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July 2021

Afar People facing multiple catastrophic situations in the Region!

Statement of Afar UGUUGUMO Q. A. R.D. SAMARA Afar People facing multiple catastrophic situations in the Region! Date: 28/07/2021 Ref: 0042/ARP/21 On 18/07/2021, the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) invaded the Afar Region occupying four districts in Fanti-Rasu (zone 4). The main objective of TPLF invasion of Afar Region was not only to create conditions for ceasefire negotiations

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Protesters Close Road, Rail Links Between Djibouti, Addis Ababa – Official

By Reuters July 28, 2021 By Giulia Paravicini and Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s Somali region said on Wednesday a vital road and rail trade route linking the landlocked capital of Addis Ababa to the sea port of Djibouti was blocked by youths angered by a deadly militia attack on their region. Around 95% of imports

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A Four Step Proposal for a Peaceful Resolution of the Conflict Between the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray Regional Government

Yonas Biru, PhD July 28, 2021 On November 21, 2020, I proposed a way for a peaceful resolution. The article that appeared in the Ethiopian Reporter, stressed three points: “TPLF must honor the constitutional order and give the people of Ethiopia a chance to determine under what constitutional order they want to be governed.” “The

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The Plight of the Afar People

Ahmed Alimirah July 24, 2021 We strongly condemn the heinous indiscriminate attacks against the Afar people by The TPLF Junta. My condolences and sympathy go to the Afars who have suffered-those who have lost their loved ones, been displaced, and have suffered injuries and loss of property. The TPLF Junta is waging full scale war

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Joint Statement on the EU Digital COVID Certificate and AU-EU Partnership on COVID-19 vaccines distribution and production

Joint Statement on the EU Digital COVID Certificate and AU-EU Partnership on COVID-19 vaccines distribution and production

Addis Ababa 27 July 2021 This statement is issued in follow-up to the meeting held between Dr John Nkengasong, Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ambassador Birgitte Markussen, Head of European Union Delegation to the African Union, which took place on 22 July related to the launching of the EU

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Eritrean refugees in Tigray’s Mai Tsebri area face intimidation and harassment, live in constant fear

Peter Kenny | 27.07.2021 The UN Refugee Agency said Tuesday it is “extremely worried” about thousands of Eritrean refugees trapped in two refugee camps in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region as fighting escalates between armed groups in and around the camps. An estimated 24,000 Eritrean refugees in Mai Aini and Adi Harush camps in Tigray’s Mai

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Meron Hadero has become the first Ethiopian author to win the prestigious AKO Caine Prize for African Writing

“I’m absolutely thrilled, I’m in shock – being shortlisted in itself was a huge honour,” she told the BBC. Her winning short story is about an Ethiopian boy called Getu, who has to navigate the fraught power dynamics of NGOs and foreign aid in Addis Ababa. It impressed the judges who found it “utterly without

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Tel Aviv is secretly supporting Ethiopia in the dam crisis and intervening in the case with the aim of putting pressure on the Egyptians

Several thousand years after the Abrahamic religions’ story about the Nile River, Israelites, and Egypt, the three are meeting each other again in North Africa. An artery to Egypt, the Nile is constituted of the two Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. Blue Nile is a rich river originating in Ethiopia. The White Nile has

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Ethiopia’s Amhara state rallies youth to fight Tigrayan forces as war widens

July 25, 2021 Reuters Ethiopia’s Amhara region on Sunday called on “all young people” to take up arms against forces from the neighbouring region of Tigray, who claimed to have taken over a town in Amhara for the first time since the conflict began. “I call on all young people, militia, non-militia in the region,

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