African Arguments With the declaration of the state of emergency in the Amhara region early on 4 August, 2023, the Abiy Ahmed administration appears to have finally come to grips with a security crisis that has been brewing since at least March this year. As of 2 August, the federal government had witnessed a series […]
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By a Guardian correspondent Ethiopia’s council of ministers has declared a state of emergency in the Amhara region after its leader said he was no longer able to contain a surge in violence between a local ethnic militia and the army. The office of the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, announced the emergency on Friday, saying attacks
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Yonas Biru, PhD Prime Minister Abiy’s government made the worst mistake in the war with TPLF when it entered Mekele in November 2020. At the time, the TPLF was militarily defeated and politically deflated. There was no long-term political or military gain in entering Mekele other than the Prime Minister’s bravado to wipe out TPLF
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By Yimer Ali The Amhara region endured significant suffering during the years of TPLF rule, which was followed by a two-year-long war. Schools, hospitals, and essential infrastructure were ravaged. The region was in the process of healing when another conflict was ignited by the Abiy administration. This marks a sad chapter in its history. Over
By Simon Marks, and Fasika Tadesse August 3, 2023 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopian Airlines canceled flights between Addis Ababa, the nation’s capital, and the northern Amhara region amid reports of fighting between government forces and a rebel group. Tensions between the Fano militia army — a group that recently allied with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in his two-year
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Yonas Biru, PhD The Oromo Prosperity Party-led government’s utter incompetence, Oromummaa’s lust to revive the long-expired 16th century hegemonic tribal rule in the 21st century, Abiy’s unending lies, and Shimelis Abdisa’s and Adanech Abebe’s mix of stupidity and arrogance have led to a Fanno Uprising. The uprising is organic, spontaneous, and widespread, not strategically guided,
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BY CARA ANNA AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Violent unrest is escalating in Ethiopia’s Amhara region as federal security forces clash with a local ethnic militia, leading the deputy prime minister in an unusually outspoken statement to call the situation “increasingly grave.” Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped by instability since April, when
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US Immigration Enforcement ATLANTA — On July 26, a federal jury in the Northern District of Georgia convicted Mezemr Abebe Belayneh, 67, of Snellville, Georgia, of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship by lying about his role in persecuting teenagers in Ethiopia for their political opinions. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Belayneh unlawfully
The Amhara militia was an ally of the Ethiopian army in the two-year-war against the Tigray region that ended in November. Ethiopia’s military has clashed with fighters from a militia in the Amhara region, residents said on Wednesday, in an escalation of a simmering feud between the two former allies that a doctor said had
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MELAKU WOREDE Place of Birth: Shewa, Ethiopia Date of Birth: 1936 Date of Death: July 31, 2023 Education: University of Nebraska, USA (PhD in Agronomy) Ethiopian conservationist, agronomist and Right Livelihood Laureate Melaku Worede, who established one of the world’s premier genetic conservation systems, passed away on Monday, July 31 at the age of 87. “Worede’s
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Washington Update – by Mesfin Mekonen August 1, 2023 1. Ethiopian Town Hall meeting: Over 400 Ethiopian-Americans attended a Town Hall meeting in Silver Spring, MD on July 30 to express support for the Amhara Popular Front, which was founded by Eskinder Nega, an civil society leader and journalist who is promoting human rights
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Yonas Biru, PhD This is a follow up to my article titled “Fanno in Need of Strategic Direction and Clarity of Endgame.” Let me start with four incontrovertible to set the stage for a candid conversation. First, the Amhara tribal land has extremist cabals that I have in the past called Amhara-Shene. Every political group has
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