By Kieran Cooke | for Middle East Eye, It’s like negotiating the rules of engagement long after the contest has been held and the winner declared. Egypt is deeply worried about the impact on its water supply of a dam being built by Ethiopia far to the south, on the Blue Nile. At a meeting…
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By The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Barely had the insurrection in Gondar subsided than Ethiopia’s government found itself facing other brushfires. Everywhere, the same resentment is being voiced over the stranglehold of Tigrays on government. Only on July 17 did the Federal Police and Ethiopian army, employing tear gas and firing heavy weaponry, managed to crush…
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By Sudan Tribune, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (aka the Janjaweed militias), Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, said his fighters have arrested about 600 Ethiopian illegal migrants near Sudan’s border with Libya and Egypt. Last June, hundreds of RSF elements have been deployed in the remote desert of the Northern State shortly after complaint by the…
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Sunday’s protest in Ethiopia involving tens of thousands of people in the northern Amhara region of Gondar is a rare example of an anti-government demonstration in the country. What’s behind the protests and how serious is that for the government? By BBC News, Sunday’s protest in Ethiopia involving thousands of people in Gondar, a city…
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By Emmanuel Igunza | for BBC Africa, Activists from Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, have called for more anti-government protests this weekend, days after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the northern city of Gondar. They say they will hold countrywide protests against what they describe as continued killings and other abuses by the…
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By Abel Kebedom, By now it must be clear to every Ethiopian that the western mainstream media is neither free nor impartial. Everything it does is intertwined with the western interest. If the news does not serve the western interest, thousands of people could disappear without the world population hearing a single word about their…
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By AFP, Ethiopian swimmer Robel Kiros Habte has won hearts in Rio but faced a vitriolic reaction at home Thursday due to accusations that nepotism is the only reason he is at the Olympics. The 24-year-old son of the country’s swimming boss ranked 59th out of 59 competitors in the men’s 100m freestyle heats on…
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By ESAT News, After several candid discussions and careful considerations of the current political, social, economic and humanitarian situations in Ethiopia, and all the damages caused by successive regimes and the TPLF/EPRDF regime in particular on the welfare and national interests of the peoples of Ethiopia and the security and sovereignty of our country, the…
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By Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Ethiopia, The Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Ethiopia remains deeply concerned about continuing threats to press freedom in Ethiopia, which include the recent 24-hour detention of three accredited journalists. Three journalists working in the Arsi Negele area of Oromia region in Ethiopia were detained by authorities for over 24 hours on…
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By Amanuel Biedemariam, The biggest mistake the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) ever made was to pick a fight against the people of Eritrea. It was a mistake to betray Eritrea, betray EPLF. It was historic miscalculation that will cost them for a long time to come. Their moves were short sighted, poorly thought-out and…
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By Gérard Prunier | for Le Monde diplomatique, Ethiopian army reconnaissance units crossed into the Tsorona region of Eritrea shortly before dawn on 12 June, and encountered Eritrean patrols. Within minutes, a long stretch of the former front line in the war of 1998-2000 erupted into heavy artillery shelling, tank movement and gunfire. Eritrea condemned…
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By Emmanuel Igunza | for BBC Africa,, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has apologized for “honest” mistakes contained in school textbooks, state-owned television has reported. The ministry had revealed that several text books published between 2004 and 2010 had wrongly defined boundaries of the country’s regional states. The sixth grade English language textbook wrongly placed Ethiopia’s…
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By Prof. Al Mariam, …. Continued from Part – I TPLF is an organization founded on hate and animated by genocidal impulses: the evidence The fact that the TPLF is an organization founded on hate has never been publicly contested by TPLF leaders. The most persuasive and compelling evidence of the genocidal ideology of the…
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By Prof. Al Mariam, Author’s Note: I have written this commentary for several reasons. First, in my September 5, 2016 commentary, I announced that the TPLF will soon roll out a major disinformation campaign to discredit the massive popular uprising in the country and re-write the true story of valor and courage by the Ethiopian…
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By Keffyalew Gebremedh, Ethiopia and the United States held face-to-face discussion in New York on September 21, 2016 on the side of the UN General Assembly. The respective sides were led by the TPLF Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and his opposite number US Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield. The subject of their discussion was…
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By TesfaNews, Fertilizer heavyweight Israel Chemicals (NYSE:ICL) said on Thursday that its board of Directors have decided to abandon its potash project in Ethiopia citing failure by the government to provide the necessary infrastructure and regulatory framework for its Danakil project in northeast Ethiopia. Israel Chemicals (ICL) also said the rejection by the Ethiopian tax…
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By Rupert Colville | Spokesperson for the UNHCHR, There has been increasing unrest in several towns in the Oromia region, south east of Addis Ababa, since last Sunday when many people died after falling into ditches or into the Arsede lake while apparently fleeing security forces following a protest at a religious festival in the…
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By ESAT News, High ranking government officials are not allowed to leave the country without the authorization of the Command Post that was set up to enforce the state of emergency declared in Ethiopia a week ago, sources disclosed to ESAT. The ban was not included in the details of the emergency decree but sources…
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By Agencies, Fighters from al-Shabab have taken control of yet another town in central Somalia on Sunday immediately after it was abandoned by Ethiopian troops stationed there by African Union mission (UNISOM). It was the third time this month that the al-Qaeda-affiliated group moved into a town in the region after the withdrawal of Ethiopian…
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By Natalie Huet | for Politico, Three new candidates entered the race to lead the World Health Organization on Friday, responsible for tackling crises from Zika to the spread of superbugs, bringing the total in the running to six. The Geneva-based public health agency with 194-member countries announced Italian WHO official Flavia Bustreo, former Hungarian…
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