How the Ethiopian leader and the peace award winner suddenly found himself fighting the Tigrayan rebels as a frontline soldier. “We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end,” said the famous French philosopher Blaise Pascal nearly four hundred years ago. Pascal’s centuries-old observation …
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The recent coup dashed hopes raised by the end of the military regime but newly liberated artists refuse to submit quietly Young Sudanese paint murals on a wall in the Khartoum neighbourhood of Arkawit last year. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Global development is supported by About this content Lizzy Davies Mon 6 …
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© WFP/Leni Kinzli Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region. 3 November 2021 Human Rights All parties involved in the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray must stop fighting immediately, or else risk pushing the region’s catastrophic humanitarian situation “over the edge”, …
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By Christopher Rhodes Christopher Rhodes is a lecturer at Harvard University, where he teaches courses including “Africa: Power and Politics,” and a lecturer in social sciences at Boston University. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s forces have not lost the war that he launched one year ago against the rebellious ruling …
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A year after fighting began, the war is intensifying. How many more civilians will pay? Sun 7 Nov 2021 18.30 GMT That wars are easy to begin and hard to end is a commonplace, but one which ambitious leaders still forget. Within weeks of launching his assault on the region of …
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Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki has long coveted access to Ethiopia’s economy. His alliance with Abiy Ahmed will let him achieve his goals at the expense of Ethiopian sovereignty. . By Seeye Abraha Hagos, a former Ethiopian defense minister and former senior member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. When U.S. Sen. Chris …
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The Eritrean president finds himself in an increasingly difficult situation. Abraham T Zere Exiled Eritrean journalist/writer based in the US Published On 28 Mar 2021 Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled to Asmara to meet Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki on March 25, 2021 [Aron Simeneh/Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia …
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