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Ethiopia

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  • A mobile health and nutrition team providing critical services to displaced people in Afar region, which neighbours the Tigray region in Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2021/Mulugeta Ayene.
    EthiopiaPolitics

    Tigray needs aid now, with or without the Ethiopian government’s consent

    By Meron Gebreananaye, Saba Mah'derom, Kiros Teklay & Wintana Tsegai
    February 8, 2022
    The aid blockade is illegal. The international community must call this out and not allow humanitarian needs to be politicised. Nearly 15 months into ...
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  • At a media roundtable in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2015. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia / 2015/Tesfaye.
    Editor's PicksEthiopiaPolitics

    Four ways the Ethiopian government manipulates the media

    By Meron Gebreananaye, Saba Mah’derom & Kisanet Haile Molla
    February 1, 2022
    From targeted harassment to blackouts, Addis Ababa has tried to dilute, distract and deflect from coverage of atrocities in the Tigray war.  Despite near ...
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  • Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia giving a speech in 2019. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    EthiopiaPolitics

    What could happen next in Ethiopia’s war of attrition?

    By Nick Westcott
    December 17, 2021
    While Abiy may control the plains, the TPLF are almost impossible to defeat in the mountains. The one factor that could change things is ...
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  • Timkat celebrations, Lalebela, Ethiopia. Credit: Robert Wilson.
    EthiopiaSociety

    Religion once unified Ethiopia. It can again.

    By Mohammed Girma
    November 16, 2021
    Religion is being used to divide people. Ethiopia needs a new social covenant centred on the “we” of humanity, not for the “us vs. ...
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  • Tigray Ethiopia torture. A man obscured in a window in Addis Ababa. Credit: Thomas Leuthard.
    EthiopiaPoliticsTop story

    “We thought he was dead”: Tigrayans speak of torture in detention

    By Jaclynn Ashly
    October 25, 2021
    Many Tigrayans have been forcibly disappeared in recent months. Now some who have been released tell their stories. Tigrayans recently released from a military ...
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  • In a remote part of Tigray, Ethiopia. Credit: Rod Waddington.
    EthiopiaPolitics

    Tigray: One thing the warring parties and outside powers must unite on

    By Eskinder Nega
    October 19, 2021
    Famine-prone Ethiopia can ill-afford a war, but the region of Tigray more so than others. Ethiopia’s internal war has multiple facets which warrant the ...
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  • Eskinder Nega, recipient of many international freedom of expression awards, is currently being held in Kaliti Prison in Ethiopia.
    EthiopiaPoliticsTop story

    If there must be war in Ethiopia…

    By Eskinder Nega
    September 28, 2021
    A prisoner of conscience for many of the past 15 years, Eskinder Nega smuggled out the following plea from his detention in Addis Ababa. ...
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  • A survivor of gender-based violence from the war in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2021/Mulugeta Ayene
    Debating IdeasEthiopiaPolitics

    Tigray dispatch: “How do you expect to stop war crimes with a request?”

    By Mulugeta Gebrehiwot
    September 1, 2021
    From Tigray, where the government is trying to choke us to starvation, the international system’s dysfunction is clear. I was lucky to get a ...
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  • Ethiopia Tigray conflict open letter African intellectuals. The African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit: Albert González Farran/UNAMID.
    EthiopiaPolitics

    An open call by African intellectuals for urgent action on Ethiopia

    By Various co-signatories
    August 26, 2021
    Dismayed at the deteriorating conflict in Ethiopia, scores of African intellectuals call for dialogue and mediation. We write this letter as concerned African intellectuals ...
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  • Girls in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which has been at war since November 2020. Credit: Rod Waddington.
    Editor's PicksEthiopiaPoliticsSociety

    Tigray: Our suffering may not be convenient, but it is real

    By Temesgen Kahsay
    August 3, 2021
    The state’s one-sided narrative has not just shattered Ethiopians’ shared understanding of reality but eroded the social fabric that held us together. I grew ...
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