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Ethiopia: Opposition Parties Call for Dialogue to End Tigray Conflict
Nation, 8 August 2021
As conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region spills to neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions, two opposition political parties have called for a comprehensive national dialogue… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Comply or Leave - the Dilemma Facing Humanitarian Agencies
The Conversation Africa, 9 August 2021
The Ethiopian government has suspended the activities of three foreign humanitarian organisations which had been working in the Tigray region. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation… Read more »
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Ethiopia: USAID Chief Wraps Up Visit With Calls to End Hostilities
Addis Standard, 5 August 2021
USAID administrator Samantha Power finalized a day-long trip to Ethiopia without an audience with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. She however used her short visit to reiterate her… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia Suspends Three Humanitarian Groups in Tigray
Nation, 4 August 2021
The Ethiopian government has suspended the activities of three foreign humanitarian organisations which have been working in the restive northern Tigray region. Read more »
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Ethiopia: MSF Seeks Dialogue with Federal Govt After Suspension of Operations
Addis Standard, 4 August 2021
In a statement published on Ethiopia Fact Check today, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia's Agency for Civil Society announced the temporary suspension of MSF Holland, the… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Three NGOs Suspended for Operating Outside of Mandate - Govt
ENA, 4 August 2021
The government of Ethiopia has suspended MSF Holland, Norwegian Refugee Council and Al Mektoum Foundation for breaching rules of the nation and operating outside of their mandate,… Read more »
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Ethiopia: U.S. Calls for End to Military Conflicts As Top Official Arrives in Ethiopia
Addis Standard, 4 August 2021
The US government has called for the restoration of the status quo ante and an end of the nine months military hostilities in order for aid to reach more than five million people… Read more »
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Ethiopia: What's Wrong With U.S. Policy for Ethiopia and Africa?
Ethiopian Herald, 4 August 2021
Knowledgeable American analysts of U.S.-African relations are disturbed by the U.S. government's treatment of Ethiopia. In the first six months of the Biden Presidency, we have… Read more »
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Ethiopia: USAID Head Pushes for Humanitarian Aid Access in Tigray
VOA, 4 August 2021
U.S. Agency for International Development head Samantha Power is set to meet Wednesday with officials in Ethiopia as the United States urges the government to allow clear access… Read more »
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Ethiopia: 'Pressure to Open a Corridor Through Western Tigray Unacceptable' - Risk Management Commissioner
Addis Standard, 3 August 2021
"The pressure to open a corridor through western Tigray is unacceptable," Mitiku Kassa, National Disaster Risk Management Commissioner told a local news outlet today. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Horror of 50 Bodies in River Fuels Push for Humanitarian Corridor
Nation, 3 August 2021
Washington's aid chief Samantha Power is expected in Addis Ababa on Tuesday to push for a special corridor for humanitarian assistance to civilians in the troubled Tigray region by… Read more »
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Ethiopia: 'Heartbreaking' Devastation in Tigray - UN Humanitarian Chief
UN News, 4 August 2021
The new UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ended a six-day mission to Ethiopia with a fresh push to get badly needed food and other supplies into the embattled Tigray region. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Tigray - Our Suffering May Not Be Convenient, but It Is Real
African Arguments, 3 August 2021
The state's one-sided narrative has not just shattered Ethiopians' shared understanding of reality but eroded the social fabric that held us together. Read more »
Ethiopian Govt Suspends Three Aid Organisations Working in Tigray
The Ethiopian government has suspended the activities of three foreign humanitarian organisations which have been working in northern Tigray. Ethiopia's Agency for Civil Society Organisations said on August 4, 2021 that it had identified rule violations by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Maktoume Foundation.
"MSF and the Norwegian Refugee Council have been disseminating misinformation on social media and other platforms outside of the mandate and purpose for which the organisations were permitted to operate," the agency said in a statement.
On the same day, Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) who is visiting Ethiopia, said in a Twitter thread that all parties "should accelerate unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict, and the commercial blockade of Tigray must end". Reuters reports that Power, speaking at a news conference in Addis Ababa, said she had raised concerns about "dehumanising rhetoric" with authorities. Power's visit to the country, and to neighbouring Sudan, follows warnings from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration of punitive measures against the Ethiopian government if aid is unable to reach the Tigray region.
Power's visit coincides with a visit by new United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, who ended a six-day mission to the country with a fresh push to get badly needed food and other supplies into Tigray, which has been in conflict with the Ethiopian government since November 2020.
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After more than nine months of civil strife in northern Ethiopia's Tigray province, the United Nations finds a society of staggering devastation, of ruined lives and livelihoods. ... Read more »
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An MSF translator asks people to line up to wait for medical consultations at a mobile clinic in Adiftaw (file photo).
