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[CODESRIA @CODESRIA]

NEW @CODESRIA Bulletin Online No. 5 (June 2026)
"Walter Rodney and the Unclaimed Past: Sierra Leone Historiography's Refusal of a Radical Inheritance" by Ibrahim Abdullah revisits Rodney's enduring legacy and its significance for African historiography.
🔗https://t.co/9NFYsGH1tq

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

Regional authorities in #Ethiopia's Tigray region, the TPLF, should immediately withdraw a disturbing new law that grants sweeping powers to compel military service and punish dissent, and imposes the death penalty for a range of vague offenses. New @hrw https://t.co/Yx4XZu7BF4

[Badawi @AwRobleh]

Indeed. Ethiopian government officials and the UN Refugee Agency ( @Refugees @UNHCREthiopia) have pointed to the "Makatet Initiative" as a concrete roadmap, and publicly announced its launch ( https://t.co/v3gdTB9yd0 ), even though it does not actually exist. Both the World Bank ( @WorldBankGroup ) and the European Union are supporting / associated with initiatives linked to the "Makatet Roadmap". If "Makatet" is an official national framework, where is the approved document, and why has it not been made publicly accessible to the key stakeholders, such as regional counterparts, implementing partners, refugees and host communities, and public as well?

Until the document itself is available for public review, it is difficult for stakeholders to assess its objectives, commitments, governance arrangements, implementation mechanisms, as well as accountability and transparency aspects. These are fundamental questions regarding transparency, which naturally arise when a frameworks is presented as an official national roadmap. When accountability is absent, there is no difference between State Officials and Bandits! #Qoloji #GarbaIsse #Nguenyyiel #Ethiopia @BarhamSalih @mamadou_dbalde @AissatNdiaye @AbdikerM @eu_echo @UKinEthiopia @EUinEthiopia @dervishconan @Abdirik @NeaminZeleke @amggebre @BubalAbdi @AhmedAbdiIsse1 @EliasAmare @faisalroble19 @DrATchie @DrMehari @JFCrisp @DRovera @EIshmael_ @ElmiYabeh @ay_has

[The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @TimepDC]

NEW: "The unprecedented regional war is just a few months old and much speculation has swirled about whether it will exacerbate or dampen Gulf interest, investment, and interventions in Sudan’s war."

@KholoodKhair examines what the war means for Sudan: https://t.co/Zrp5caece3

[Naomi Conteh @DecolonialEye]

Turkey is cashing in on African wars.

Ankara has flooded Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Sudan with Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci drones. These are sold with zero conditions on human rights or end use, and are now central to counter-insurgency campaigns by military juntas and Sudan’s SAF.

In exchange, Turkish companies are securing gold mines, oil concessions and political leverage. This is drones for dirt a deliberate strategy that exploits the vacuum left by France, competes with Russia, and turns African wars into a profitable business model for Ankara. The lack of serious scrutiny or condemnation is striking.

I'm tired, so so tired of all the death.

https://t.co/Yec9WP2ftT

[David Wengrow @davidwengrow]

‘Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds,’ my dialogue with the brilliant Indonesian anarchist writer Bima Satria Putra is now published in @e_flux
Grateful to Stevphen Shukaitis for making this possible.
https://t.co/SygUGGJCKa

[ProPublica @propublica]

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
https://t.co/93TnNVY03T

[Theryn @TherynDArnold]

honoured to have my piece in @HGJournal be awarded Best Contention. read it here: https://t.co/v6ywIb2iqI

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: #Ethiopia launches refugee integration strategy as #UNHCR faces over 90% funding shortfall

The strategy was unveiled yesterday during a high-level ceremony held at the #Adwa Victory Memorial in #Addis_Abeba, attended by senior government officials, representatives of international organizations, development partners, civil society groups, and refugee representatives.

Officials described the initiative as a major shift from Ethiopia’s traditional aid-dependent refugee encampment model toward a state-led development approach focused on long-term inclusion and self-reliance.

https://t.co/jLsNC3v9z5

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

In-depth Analysis: Budget of Survival: As #Ethiopia’s economy adjusts, fixed-income workers’ pay the highest price

When Ethiopia unveiled its record 2.34 trillion Birr budget for the 2025/26 fiscal year, government officials presented it as evidence of a state mobilizing resources for reform, growth, and economic recovery. On paper, the budget marks another dramatic increase in public spending, continuing a rapid expansion that has seen federal allocations grow from 562 billion Birr in 2022/23 to nearly two trillion Birr within three years.

Yet beyond the headline figures lies a different reality unfolding in households, bus stations, workplaces, and markets across the country.

https://t.co/Pq4YD6hLdw

[Abel Abate Demissie @Abele_a]

#Somalia-#Ethiopia ties in a precarious Horn: A rare window presents itself to address structural issues in the relationship.

https://t.co/1dKs4vkBPN

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization backs #UN rights expert’s #Eritrea report, calls for stronger international action

Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (#RSADO) said the report provided a "credible assessment" of Eritrea's human rights situation and highlighted what it described as systematic repression by the Eritrean government, including alleged acts of transnational repression targeting #Eritrean citizens, refugees, asylum seekers, journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists living abroad.

https://t.co/kGgPqL8jG9

[Chatham House Africa @AfricaProg]

🇪🇹 | We were delighted to welcome #Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Dr @GHessebon (@MFAEthiopia) to @ChathamHouse to discuss the government’s regional and foreign policy agenda ahead of a new governmental term.

Read his full remarks: https://t.co/RMjFWd8neb

#CHAfrica

[Getachew Temare @getachew_temare]

https://t.co/WZ389bqUJs

A brilliant and much-needed report by Claire Wilmot and Gisa Tunbridge on how gold is becoming a curse for Tigray, as it has been in many other conflict-stricken areas of Africa. The report is not merely about mining. It is about the anatomy of post-war predation.
It shows how a devastated society, still carrying the wounds of mass death, displacement, hunger, trauma, and institutional collapse, is being forced into another brutal economy: one where survival is criminalized, land is fenced, rivers are poisoned, former fighters are discarded, local communities are intimidated, and military power becomes a gatekeeper of wealth.
The most revealing part of the report is the cruelty of the transition itself. The same young people who were mobilized to fight and die for Tigray are now being pushed away from the land they mine to survive. Some are treated not as citizens with rights, but as obstacles to profit. The report even describes Tigrayan military officers turning violence against their own former soldiers amid mining conflicts, including the reported killing of a former fighter who challenged displacement from a mining site. That is not simply corruption. It is the moral decay of a militarized order.
This is how resource extraction becomes violent: first through promises of recovery, then through elite capture, then through foreign investors, smuggling corridors, environmental poisoning, intimidation, and finally the normalization of killing those who ask basic questions about ownership, livelihood, and justice.
Yet amid this bleak picture, the report also captures an encouraging truth: many former Tigrayan soldiers do not want another war. Their morale is not with a second catastrophe. They have seen enough death. They know the cost of militarized politics. Their refusal to be dragged again into elite-driven destruction is not fatigue alone; it is a form of civic wisdom.
Tigray does not need an economy built on poisoned water, displaced miners, silenced communities, and commanders competing over extraction. It needs accountable governance, civilian oversight, environmental protection, transparent resource management, and a politics that treats human life as more valuable than armed profit.
This report is urgent because it reveals that the danger facing Tigray is not only renewed war from outside. It is also the internal system that can make violence profitable, dissent punishable, and survival itself a battlefield. A deeply reported, analytically sharp, and morally necessary piece.

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

#Commentary: Gold, Guns, and Conscription: How illicit mining reshapes #Tigray’s politics, fuels youth draft evasion

Mohammedawel Hagos argues that the 2022 #Pretoria Peace Agreement has failed to stabilize Tigray, which has since fractured into competing political and military factions. At the heart of this crisis, he contends, lies “a sprawling, militarized illegal gold economy.”

Mohammedawel notes that "at the top, some army commanders and political actors have become gold barons," consolidating illicit wealth and reshaping loyalties across the region, while "Tigrayan youth increasingly turn to mining as a survival strategy"—an economic foothold that has simultaneously fueled their resistance to forced conscription.

He positions the illegal gold mining not as a peripheral concern but as the connective tissue of Tigray's broader crisis, binding together political fragmentation, armed rivalry, and youth defiance against forced conscription.

https://t.co/CUr5sMyQPi

[Kjetil Tronvoll @KjetilTronvoll]

The developments between Ethiopia and Tigray is very worrying. We can all be critical of political dispositions made by TPLF. But for prof. @cliona_raleigh, director of @ACLEDINFO to use the term «cancer» to describe TPLF machinations is unbecoming a scholar (36:30 in rec).

[Faisal @FaisalAHAli]

A more interesting stop on Cirro’s visit to Israel. He went to lay a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism.

[Mohamed Kheir Omer @mkheirom]

Not sure if @ACLEDINFO is hijacked by Abiy and his PP party of #Ethiopia with Professor Clionadh Raleigh not only highly critical of #TPLF but describing it as growing like a 'cancer', (minutes 36 TO 37), a term Abiy and his men used prior to and during the 2020 to 2022 #Tigray war.

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Walter Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.

https://t.co/XEs2wKz9lY

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.”
- Angela Davis
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