"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
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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(AG) Ethnic Koore Witnesses from Amaro Woreda of Southern Ethiopia said Oromo gunmen have escalated border attacks this week, leading to more deaths and destruction. The latest attacks targeted Darba district of the region and the Oromo fighters crossed the Oromia border thru Guji Zone. Significant property has been destroyed while more locals are displaced […]
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An “AFP Africa” report published on Wednesday titled “Troubles pile up ahead of Ethiopia’s first polls under Abiy” was red flagged by Awasa Guardian (AG) readers who cited it for several misinformation on the upcoming election in Ethiopia. In one instance, its figures were off by over 600 percent. AFP CLAIM: only 200,000 voters have […]
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As Tigrayan militia men were “preparing to film a scene” staging Eritrean soldiers mutilating women’s breasts, the refugee hostages who became actors forced to dressed up in Eritrean army uniform, made a daring escape in December, in a new damning revelation from Tigray disclosed Friday by an European migrant advocate Dr Natalia Paszkiewicz. Polish-European anthropologist […]
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Press ReleaseApril 9, 2021 Representatives of several Ethiopian civic organizations from North America and Europe were briefed about a newly established organization, American Ethiopian Public Affairs Committee (AEPAC) during a virtual meeting on April 3, 2021. AEPAC is a legally registered organization in the United States as a Political Action Committee (PAC,) governed and regulated […]
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(Press Release) Dear Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Our Ethiopian-American community in New York would like to thank you for your continued effort for immigration reform, including on the latest legislation by House Democrats. Our NYC area, particularly your district NY14, has one of the largest Ethiopian-American community in the Tristate area, which our group NY-NJ Ethiopian […]
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(AG) – The controversial source of CNN’s latest report in Tigray, Stalin Gebreselassie, once claimed the TPLF fighters had “zero casualties” during the conflict, according to a Tigrayan whistleblower. Stalin’s unrealistic statement on the death toll figure was one of his many bizarre comments, including telling CNN’s Sudanese journalist Nima Elbagir that Ethiopian soldiers are […]
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By Francesca Ronchin (Italian TV Journalist RAI, LA7/ contributor for Panorama, Corriere Della sera) Here the English version of my story on the mystery of Axum massacre in Tigray for Panorama.it AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT A MASSACRE BY ERITREAN MILITARIES WITH HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS IN AXUM, ETHIOPIA.HOWEVER, THE FINDINGS ARE MISSING, IN […]
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