Researchers at Ghent University have published a previously unseen map of the Horn of Africa. The map was prepared by a German atlas printing house in...
Genocides were so ubiquitous in the 20th century, that it has been referred to as the “age of genocide.” In this era which saw unprecedented mass...
Editors note: On 3 March 2022, the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa organized an event titled “Finding a pathway to peace and dialogue in Ethiopia“. Mulugeta...
By Theodros Assefa Teklu (Ph.D.) The war waged by Ethiopia against Tigray exemplifies how religion legitimizes a retributive genocide. By retributive genocide, I mean the intentional...
AFP’s photojournalist Yasuyoshi Chiba exhibited 35 prints of original photographs in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. The largest measured over two meters wide. The exhibition titled “Arrivals”...
It is not lost on anyone that, unfortunately, the Horn of Africa is fragile and fractured as a result of highly polarized and complex inter-relationships amongst...
I am not celebrating the news of the “indefinite humanitarian truce” because I don’t see any tangible progress except a repeat of a game that has...
Genocide is a terrible phenomenon that has occurred at diverse times in human history. From the massacres of Greeks by the Roman Empire to the Jewish...
The role, or lack of, therefore, of the African Union (AU) in the ongoing brutal conflict in the very nation that hosts it is one that...
Legal frameworks for Genocide The United Nation convention in 1948 defined the term genocide as the acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in...
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