Andrew Korybko He’s immorally taking advantage of the Western population’s growing awareness of their authorities’ racist policies to manipulate perceptions in order to mislead that targeted audience into wrongly thinking that their governments’ scaling back of support for the TPLF is due to racism against Tigrayans when it was actually their tangible support for that…
Category: ETHIOPIA
The Plot to Replace the African Union’s Role in the Ethiopian Peace Process Won’t Succeed
Andrew Korybko What’s happening is patently obvious to any objective observer, and it’s that the US and EU are trying to finagle themselves into the Ethiopian peace process by hook or by crook in order to preserve some of their zero-sum hegemonic interests in that country through their TPLF proxies. The latest Hybrid War plot against Ethiopia…
US Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with “Genocide Designation”
Ann Garrison Eugene Puryear, author Ann Garrison, Rania Khalek, Simon Tesfamariam at Eritrea Festival in Dallas (Photo: Twitter @SebleTsehaye) I had the honor of being invited to address the annual Eritrean Festival, which was held in Dallas this year during the first week of August. These are my remarks. Greetings. Thank you for inviting me…
Ethiopia: The Hard Road to Peace
Viktor Mikhin There has been a lot of talk about peace in Ethiopia lately, and, according to many international observers, this is a truly new trend in domestic politics. But at the same time, there is a long and winding road ahead before the country can see the end of hostilities, famine and delayed state…
Will Al Shabaab Become America’s Next Proxy in its Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia?
Andrew Korybko The pieces are in place for the US to employ Al Shabaab as proxies for continuing its Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia if American strategists decide to do so following the failure of their TPLF puppets to overthrow their target’s democratically elected government or “Bosnify” its administrative borders. The Western-led TPLF-driven Hybrid War of…
Key Al-Shabaab Leaders Killed in Attacks Along Ethiopia-Somalia Border
Pavan Kulkarni Al-Shabaab leader Fuad Mohamed Khalaf aka Shongole was reportedly killed on the Ethiopia-Somalia border on Friday, July 29. The wave of Al-Shabaab attacks along Ethiopia’s borders with Somalia might further complicate the security situation in the country by introducing religious extremism amid existing ethnic tensions Al-Shabaab’s key financier, Fuad Mohamed Khalaf aka Shongole, sanctioned…
My Family and Friends are Victims of TPLF Atrocities
Almaz Endeshaw Exactly 41 years ago, my father and 30 other relatives and friends were snatched from their home in the Northwestern part of Ethiopia called Wolkaite. All of them were peaceful peasant farmers and were never involved in any conflict. Yet they were never to be seen again. They were taken by a group called…
Ethnic Violence Plagues Ethiopia Near its Mighty New Dam
Ann Garrison Candlelight vigil outside the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Mekane Selam Medhane Alem Cathedral in Oakland, California, for those who died in the massacre in Wellega, Oromia Region, Ethiopia on June 18. Ongoing conflict in Ethiopia continues to claim the lives of many civilians, as recently happened in the Wellega region. Ethiopians have been in…
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part V
Ann Garrison Ethiopian Orthodox Christian monk Aba Gebreselassie explains how he fled when the TPLF invaded Waldeba Monastery in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. University of Gondar Professor Menychle Meseret Abebe listens and translates. (Photo: Alastair Thompson) Ann Garrison ends her reporting from the Horn of Africa with updates on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the…
US Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
Ann Garrison United Nations World Food Programme trucks in Ethiopia The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own. Ann Garrison continues reporting from the region. During…
The Bloodshed Plaguing the People of the Horn of Africa. What is America’s Role?
Michael Welch, Elias Amare, and Ann Garrison People hold candles and Ethiopian flags during a memorial service for the victims of the Tigray conflict organised by the city administration, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia © Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty “As the Director-General of WHO, I have a duty to protect and promote health wherever it is under threat, and there…
Notes from Ethiopia, Part IV: The TPLF Destruction of Afar
Ann Garrison Afar IDPs who fled TPLF attack on Abala, Afar Region, Ethiopia, now sheltering with relatives in Semara. Three children here suffer the symptoms of measles, which could fatally sweep through Afar IDP camps and hospitals. (Photo: Ann Garrison, 05.16.2022) Contributing Editor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is once…