"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
The brutal murder of an Oromo-Orthodox man in Shashemene town by Oromia regional police has symbolized the key ideological difference between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) and a breakaway rebel clergy in Oromia. Gemechu Gudina was an ethnic Oromo and one of the Orthodox faithful reportedly killed by Oromia police at the St. Michael […]
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TPLF head and leader of the Tigray rebellion Debretsion Gebremichael met the peace delegation sent by Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed on December 25. Over two years after his TPLF group launched the war with a deadly “preemptive strike” on the federal government in November 2020, the rebel leader held a meeting with Ethiopian […]
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(Awasa Guardian) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has successfully pushed a renegotiation over Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) as the dam approaches completion. The White House and the World Bank have gotten involved as mediators, effectively sidelining years of trilateral consultations between Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt. Analysts familiar with Cairo’s strategic and diplomatic maneuvers […]
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On Oct. 11, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the long stalemate with neighboring Eritrea. Paradoxically, Abiy enjoys only fragmented and diminishing popular support in his own country. Even in his home region of Oromia, his leadership is seriously contested by the ethnonationalist forces represented by the social media […]
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