US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed earlier this week to contribute troops to the fledgling International Security Force for Gaza, two Western diplomats familiar with the situation tell The Times of Israel. US President…
(La Tribune de Genève) Tesfu, who identifies as Eritrean, is 51 years old. He fled Ethiopia at the age of 16, before Eritrea gained independence, and has lived in Geneva without a residence permit for the past 35 years. Since…
An uneasy calm has settled over Gambela after two days of clashes triggered by the assassination of the city’s police chief, with residents reporting gunfire in several neighbourhoods and widespread disruption to daily life, Ethiopia Insider reported. The Gambella City…
Ninety-eight people who had been detained without trial for several years in Eritrea have been released from prisons, relatives of the former detainees have told BBC Tigrigna. According to the BBC, citing sources in Asmara and abroad, 36 detainees were…
The conflict between government forces and Fano armed groups in the Amhara region has severely disrupted daily life, residents have told Deutsche Welle Amharic, with many describing conditions as “unbearable.” People in several parts of the region warned that the…
ዋል ስትሪት ጆርናል ጋዜጣ ሶስት ሃያላን የቢዝነስ ሰዎች፥ ሁሉት አሜሪካውያንና አንድ ሩስያዊ ፥ ባለፈው ወር በማያሚ ባህርዳርቻ ላፕቶፓቸውን ይዘው፥ ከሦስት ዓመታት በላይ የዘለቀውን የሩሲያና ዩክሬን ጦርነት ለማስቆም ዕቅድ እያወጡ ነበር።ነገር ግን ተልእኳቸው ከዚያም ያለፈ አላማን ያነገበ ነበር።በአውሮፓና በአሜሪካ እንዳይንቀሳቀስ የታገደው…
By Laura Fiorio According to American historian Ann Laura Stoler, the term aphasia describes the inability to talk about one’s past, especially in the context of colonial power relations. I’m interested in the interrelation between memories and memorials, oral and…
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) pushed back on reports that its leader, Debretsion Gebremichael, abruptly left a Central Committee meeting after taking issue with comments made during the session. TPLF spokesperson Michael Asegedom dismissed the account as “false,” insisting…
A volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar region has erupted, sending thick plumes of smoke up to 14 km into the sky and across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in the Afar region about 500…
After months of intense diplomatic maneuvering, the leaders of Africa’s newly independent nations agreed to convene their first continental summit in Addis Ababa in May 1963—a gathering that would give birth to the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the forerunner…