental ... Read more »
