August 2022

by Tesfa-alem Tekle August 29, 2022 (NAIROBI) – The northern region of Ethiopia witnessed a serious escalation on Saturday when the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) launched a large-scale offensive and took several cities controlled by the government. Recently, the warring parties in Ethiopia accused each other of violating a humanitarian truce that reached amide […]

Tigray rebels claim drone attacks in the regional capital, Mekele in the wee hours of Tuesday Seleshi Tessema  Aguast 31, 2022 Heavy fighting between the Ethiopian army and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces has continued on several fronts in northern Ethiopia, while a TPLF official said Ethiopian air force drones attacked Mekelle, the capital

The Sudanese foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned the Ethiopian ambassador, saying Ethiopia had shot down a plane from Sudanese airspace. On August 24, the Ethiopian army announced that it had shot down a plane loaded with weapons destined for the rebels in Tigray (north), which had “violated Ethiopian airspace” after flying over Sudan. At a

By JIM HEINTZ MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a

Khartoum – Mohammed Amin Yassin Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan, Yibeltal Aemero, accused on Monday many parties, he refused to name, of interfering and supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to fuel the conflict in his country. In a press conference in Khartoum, the ambassador called on the international community and neighboring countries to exert

By Katharine Houreld (Reuters) – A ship carrying wheat from Ukraine to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa docked on Tuesday, the United Nations said, the first to make the journey since the Russian invasion six months ago. The vessel Brave Commander is carrying 23,000 tonnes of grain and will soon be followed by another carrying

Jamal OsmanAfrica Correspondent Chanel 4 News Over a year into Ethiopia’s civil war, one of the federal government’s top military commanders says they’re planning on entering Mekelle, the capital of the rebel Tigray region, to – “eliminate” the last of their enemy. US diplomats flew into Addis Ababa last week, hoping to broker a ceasefire

 by Ansh Pandey/ Tfiglobal  August 28, 2022 The days of Africa remaining a toothless tiger is over. Now the second largest continent has started growling. While the conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on, Africa has begun to change for the better Last year at the COP26 Summit, more than 54 African nations proposed 1.3 Trillion per

 Leads Me Back to the Berlin Conference of November 15, 1884 – February 26, 1885 Aklog Birara (Dr) Part 6 of 8 I urge all Black Africans never to forget Europeans divided Africa into colonies and sphere of influence a century and half ago. Europe engaged in massive slave trade, colonial occupation and exploitation of