Tigray conflict

The UN is failing its Tigrayan peacekeeping troops

There has been little to no action taken to address the Ethiopian government’s ethnically-based expulsion and arrest of Tigrayan peacekeepers.

5 years

A statement of concern on the joint investigation of OHCHR and EHRC

Given gaps in approach and methodology, the joint OHCHR and EHRC investigations may not give an accurate picture of rights…

5 years

Abiy deserves our respect, not calls for resignation

A theologian’s criticisms of the Prime Minister are disingenuous and based on invalid reasoning.

5 years

U.S. policy on Ethiopia’s civil war is not driven by some nefarious plot

Conspiracy theories claiming that the United States is behind a devious stratagem against Ethiopia distract from credible accusations of human…

5 years

Playing for keeps: The struggle over political finance in Ethiopia’s transition

The transition ongoing in Ethiopia since 2018 has reconfigured the country's political finance dynamics.

5 years

The divisions within the UN Security Council will harm Ethiopia

But the African and Caribbean members of the Council offer sensible recommendations to end the conflict.

5 years

TPLF–OLA alliance is a prelude to Tigray’s secession

Having closed the door to constitutional secession, Tigrayan nationalists need a fellow separatist group to achieve independence, and so mirror…

5 years

An open call by African intellectuals for urgent action on Ethiopia

Concerned African intellectuals around the world call for a political, negotiated solution to the Ethiopian civil war.

5 years

Dear mother, hope is all we have in Ethiopia’s Tigray war

In the form of two letters to his mother who lives outside Tigray, a resident of the region analyzes the…

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