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Ethiopia

  • Tigray Ethiopia torture. A man obscured in a window in Addis Ababa. Credit: Thomas Leuthard.
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    “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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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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  • Tigrayans in Ethiopia targeting Addis Ababa
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    Tigrayans in Ethiopia fear becoming “the next Rwanda”

    By Jaclynn Ashly
    July 12, 2021
    As hate speech and targeting of Tigrayans escalates in Addis Ababa, many are terrified and some are planning to flee. Yared* has not left ...
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  • Haacaaluu Hundeessaa in his song Malan Jira.
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    Haacaaluu Hundeessaa Boonsaa: A legacy larger than death

    By Fatuma Bedhaso
    July 2, 2021
    A year after Haacaaluu’s assassination, I miss him. Oromia misses him. Ethiopia misses him. But his legacy of kindness and resistance lives on. Hundeessaa ...
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  • ethiopia elections Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's international reputation has plummeted since he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Credit: Bair175.
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    Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed’s two options after the election

    By Mohammed Girma
    June 21, 2021
    The Prime Minister’s party is likely to consolidate power in today’s elections. How he will use this power is less clear. Barely three years ...
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  • Tigray investigation; Security officers at a UN flag raising ceremony in Addis Ababa. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Zerihun Sewunet.
    EthiopiaPoliticsTop story

    Why the Tigray investigation should be conducted by the UN, alone

    By Goitom Gebreluel & Mulu Beyene
    March 25, 2021
    Any probe into war crimes that involves the AU or the government’s own human rights commission stands little chance of being effective. Since 4 ...
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