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Ethiopia: U.S. - Ethiopia, Tigray Actors Can Avoid Sanctions By Ending Conflict
VOA, 21 September 2021
The U.S. government is urging the Ethiopian government, rebel group Tigray People's Liberation Front, and other warring factions to end the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Time to Agree to a Negotiated Ceasefire and to Turn Away From Military Escalation - U.S.
Addis Standard, 21 September 2021
The following is excerpts from telephonic press briefing with Bryan Hunt, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Africa and the Sudans, and Erik Woodhouse, Deputy Assistant… Read more »
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Ethiopia: U.S. Sanctions Threat Tries to Change Equation - But Effect Likely to be Limited
CFR, 20 September 2021
The impact of the Biden administration's threat to impose sanctions on certain individuals involved in the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia is likely to be limited. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia Conflict - Joe Biden Signs Order Authorising Sanctions
Nation, 17 September 2021
US President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order that authorises a wide range of sanctions on those responsible for the Ethiopia conflict, if they refuse to choose… Read more »
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Addis Standard, 17 September 2021
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.… Read more »
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Ethiopia: U.S. Issues New Executive Order Establishing Sanctions Related to Crisis in Ethiopia
State Department, 17 September 2021
In the midst of ongoing violence, abuses against civilians, and growing humanitarian plight in Ethiopia, President Biden today signed an Executive Order (E.O.) establishing a new… Read more »
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Ethiopia: U.S. Authorizes Sanctions in Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict
HRW, 17 September 2021
UN Security Council, Regional Bodies, Other Countries Should Also Target Rights Abusers Read more »
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Ethiopia: Civic Council Strongly Objects to Biden's Executive Order
ENA, 19 September 2021
The Ethiopian American Civic Council (EACC) has expressed its strong objection to President Joe Biden's executive order authorizing sanctions against officials in Ethiopia for… Read more »
U.S. Authorises Sanctions Amid Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that allows the U.S. government to impose sanctions against those responsible for a range of serious human rights abuses in northern Ethiopia.
The order establishes a sanctions regime that allows the U.S. to deny visas and freeze the assets of individuals and entities responsible for, or complicit in serious abuses and obstructing access to humanitarian aid.
Since the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region began in November 2020, Human Rights Watch and others have documented massacres, widespread sexual violence, forced displacement, and deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure by the Ethiopian army and their allies that includes Eritrea. Tigrayan militia forces have also allegedly killed and raped Eritrean refugees.
The order said that while maintaining pressure on those persons responsible for the crisis, "the United States will seek to ensure that appropriate personal remittances to non-blocked persons and humanitarian assistance to at-risk populations can flow to Ethiopia - through legitimate and transparent channels, including governments, international organisations, and non-profit organisations."
InFocus
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The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front has said that it is willing to cooperate with the U.S. on reaching a resolution to the ongoing conflict. This comes after U.S. President, ... Read more »
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East African regional body, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), has asked South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, to mediate the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia, th Read more »
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The Tigray conflict has raged since November 2020, when long-standing tensions between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front came to a head, with Prime ... Read more »
