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March 2021

Ethiopia’s Amhara region rejects charge of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Tigray

Addis Ababa (AFP) March 11, 2021 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s Amhara region has denied that its forces were engaged in “ethnic cleansing” in conflict-hit Tigray, one day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken used the phrase in public testimony. Earlier this week, Tigrayan officials accused Amhara forces of kicking thousands of people off land in

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Federal Police free Keria Ibrahim as prosecutors seek to bring terrorism, criminal charges against 20 former TPLF leaders

By Mahlet Fasil @mahletfasil The Federal police has told a federal court this morning that Keria Ibrahim, former speaker of the House of Federation, (HoF) was already released from detention. Keria, a member of TPLF’s Executive Committee, was reported by state affiliated media as having surrendered on December 01/2020. At a court hearing in February, the

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Egypt and Sudan want an international quartet to replace SA as mediator of the Nile dam negotiations

BY PETER FABRICIUS March 10, 2021 With the rainy season approaching, tensions are once again rising among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, just before it flows into Sudan. Addis Ababa is preparing for its second filling of the dam when

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Concern about U.S. State Department Statement on the Ethiopian Internal Affairs

Washington Update – By Mesfin Mekonen March 10, 2021   Concern about U.S. State Department statement. Ethiopian-Americans are deeply concerned by the lack of balance and objectivity in the U.S. State Department’s recent statement about the situation in Tigray. The statement includes unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations, including suggesting that the Amhara people have invaded Tigray.

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“The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend”: the Short-Sighted Trajectory behind the Sudanese Aggression of Ethiopia

By: Merhatsidk MekonnenAbayneh Background Having enjoyed for long the status of good neighbors sharing much in common due to geographical proximity and socio-cultural interaction, Sudanese and Ethiopians know each other quite well when it comes to border skermishes  for quite a while. It is not that strange for both neighboring countries to test each other’s

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