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Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their war of words over water

THE INDEPENDENT Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/egypt-nile-war-water-ethiopia-clash-dam-trump-a9390271.html By Ahmed Aboudouh 10 March 2020 Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their war of words over water: Donald Trump can actually help mediate the dispute before it escalates into violence Boats dock along the Nile River shoreline in Luxor Read more…

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Ethiopia’s Abiy faces outcry over crackdown on rebels

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/20200229-ethiopia-s-abiy-faces-outcry-over-crackdown-on-rebels Issued on: 29/02/2020 – 05:10Modified: 29/02/2020 – 05:08 Nekemte (Ethiopia) (AFP) Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, never showed much interest in politics, so his family has no idea how soldiers concluded he was involved in a rebel movement active in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. But one day in Read more…

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Ethiopia: Vendor killed, musician injured after police attack opposition supporters in Oromia

17 February 2020, 18:42 UTC Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/02/ethiopia-vendor-killed-musician-injured-after-police-attack-opposition-supporters-in-oromia/ Police in Ethiopia launched an attack on opposition party supporters in the Oromia Region on Saturday, killing one person and arresting and injuring scores more. Just hours after the date for Ethiopia’s parliamentary elections was announced, the Oromia Liyu police raided the inauguration Read more…

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Ethiopia’s naive peacemaking could lead to war

OPINION Ethiopia’s naive peacemaking could lead to war by Michael Rubin | February 17, 2020 09:43 AM Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ethiopias-naive-peacemaking-could-lead-to-war Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy is on a high. In October 2019, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict Read more…

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Drivers of ethnic conflict in contemporary Ethiopia

ISS Drivers of ethnic conflict in contemporary Ethiopia Semir Yusuf Source: https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/mono-202-2.pdf Contents Executive summary ………………………………………………………………………v Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Conflict in Ethiopia today …………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1Institutions shape ethnic relations and cause nationalist antagonisms……………5 Pre-1991 Ethiopia…………………………………………………………………………..5 Post-1991 Ethiopia………………………………………………………………………….6 Chapter 2 Era of political liberalisation and unbridled contending nationalism ………………11 The north ……………………………………………………………………………………11 Read more…

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Amnesty International: Ethiopian authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests

News: Ethiopia: Authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests 27 January 2020, 18:52 UTC Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/01/ethiopia-authorities-crack-down-on-opposition-supporters-with-mass-arrests/ Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 75 supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were arrested over the weekend from various places in different parts of Oromia Regional State, as Ethiopian Read more…

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Nobel Peace Prize winner accused: Civilians are murdered and tortured

Source: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/nobel-peace-prize-winner-accused-civilians-are-murdered-and-tortured/ Publicerad 9 dec 2019 18.33 https://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/hear-the-mursi-people-tell-of-torture-and-persecution-by-ethopian-military/ SOUTHERN OMO, ETHIOPIA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recieves the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow in Oslo. But at the same time the security forces of this year’s Nobel Peace laureate are being accused of quietly killing and torturing people from the Mursi, Read more…

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Double Standards: Ethiopia Must Solve its Internal Displacement Crisis

Source: The Global Post https://theglobepost.com/2020/01/09/ethiopia-idps-refugees/ by Nikita Taniparti January 9, 2020 in Opinion People gather for a food distribution at the Farbudo internally displaced person camp, in Gode, near Kebri Dahar, southeastern Ethiopia. Photo: Yonas Tadesse, AFP June 2019. The spacious lobby of the Hilton in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa Read more…

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Plugging the Leaky Bucket: A Technologist’s View of Ethio Telecom’s Proposed Privatization

Source: https://dinagddee.com/2019/07/09/plugging-the-leaky-bucket-a-technologists-view-of-ethio-telecoms-proposed-privatization/ Published by Demessie Girma on 2019-07-09 Innovations as Catalysts for Growth Technological innovation is one of the fundamental instruments of growth to help developing countries lift themselves out of poverty. In the context of economic developments over recent decades, technological innovations draw exemplary inspirations from the Four Asian Read more…

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Ethiopia’s leader warns plotters following coup attempt

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ethiopias-leader-warns-plotters-following-coup-attempt/2019/07/01/c2e1241a-9c18-11e9-83e3-45fded8e8d2e_story.html?utm_term=.fdcf50e44a61 By Elias Meseret | AP July 1 at 12:01 PM ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s prime minister has issued a strong warning to anyone who would plot to topple his government, following a coup attempt in the country’s northwestern Amhara region. Addressing lawmakers on Monday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Read more…

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