"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
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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Ethiopia and Samantha Power’s militarized humanitarianism By Abebe Gellaw USAID Administrator Samantha Power’s much-hyped mission to Ethiopia flopped on her arrival. What awaited her was not a fanfare of warm reception that American officials are normally guaranteed. She was given the cold shoulder. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed snubbed her in a stinging manner even though […]
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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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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 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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(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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