Did South Africa send troops to Ethiopia to support Ethiopia's National Defence Forces, during the Tigray civil war? Was the conflict a playground for proxy wars? This is surprising news to me as I hadn't heard about it before.
We urge the @USEmbassyAddis to reconsider its ties with @Bank_of_Abyssinia, a financial institution that is perceived to have a partisan ethnic & political agenda, potentially contributing to conflicts that may violate the Pretoria COHA and U.S. foreign policy considerations.
An estimated 120k women and girls have been raped over the course of Tigray war. Most are without medical or psycho-social care.
The world must capitalise on truce to mobilise expertise, resources to provide urgent support to victims of sexual violence, argues The Ethiopia Cable
Inviting Abiy Ahmed, a dictator with gross human rights violations & crimes against humanity to the US on Dec.13-15, 2022. is immoral and against all US democratic values. To watch the beautiful game with him is inhumane & cruelty to to 120000 rape victims & 6000000 souls @POTUS
Biden's decision to watch the #WorldCup today with #Ethiopia's dictator & war criminal-in-chief is profoundly deplorable. Disgusting. Shameful. The White House is sending a message that the deaths of 800,000 people in #Tigray these past 2 years & counting mean absolutely nothing.
Ethiopia remains a strange country. Oromya has been even more on fire for the last weeks. Not a single official: gvt member, leader of PP Amhara & Oromo branchs, has deigned to made any statement, as if it was a non-event, & more as if to flout citizenship doesn't matter at all.
Prof #BirhanuNega's party EZEMA advocated for horizontal violence yesterday when publicly called on (Amhara) civilians in Oromia to arm& defend themselves. Ezema gets its daily details from Asmara. Normally a man in charge of kids' Education would be busy building peace.
If Fano was an Islamic militia, it would have been quickly branded "terrorist" by international powers.
The medieval barbarism by Fano of roasting humans alive or sticking heads on poles is straight out of Islamic State playbook.
Designate Fano a terrorist group now.
Amhara State leaders are said to be encouraging militant Fano to stake a claim on Walaga in Oromia, ramp up violence in a bid to force Abiy to negotiate over policy on Tigray.
Amhara State unhappy with terms of recent truce, wants to maintain control of Western Tigray (Wolkait).
How many of the 17,000 former ENDF soldiers of Tigrayan descent are alive?
Locked up and massacred (only because of their ethnicity) after serving their country for years.
Yet we’re expected to comeback & reunite after this?
How can we ever feel safe again? #TigrayGenocide
"Some were shot by their guards, others hacked to death by villagers who taunted the soldiers about their Tigrayan ethnicity, prisoners said. Bodies were dumped in a mass grave by the prison gate, according to seven witnesses."
#TigrayGenocide 💔#Ethiopia
https://t.co/hUbMqlj5PN
2nd year commemoration of Axum massacre by 🇪🇷n troops. More than 800 people were killed on the streets of the historical city Axum, 2 years ago. The int'l community knows this, but preferred silence over human rights advocacy. Tigray is still calling for justice!
@POTUS@UN@hrw
“On Nov. 4 2020, the TPLF attacked the Ethiopian Defence Forces garrison in Tigray. In response, Prime Minister Abiy ordered what was labeled “law and order action”.
Obasanjo’s view is a gross oversimplification and biased. A poor stand for a mediator https://t.co/J0svFkgC1U