NAIROBI, Kenya (AP | Cara Anna) — Ethiopia’s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has “returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe terrified Tigray residents hiding in bullet-marked homes and a vast rural area where effects of the fighting and food shortages are yet unknown. The conflict that began […]
Eritrea Hub | This is a slightly shortened article by Alem Berhe When the war broke out, I was in the beautiful capital of Tigray – Mekelle, visiting immediate family. On November 3, I sat down for dinner at GG Hotel in the Adi Shumduhun area, where I made dramatic arguments to a group of […]
Transcript Call between Mulugeta Gebrehiwot and Alex de Waal 27 January 2021 Additional background information and audio are available on the WPF blog, “Reinventing Peace.” For more information: worldpeacefoundation.org Listen to the interview [The first minute of the call was not recorded. Mulugeta started by describing the onset of the war.] Mulugeta: … and the […]
The Telegraph | The men are thought to be being sent to Tigray to fight in Ethiopia’s civil war. Anger is mounting in Somalia over allegations young men are being secretly recruited and sent to Eritrea to fight in Ethiopia’s civil war. Three families told Reuters their young sons had officially been recruited by Somalia’s […]
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese ambassador to Ethiopia Zhao Zhiyuan and Mayor of Ethiopia’s capital city Adanech Abiebie agreed on Friday to enhance the economic partnership between the two countries. In a press statement, Abiebie said she has reached an agreement with the Chinese ambassador to Ethiopia on the need to add new […]
American Magazine | The Jesuit Review | Kevin Clarke With journalists, aid workers and U.N. officials largely cut off and local internet and mobile services blocked, much remains unknown about what has been happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray region over the last three months, but accounts emerging from farmers and villagers escaping the fighting between Tigrayan militia […]
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peace building, refugee protection and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central Mediterranean […]
MSF | Relief Web | Since early November, a military escalation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has caused widespread violence and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Albert Viñas, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provided the following account today: Almost three months after the start of the conflict, I am […]
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia plans to seek a restructuring of its sovereign debt under a new G20 common framework and is looking at all the available options, the country’s finance ministry told Reuters on Friday. Ethiopia’s government bonds saw their biggest ever daily fall on the news and analysts said restructuring concerns could spill over […]
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peace building, refugee protection and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central Mediterranean […]
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