"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
United Nations (UN) admitted on Friday that authorities in the rebel-held Tigray forced U.N. humanitarian flights to be suspended. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the UN “received instructions to abort landing by the Mekelle airport control tower,” referring to personal of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) controlling the airport at the capital of Tigray […]
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The 2021 Irecha holiday is being celebrated peacefully in Ethiopia with large scale participation nationwide, despite anti-government calls for boycott. The Oromo holiday commemorating the end of winter in Oromia has recently transformed into an Ethiopian thanksgiving holiday. The celebrations have been colorful in various Oromia locations and only the third time the Oromo holiday […]
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In a new alarming statement by military leaders of the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the generals claimed to have secured “diplomatic, legal and moral support” to prolong the war that they began in November, 2020. They also reiterated TPLF chairman Debretsion Gebremichael’s original call for “People’s war,” which he defined as “a war carried […]
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Col. Demeke Zewdu, Deputy Head of Security for the Welkait Tegede Humera region, told local media the United States government is “indirectly at war” with Ethiopia due to its multifaceted support for the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) rebels and their Sudanese, Egyptian backers. His statement came after US added sanctions and US embassy recently […]
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Seven months after Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters were caught staging a film of atrocities by Eritrean refugees, authorities in Addis Ababa revealed how TPLF “dumped more than 300 dead bodies” of their own fighters to transport and prepare them for new propaganda. Meanwhile, over 330,000 Amharas have been displaced and at least 37 […]
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Tsedale Niguse is a Tigrayan in Mekelle who fled from Abergele region in southern Tigray when the war began in November. According to Western media, she was among the many Tigrayans who were raped by Eritrean and Ethiopian armies in December, but she told an AG source that widespread sexual violence continues today in Mekelle […]
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An AFP News agency photojournalist accused Amnesty International (AI) of misusing his photo for “unrelated” and debunked story of alleged ethnic profiling of Tigrayans in Ethiopia. AFP journalist Amanuel Sileshi asked Amnesty on Friday to “take down the photo.” The controversy began after a rise in Ethiopian government’s crackdown on supporters of the Tigrayan Peoples […]
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After President Joe Biden’s US State Department gave green light for TPLF invasion of Amhara, North Gondar administration sent decree on Monday demanding all able-bodied citizens to join a local army and defend the zone’s Welkait region. Witnesses say there is mass mobilization of men with the local Gondar government enlisting people for military service. […]
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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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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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