Today’s situation report from Europe External Programme with Africa indicates, among many other things: Heavy shelling is continuing in many villages in Tigray.A Catholic bishop and several nuns and other…
Ethnic profiling Tigrayans living in Addis Ababa described ethnic profiling and growing harassment. Such abuse and discrimination by neigbours, strangers, and government officials could widen the rift among Ethiopia's increasingly…
Only Europe can stop Ethiopia’s slide into a regional war This commentary looks at the big picture of the war on Tigray. Unlike Abiy's claim that it is a "law…
Diredawa university has apparently called students to report in person while Tigrayan students are under communication blackout. Universities in Ethiopia have students from all regions as placement is decided by…
Information coming out of Mekelle is grim. People are afraid of talking about the details of what happened to them during the shelling of Mekelle. Some said 'what happened on…
Elderly Tigrayan refugees in Sudan long for home The UN says four percent of the over 50,000 people who have fled Tigray for Sudan are over 60 years old. "At…
Reuters reports that Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited Ethiopia briefly with an offer to broker a ceasefire in the Tigray region, a proposal Ethiopia said was unnecessary because fighting…
The following excerpt is from today's article in the New York Times. These seemingly anecdotal stories barely scratch the surface of the ethnic harassment, discrimination, abuses (including physical abuse), arbitrary…
On the 38th day since the war on Tigray started, the complete information blackout continues. The deaths of aid workers, the alarming humanitarian crisis, and the plight of Eritrean refugees…
It has been 37 days since Abiy Ahmed waged war on Tigray, inviting the Amhara militia and youth vigilantes who call themselves Fano in the south and Eritrea in the…