"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
The Ethiopian ruling party’s Amhara Prosperity Party (PP) branch condemned the calls by the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) for more war. After the Ethiopian army withdrew from Mekelle, TPLF fighters have reportedly took over the Tigray city. Emboldened by their advance, TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda said his forces will “march to Addis Ababa.” The […]
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The main Ethiopian opposition party Ezema joined boycott of results by eight parties in Wolayta while revealing alleged election fraud in Konso. The Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice party, known locally with nickname Ezema, is contesting the 2021 election results in several Woredas and Zones of the south as reports of widespread fraud mount. In […]
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By Admasu Ashango * In 1884, European colonizers held the Berlin conference to carve up Africa and to “civilize” black people claiming that Africans were savages, inferior and “white man’s burden.” Over a century later, African people know that such racist “civilizing mission” rationale has mostly been replaced with a new pretext: a “humanitarian mission.” […]
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Days before BBC Tigrigna journalist Desta Gebremedhin picked up an AK-47 to join the TPLF insurgency, several VOA Tigrigna staffers were downplaying atrocities by the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) in Tigray. The situation escalated when current and former Tigrayan employees of VOA who supported TPLF began defaming VOA Amharic employees for not portraying only […]
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African-American actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish got praised by black lives matter activists this week for criticizing “racist” US foreign policy against Africa. President Joe Biden’s administration has come under fire for imposing economic sanctions against already poor Ethiopia and Eritrea, while providing billions of dollars for Egypt. At the center of the controversy is […]
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(AG) The Afar Regional State announced it has began administering land in eastern Tigray that is settled by ethnic Afar but was annexed by the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) in the 1990s. Located in Saesi Tsaedaemba woreda of Tigray (close to Afar’s Dalul woreda) a district known by Afars as saawnae was long contested […]
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