π¬ Exciting News! Our movie "Unholy" has been nominated for the International Black and Diversity Film Festival award in seven categories! Thanks to IBDFF for this incredible recognition and opportunity to celebrate diversity in cinema. #ααα°αα°α°ααα#α΅αα«α#UnholyMovie
In contravention to the Pretoria agreement (CoHA), the government of Abiy Ahmed has released a film (documentary?) that promotes hate and animosity against the people of Tigray. The signatories of the Pretoria agreement, mediators and the observers have the obligation to stop the broadcast and dissemination of this film per article 3(3) of the agreement.
π I couldn't hold back my tears watching this...
#Tegaru should be free to move around anywhere in #Ethiopia and interact in any manner with other #Ethiopians without some entitled brats like many of us in the diaspora dictating their lives.
The decision to withhold aid only exacerbates the suffering of those in desperate need. Aid agencies+donors must find alternative approaches to hold actors that diverted humanitarian aid accountable without further jeopardizing the lives of vulnerable communities.
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of building peace in the region. Ambassador @RolandKobia is hopefully taking the opportunity to listen to the stakeholders on the ground with a view to informing the EUβs engagement in Ethiopia in general and the region in particular.
going forward ; the return of IDPs, the need for more humanitarian aid; EU support for DDR as well as accountability for atrocities. Also raised during our discussion was EUβs roadmap for political re-engagement with Ethiopia & its role in recovery & reconstruction in the context
I had a very productive discussion with @RolandKobia, EU Representative for Ethiopia & the AU today in #Mekelle where he is in the first day of his visit to Tigray. We covered a range of topics including the status of the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement & the challenges
Tigray Human Rights Advocacy Network, a network of about 20 rights-based local CSOs in Tigray & Alliance of CSOs in Tigray, a consortium of more than 70 CSOs, called on @StateDept to recognize the #TigrayGenocide & to support critical international justice mechanisms. @SecBlinken
If AU and two parties had issued an implementation report on the Pretoria deal, we would have a clear record of the litany of unimplemented commitments. Now is the opportunity with Secretary @SecBlinken's visit to engage parties to pressure a reflection on realities on the ground
4 key common denominators at play behind the ongoing sufferings of #Tigrayans in #Tigray & outside Tigray, #Amharas & #Oromos in #Oromia are #Eritrea, money, media & political power. A linchpin of all these that needs to be taken out by any means to stop the carnage is Eritrea.
Itβs our hope and expectation that the international community play its role to support the parties to the recent peace agreement to keep their respective ends of the commitment. Congressman @BradSherman is obviously doing his part. https://t.co/9rZs1Pxs2d