"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
(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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(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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By Samuel Gabisso For many people of Sidama nation, the conflict in Tigray was first felt when their sons serving in the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) were sent down to Hawassa in body-bags or lost contact with them forever, after the TPLF treasonously massacred its own federal army protecting the border with Eritrea. Since […]
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Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) said the party intends to participate in the upcoming election but its operations continue to be hindered due to internal division. Interim OLF leader Ararso Bikila said election preparations are still ongoing though work has been obstructed by the suspended former Chairman Dawud Ibsa. OLF spokesperson Tolera Adaba also claimed negotiations […]
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Raymond B. Charles is South African journalist based in Cape Town After an insurrection in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray took place in November, the federal government has crackdown on the rebellion and arrested its TPLF rebel leaders. Since then, some parts of Ethiopian social media has spread the #TigrayGenocide hashtag, so what is it […]
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We interviewed an Eritrean refugee who left Hitsats camp in November and is now living in Addis Ababa. The refugee Meron insisted that Awasa Guardian (AG) use only her first name for protection and she reveals how soldiers of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) committed war crimes in Hitsats camp by indiscriminately shooting at […]
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