Tag: Ethiopia
President Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud visited soldiers deployed in Eritrea
After three years of denials or contradictory declarations, we now know a little more about the thousands of Somali soldiers sent to train in Eritrea, and whose very existence has…
WFP must ration aid to refugees in Africa due to lack of funding
The World Food Program (WFP) is asking for 426 million dollars to be able to meet the needs of refugees, it announced on Sunday June 19, as World Refugee Day…
The Horn of Africa experiences its worst drought in forty years
More than 18 million people are left in acute food insecurity after a fourth dry rainy season in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. More than seven million head of cattle have…
Forced recruitment of Eritrean soldiers ‘increased’, says UN report
The UN special rapporteur on the situation in Eritrea has presented his annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. As since the creation of this function in 2012,…
Ethiopia smothers Egypt, Guinea win in extremis in qualifying
The second day of the CAN 2023 qualifiers saw Ethiopia sign a very good performance on Thursday, June 9, against Egypt. The Pharaohs, off topic, did not see the light…
Ethiopia criticizes aid organizations
The aid organizations transport more fuel than is allowed and bring with them equipment that “can be used by the terrorist group to achieve its goals”, says Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime…
In Ethiopia, Oromo journalists in the crosshairs of justice
After a first wave in ultranationalist circles in the Amhara region, several Oromo media figures have been arrested in recent days, despite the protest of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission,…
Wave of arrests of journalists in Ethiopia
They are at least 16 in detention, unheard of since the coming to power of Abiy Ahmed in 2018 who, at the time, was hailed for his liberalization of the…
wave of repression against the most radical of the State of Amhara
The Ethiopian government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is cracking down on the most radical elements of the Amhara state’s political and paramilitary forces, which had spearheaded the war in…
Famine spreads in East Africa and threatens millions of people
This is the chilling conclusion of a study published this week by the organizations Oxfam and Save The Children, supported by the Jameel Observatory: in East Africa, a person is…