"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
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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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 […]
Read MoreWatch Video as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to take a moral stand against child soldiers and atrocities committed by a rebel insurrection in Tigray province of Ethiopia. The US State Department official Ned Price that she referred to has also refused to condemn the TPLF insurrectionists who have triggered a humanitarian crisis in […]
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By Alemu T. Gutema * Despite ongoing reports of exploited child soldiers, murder of Eritreans in refugee camps and other mass killings committed by TPLF in Raya region of Tigray, the pro-rebel Tigrayan journalist Lucy Kassa has now suddenly shifted to publishing only about happiness and celebrations in Tigray. Just this week alone, independent Tigrayan journalist […]
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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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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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