Ethiopia
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Tigray needs aid now, with or without the Ethiopian government’s consent
The aid blockade is illegal. The international community must call this out and not allow humanitarian needs to be politicised. Nearly 15 months into ... -
Four ways the Ethiopian government manipulates the media
From targeted harassment to blackouts, Addis Ababa has tried to dilute, distract and deflect from coverage of atrocities in the Tigray war. Despite near ... -
What could happen next in Ethiopia’s war of attrition?
While Abiy may control the plains, the TPLF are almost impossible to defeat in the mountains. The one factor that could change things is ... -
Religion once unified Ethiopia. It can again.
Religion is being used to divide people. Ethiopia needs a new social covenant centred on the “we” of humanity, not for the “us vs. ... -
“We thought he was dead”: Tigrayans speak of torture in detention
Many Tigrayans have been forcibly disappeared in recent months. Now some who have been released tell their stories. Tigrayans recently released from a military ... -
Tigray: One thing the warring parties and outside powers must unite on
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 ... -
If there must be war in Ethiopia…
A prisoner of conscience for many of the past 15 years, Eskinder Nega smuggled out the following plea from his detention in Addis Ababa. ... -
Tigray dispatch: “How do you expect to stop war crimes with a request?”
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 ... -
An open call by African intellectuals for urgent action on Ethiopia
Dismayed at the deteriorating conflict in Ethiopia, scores of African intellectuals call for dialogue and mediation. We write this letter as concerned African intellectuals ... -
Tigray: Our suffering may not be convenient, but it is real
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 ...
