(Source: Addisstandard, By Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne) – Addis Abeba, January 17, 2021- Six of the jailed members of the Karrayyu Gadaa leadership who were initially said to have gone missing after the unlawful deaths of 14 members of the Karrayyu Gadaa Michilee leaders were released on December 31, 2021 reports said. A survivor of …
(Source: Oryx, By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans) – ”Don’t bother to devote your energy to achieving impossible dreams. Just establish a bridge between us and them [western defence manufacturers], act as our translators, that’s enough.” (Address to Selçuk and Haluk Bayraktar by a bureaucrat at the Presidency of Defense Industries, mid-2000s) [1] …
Swarm-UAVs are coming – And Turkey just called Dibs Read More »
(Source: Oryx, By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans) – The discovery of Iranian Ghaem-5 precision-guided munition (PGM) remains near the town of Gidami in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia in early January 2022 was a first indication that the Ethiopian Air Force had forward deployed its Iranian-made Mohajer-6 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) …
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(Source: The Economist, Nairobi) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s actions belie his words Jan 15th 2022 The mood at the international airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, is strikingly upbeat. In recent weeks arriving passengers have been met by smiling dancers and patriotic music. Garlands of flowers and bright yellow carpets adorn the arrivals …
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(Source: UN News) – 14 January 2022 Humanitarian Aid Aid and food distribution operations in northern Ethiopia are about “to grind to a halt” amid ongoing fighting, bloodshed and a lack of funding that is making humanitarian access impossible, the UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Friday. Escalating clashes in Tigray have …
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(Source: Quillette.com, By James Jeffrey) – Drones Over Ethiopia Less than two months ago, the Ethiopian government was on the brink of defeat as Tigrayan forces closed in on the capital. Now the Tigrayan troops have turned about and withdrawn north back into Tigray. The government’s use of foreign-supplied unarmed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and armed …
(Source: Tghat, By Mulugeta Gebregziabher, this article was first published on Tghat.com) – November 4, 2021, marked the 365th day of the war on Tigray that was waged by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his allies, the Eritrean government, Amhara forces, and other foreign actors. Since the war started, I have been reflecting and sharing …
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(By Yared Huluf, Warning Graphic Picture & Video at the end of this poem) – No choice you are natal chart delivered, Worse, there are those who did not get the chance that you were blessed. From the get go to your grave rest, You found out life is a challenge; Some you succeeded, …
(Source: GNN) – January 15, 2022 By Goitom A.(Dr.) Eskinder Nega, founder and Chairman of Balderas for the Genuine Democracy Party (Balderas) said “The federal government should go as far as it can to exterminate TPLF”, in a press briefing his party held on Thursday, January 13, 2022. “The TPLF still has the military capacity …
(Source: Science Norway, By Ida Irene Bergstrøm) – In competition with among others Jair Bolsonaro and Boris Johnson, Abiy Ahmed has been named the worst head of state in 2021 by a panel of professors and researchers, on behalf of the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet. 2021 hasn’t just been affected by a pandemic, but also bad …
(Source: Human Rights Watch) – Eritrea Events of 2021 Eritrean government forces committed war crimes, possible crimes against humanity, and other serious violations against Tigrayan civilians during the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Eritrean forces also forcibly disappeared dozens of Eritrean refugees living there, raped several, coercively repatriated hundreds, and destroyed two Eritrean refugee camps. Eritrean forces also committed widespread pillaging with much of the plunder taken back to …
(Source: Refugees International, By Sarah Miller) – A Changing Battlefield, the Same Humanitarian Landscape Since November 2020, the world has watched Ethiopia turn on itself, starving its own people and destroying itself one day at a time. The fighting goes on, and a recent airstrike on a camp for internally displaced persons in Tigray killed …
(Source: France24) – Ethiopian government soldiers on a road near Agula in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 8, 2021. © Ben Curtis, AP/File At least 108 civilians have been killed this month in a series of airstrikes in the war-torn northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, the United Nations said Friday. The UN also …
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(Source: AP, BY JAN M. OLSEN) – COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, on Thursday issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, over the war and humanitarian crisis in his country’s Tigray region. “As prime minister and winner of …
(By Mekete Tigray UK, 30 November 2020) With full support of Isaias Afeworki, Prime Minster Abiy is reigniting ethnic civil war between Amharas and Tigrayans. Abiy Ahmed’s government has closed all roads to the entire Tigray state, so aid agencies cannot reach those who are needy of food Aid. All communications are shut down, banks …
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