Seleshi Tessema |14.12.2020 Airports in region will begin handling commercial flights. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority on Monday allowed local and international commercial flights to use the airspace of the country’s northern Tigray region after a hiatus of more than a month. The airspace was closed this November after the country’s […]
By Khalid Abdelaziz ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited Ethiopia briefly on Sunday with what three senior Sudanese government officials said was an offer to broker a ceasefire in its northern Tigray region, a proposal Ethiopia said was unnecessary because fighting had stopped. Hamdok, who was accompanied by Sudanese security officials, planned
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By Aggrey Mutambo Senior Diplomatic Writer Nation Media Group Ethiopia has issued arrest warrants for more than 40 former senior military officers in connection with the conflict in the restive northern Tigray region. This is according to a statement issued by the Federal Police Commission on Friday night. Major General Tsadkan Gebretensay, a former chief of
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Author Contact information: Girma Berhanu Department of Education and Special Education (Professor) University of Gothenburg Box 300, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden E-mail: Girma.Berhanu@ped.gu.se The banality of Evil? How TPLF has evolved into a nefarious and villainous death machine “Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it,” the great French
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The Queen of Sheba December 12, 2020 Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ethiopia which was triggered by the ‘thunderous’ and pre-emptive attack of the TPLF cabal on the Northern Command of the Federal Army, the true colours of some of the reputable international media outlets and organizations are emerging. While it is expected
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NEW YORK, 11 December 2020 – In Sudan, nearly 50,000 people are currently seeking refuge—primarily in Gedaref and Kassala states. UNICEF and partners are working closely with the transitional government to rapidly respond to the increasingly complex needs of refugees and the communities that host them. An estimated 22,000 children have made the arduous and often traumatic journey to the
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Washington Update Dec. 10, 2020 U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, have introduced a resolution “calling on the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front to cease all hostilities, protect the human rights of
DYLAN HOUSMAN December 10, 2020 Two United States Senators want the government to consider placing sanctions on any Ethiopian officials found to be complicit in human rights violations as the country wages a civil war in its northern Tigray region. The resolution was introduced Wednesday by Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Sen.
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By Tessema Ijjigu and Mekonnen Haile December 10, 2020 The western media’s reporting on the conflict in northern Ethiopia has been unbalanced and consistently biased against Ethiopia. This should come as no surprise. It is characteristic of how the West treats developing countries, especially when they are acting in their own national interest. The general
