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November 2020

Tigray: How Ethiopia reached this crisis point and how it could get out

BY NICK WESTCOTT NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Virtually all Ethiopia’s neighbours and partners are against the conflict in Tigray, but can they stop it? Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Credit: Paul Kagame. The current crisis in Tigray has not appeared from the clear blue sky. Its roots are deep in Ethiopia’s history and its outcome will dictate the country’s

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Denver Protesters March To Raise Awareness Of Deadly Conflict In Ethiopia

DENVER (CBS4) – Carrying signs that said “Do Not Let It Become Genocide,” protestors marched down Lincoln Street to the State Capitol on Thursday afternoon. They called themselves concerned Ethiopians in Colorado. Other people carried signs saying, “You Waited on Hitler, You Waited on Sudan, You Waited on Rwanda Do NOT wait on Ethiopia,” referring to

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Tigray crisis: Local residents ordered to defend against Ethiopia army

BBC November 12, 2020 Residents of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been ordered to mobilise by authorities who say they must “defend” themselves from “flagrant aggression” from the federal government. Fears are growing of civil conflict in the east African country. Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed earlier rejected a request for peace talks from the Tigray

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I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America

https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/preface-read-by-barack-obama/s-DzoHtioEgeZ I wrote my book for young people—as an invitation to bring about, through hard work, determination, and a big dose of imagination, an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us. The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land,

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The Case for Restoring the Pre-1974 Provinces in a Federal Framework to advance Peace, Progress and National Integration in Ethiopia

By Assefa Mehretu (Ph.D.) Professor of Geography, Emeritus Michigan State University   August 18-19, Presented at the 10th International Conference on African Development, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2018 The impetus of this article on issues of boundary delineation in Ethiopia is the existential constitutional crisis created by the ethnic federalism based on tribal enclosures

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Ethiopia: Investigation confirms scores of civilians killed in Tigray state massacre

Amnesty International UK Press releases Hundreds killed and wounded in knife and machete attacks on night of 9 November Witnesses say Tigray People’s Liberation Front responsible ‘This is a horrific tragedy’ – Deprose Muchena Amnesty International has verified video footage and photographs that show scores of people were killed and wounded in knife and machete attacks in Ethiopia’s Tigray

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