AFP An armed group has killed “many civilians” in Ethiopia’s most populous region, local authorities said Saturday, just 11 days after talks between the government and the Oromo Liberation Army ended without agreement. Classified as a “terrorist organisation” by Addis Ababa, the OLA has been fighting the government since 2018 after splitting from the Oromo …

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US Ambassador official tweet on Addis/Finfiné was intentional and It must be condemned in the STRONGEST SENSE POSSIBLE. We must present the danger posed by Oromo Extremists IN NO UNCERTAIN TERM Dagnachew Teshome   Bishop Luqas lambasted #AbiyTheBarbaric & his war crimes. His message to Abiy: “Please listen the church, don’t burn crop! don’t kill …

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Yonas Biru, PhD This week’s Congressional Hearing titled “Ethiopia: Promise or Perils, the State of U.S. Policy” revealed very insightful points. For those who are not prisoners of a hermitized mindset one important issue is worth paying attention to.   At the 38:20 minutes mark of the hearing, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs stated: “According to a …

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The embargo was placed on Somalia in 1992 to cut the flow of weapons to feuding warlords in the country. Recognizing the benchmarks reached on implementing the security transition, the Somalia Transition Plan and the national security architecture, the Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution lifting the arms embargo on the Federal Government of …

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The Abiy military continues to slaughter Amhara civilians using heavy weapons including drones. There is no exact data but the killings and destruction in the Amhara region are massive. Among the questions posed in advance of the hearing on which we expect responses from Mike Hammer and Deputy Director, Tyler Beckelman, USAID. are: 1. ” What is …

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Washington Update by Mesfin Mekonen December 1, 2023 The House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing on “Ethiopia: Promise or Perils, The State of U.S. Policy” on Thursday, November 30th. Witnesses included Mike Hammer. U.S. State Department Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, Tyler Beckelman, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Africa at …

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On November 30, 2023, I attended the highly anticipated hearing of the US Congress Sub-Committee on Africa chaired by Congressman John James. He offered a compelling picture of gross human rights violations and atrocities in Ethiopia and posed hard questions to Mike Hammer, US Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa. Other members of the …

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    US Congress Hears Testimony on Ethiopia

BY MESFIN TEGENU In recent weeks, the world’s gaze has been intensely focused on a war halfway around the world. Intense fighting between Israel and Hamas has left thousands of people dead, including many children, and generated television images that make it hard to look away. At the same time, just 1,500 miles south of …

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The war against the Amhara people was initiated by the Abiy regime. Before this war, the Amhara region was the most peaceful in Ethiopia. While Amhara are denied rights outside the Amhara region, members of other ethnic groups lived and worked in the Amhara region without persecution. The region is therefore a model of multinationalism and diversity. Tragically, …

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The Honorable Antony Blinken Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C St. NW Washington D.C. November 25, 2023 Dear Secretary Blinken: We, the undersigned civic organizations of American Ethiopians, express, in the strongest terms, our outrage at the recent scandalous reference to the Ethiopian capital, in an official Tweet by the US Embassy …

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Bruke Lemma, PhD “False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.” – Richard Burton When Abiy Ahmed and his fellow Oromo ethno-extremists orchestrated the country’s takeover, it was a meticulously planned operation, coordinated by the Oromo Democratic Party …

Unveiling a Stealthy Campaign: Yonas Biru’s Dangerous Crusade Against Eskinder Nega, Shaleka Dawit Woldegiorgis and Beyond Read More »

I won’t wait for death, sleeping on my bed I will go to it, riding the macabre horse Nor will I bath with tears, sitting and weeping I won’t kneel down, bending my knees I will not wait for it, to come and take me I will go to it, so it doesn’t come for …

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