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Eritrea: Who Will Call Out Eritrea's War Crimes in Tigray?
African Arguments, 23 December 2020
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original… Read more »
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East Africa: Eritrea's Role in Ethiopia's Conflict and the Fate of Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia
African Arguments, 4 December 2020
In the following article, Mesfin Hagos (founding member of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the 1970s who served as Minister of Defense in the 1990s), the most… Read more »
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East Africa: What Next for Ethiopia and Its Neighbours - Somalia and Eritrea
The Conversation Africa, 7 December 2020
From a historical standpoint, the current conflict in Ethiopia fits within an established political pattern. There have been power struggles between the centre and the border… Read more »
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East Africa: Once Enemies, Ethiopia and Eritrea Ally Against Tigray
DW, 29 November 2020
Eritrea has been involved in the Tigray crisis in Ethiopia from day one, experts say. But even though the two countries are fighting together against a common enemy, that does not… Read more »
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East Africa: Eritrea's Role in Ethiopia's Conflict and the Fate of Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia
African Arguments, 4 December 2020
In the following article, Mesfin Hagos (founding member of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the 1970s who served as Minister of Defense in the 1990s), the most… Read more »
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Eritrea: The Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Deal Is Yet to Show Dividends
ISS, 11 September 2020
It's been over two years since the much-heralded rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia culminated in a peace and friendship agreement in July 2018. The deal, brewed personally… Read more »
Landmark Peace Deal, But Now Eritrea, Ethiopia Are Allies in War
Ethiopia is a key political and economic state in the Horn of Africa, which is also home to Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. One of those countries in the Horn is now - two years after a much-lauded friendship agreement which won Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed the Nobel Peace Prize - an ally in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's war with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). And then news of a military alliance between President Isaias Afwerki and Abiy emerged, sparking Eritrea's former defence minister Mesfin Hagos to write about how sure he is that neither leader is interested in a peaceful resolution until the TPLF is destroyed.
InFocus
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Prime Minister Abiy's struggle for full control of Ethiopia has come at a huge cost with considerable bloodshed - for which he blames the Tigray People's Liberation Front. He has ... Read more »
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Reforms currently sweeping through Ethiopia under the new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have implications for the relationship between Ethiopia and its neighbours. Ethiopia is seen as ... Read more »
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Human Rights Watch has released a video about Eritrean political prisoners including 21 senior government officials and journalists detained in 2001 after they criticized President ... Read more »
