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September 2022

Over 200 civilians massacred in the Umuru district of Horo Guduru, Oromia Region

Over 200 civilians massacred in the Umuru district of Horo Guduru, Oromia Region

Washington Update – by Mesfin Mekonen September 30, 2022   While the world is focused on the tragedy in Ukraine, Ethiopia is falling further into chaos. The most recent tragedy occurred over the last week in the Umuru district of Horo Guduru zone in the Oromo region, where over 200 civilians have been massacred. Ethiopian […]

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The ‘New Auschwitz’: Wollega, Oromia region, Ethiopia

The ‘New Auschwitz’: Wollega, Oromia region, Ethiopia

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   Introduction: A few years ago, I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, on the sites of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Last week, I visited a Jewish cultural center/museum

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“TPLF is transporting its combatants on trucks” The Embassy of Ethiopia in Brussels

“TPLF is transporting its combatants on trucks” The Embassy of Ethiopia in Brussels

The Embassy of Ethiopia in Brussels asked the International Community to stop TPLF from using WFP humanitarian trucks for wafare. In its Twitter message the Embassy said “The IC should not sit idly by, as reports reveal that #TPLF is transporting its combatants on trucks that have been illegally painted with the logos of the

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Opening Banking Sector to Foreign Investors Lures FDI, Advances Financial Inclusion

Opening Banking Sector to Foreign Investors Lures FDI, Advances Financial Inclusion

Ethiopian Finance Minister The decision to open up the banking sector to foreign investors will help to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), advance financial inclusion, and create service competitiveness, Finance Minister Ahmed Shide said. The Council of Ministers has recently passed a landmark decision to open the Ethiopian banking sector to foreign investors. In an

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How Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed Lost The World

How Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed Lost The World

By Michael Rubin It has now been almost three years since the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Abiy Ahmed as the recipient of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation.” Abiy received international plaudits. CNN called him a “modern day African leader.” Other African leaders congratulated him on twitter. Terrence Lyons, a professor of conflict resolution at

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The Renowned Ethiopian Vocalist Madingo Afework Passed Away

The Renowned Ethiopian Vocalist Madingo Afework Passed Away

By Abiy Solomon The Renowned Ethiopian Vocalist Madingo Afework Passed Away From A Sudden Illness. The Report Of Madingo’s Death Was Heard On Sept 27 And Addis Zeybe Could Confirm The News From His Mourning Close Musician Friends.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Shared His Condolences On His Twitter Page Saying, “I’m Deeply Saddened By The Death

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Meskel, the Ethiopian ‘True Cross’ Celebration in the Ethiopian Orthodox church

Meskel, the Ethiopian ‘True Cross’ Celebration in the Ethiopian Orthodox church

BY SOLOMON DIBABA The Ethiopian New Year comes up with various religious and cultural celebrations which are marked indoors among families and outdoors with the entire public in mammoth paraphernalia Meskel, the holiday celebrated in commemoration of the Finding of the True Cross. This year Meskel is celebrated in Ethiopia amidst two sets of wars

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Peace in Ethiopia requires exiling TPLF leaders to a safe haven

Peace in Ethiopia requires exiling TPLF leaders to a safe haven

Yonas Biru, PhD September 26, 2022 A lasting peace can come only if the international community takes deliberate actions to alter the TPLF’s political calculus. The current war between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is the third war since November 2020. According to the US special envoy to the

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