Source: Sudan Tribune The head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, disclosed Saturday that he had agreed with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to deploy the Sudanese troops to secure the borders between countries. On the first of November 2020, days before the attack of the Ethiopian federal army on the TPLF […]
Source: Brookings | Chris Heitzig In recent weeks, tensions between Ethiopia and Sudan over the disputed Al-Fashqa region have flared up, including an attack on Tuesday that left 80 civilians dead, according to Sudan’s Foreign Ministry. The latest violence comes in the wake of fatal attacks in the region last month that killed more than 220 people. […]
Source: BBC The shooting dead of Kitilaa Guddata has left his family in shock. The 32-year-old high school teacher was among the latest casualties in the conflict between government forces and rebels in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. The violence centres around demands by an insurgent group for the “liberation” of Oromia – a vast swathe of […]
Statement: EU | Josep Borrell, EU foreign affairs chief “For more than two months, conflict has been raging in the Ethiopian Tigray region. The authorities must allow humanitarian access as first step towards peace.” For more than two months, conflict has been raging in the Tigray region in Ethiopia. The situation is desperate for the […]
Source: World Politics Review | Peter Kirechu In November, as the Ethiopian government escalated its military campaign against the northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed quietly ordered a drawdown of Ethiopian peacekeepers from neighboring Somalia. The scale of the move is still unconfirmed, but as many as 3,000 Ethiopian troops were reportedly redeployed to fight against […]
Source: Church Times | Rebecca Paveley Reports of a massacre of 750 people in the cathedral complex that reputedly houses the Ark of the Covenant have emerged from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Accounts have come from those who fled the town of Aksum and walked more than 200km to the regional capital, Mekelle. The […]
Source: Bloomberg | Samuel Gebre, Agnieszka de Sousa and Simon Marks Nation scrapped import tenders for grain after no progress Ethiopia is seeking outside assistance to help feed its people Back in November, Ethiopia unveiled two deals to buy deeply discounted wheat from suppliers that seasoned traders had never heard of. A website named for one […]
Sudan sends delegation to neighboring countries to talk over the country’s border dispute with Ethiopia. Sudan’s Transitional Council and the Joint Council of Ministers have decided to visit neighboring countries regarding the country’s border dispute with Ethiopia, Al Ain News reported. Authorities are reportedly in Cairo, Asmara, Juba and Saudi Arabia to explain the situation. […]
Source: The New York Times | Simon Marks and Declan Walsh It was the latest of several bloody outbursts over the past year in the western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, along the border with Sudan, where ethnic tensions are running high. At least 80 people were killed on Tuesday when unidentified gunmen stormed through a village […]
Source: Middle East Eye | Zecharias Zelalem Details of the damage inflicted on the al-Nejashi mosque – believed to be one of the oldest mosques in Africa – took weeks to emerge The conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region – pitting the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies against rebel Tigray forces since 4 November – […]