“Jesus wept.”
John 11:35
If Jesus, who is Lord, wept, then tears are not weakness.
They are a language of love, grief, and honor.
On Memorial Day, pain reminds us that some lives were too meaningful to be forgotten.
“The righteous will be remembered forever.”
Psalm 112:6
Three years ago, on May 6, Voice of Amhara journalist Gobeze Sisay was arrested in #Djibouti and transferred to #Ethiopia under unclear circumstances in a sweeping crackdown on reporting about conflict in the Amhara region. He remains behind bars on terrorism charges that carry a potential death sentence.
Gobeze is due to present his defense this month.
Gobeze’s continued detention, along with three other journalists also accused of terrorism — Genet Asmamaw, Meskerem Abera, and Dawit Begashaw — underscores the risks facing independent media in Ethiopia and the criminalization of reporting on matters of public interest.
@pressfreedom calls for Gobeze’s immediate release and for Ethiopian authorities to stop criminalizing journalism.
Read more: https://t.co/5Hjh5D3IXa
Man's Inhumanity to man. I weep for Africa 😢 😭
This is barbaric. SouthAfrica WHY?
This Xenophobia Must Stop!
Xenophobia is not patriotism. It is not protection. It is fear weaponized against people who look, and sound differently. And wherever it takes root, communities rot from the inside.
No society can call itself civilized while it normalizes humiliation.
INSANE: 🇿🇦🇪🇹 CCTV caught the moment a South African anti-immigrant activist walked into a store owned by 2 Ethiopians and shot both dead at close range.
He casually stole items from the store and left after killing them.
Ethiopia backed African liberation movements especially the African National Congress in South Africa by offering refuge, military training, and even an Ethiopian passport to Nelson Mandela during apartheid. Through the Organization of African Unity, it provided diplomatic, financial, and logistical support across the continent, helping legitimize anti-colonial struggles from South Africa 🇿🇦 to Somalia 🇸🇴 solidarity some say has since been met with hostility toward Ethiopian migrants in South Africa.
“Two Ethiopian nationals who ran a spaza shop in South Africa were gunned down by South Africans fighting other Africans”
Will killing them give them jobs & freedom.
This is insanity, sincerely
South Africa is sick
"We need to be very careful about xenophobia... We need to understand that South Africa does not have a xenophobia problem... We have a Afrophobia problem."
Political analyst Pieter Kriel says attacks on African migrants in South Africa reflect afrophobia, driven by migration and economic pressures.