Tag: war in Ethiopia
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One Kicked Out, Two To Go
In 2018, when Abiy Ahmed made his overly promoted visit to Eritrea and “signed a peace agreement” with Isaias Afwerki, half the world media and the political tribes behaved like a child taken to a circus for the first time and watched sheepishly as wool was passed over their eyes. But the second half (and
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News and Information, Life and Property
My generation grew up consuming news. In Teashops, particularly in the morning, radios blasting, news bulletins from BBC Arabic, VoA, Monte Carlo, and many others. Every artisan on the streets had radios on the shopfronts. Each day I walked to school through the textile and grocery shops, tailors, tin artifact makers who made pots (jebena),
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The Two-Pronged Ethiopian Civil War: Propaganda and Bombs
Gedab news learned that Eritrean refugees in May-Aini and Adi-Harish refugee camps in Tigray, have not faced major displacement. The refugees are still in the camps where UNHCR is expected to reestablish its presence very soon. Workers of the Refugee agency in the camps, mostly Tigrayans, fled the camps when the war between the Ethiopian federal forces and regional