Tsegaye Birhanu

Tsegaye is studying for a Peace and Development Work Masters degree at Linnaeus University in Sweden and is a political science lecturer at Assosa University. He was born in Metekel and worked in Benishangul-Gumuz for almost a decade.

The spiraling situation in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region

The dust of the violence in Metekel has not yet settled and threatens to spread into neighboring zones, raising fears…

5 years

The murky politics behind the Metekel massacres

Problems caused by underdevelopment and governance failures are being exacerbated by expansionist ideologies and a creaking federal system.

6 years