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War in Ethiopia Threatens China’s Economic Penetration in Africa
War in Ethiopia Threatens China’s Economic Penetration in Africa
By Paul Antonopoulos
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-ethio ... ca/5729380
13 November 2020
Less than a year after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military operation against the country’s northern Tigray province. Ethiopia is often described as the Horn of Africa’s pillar of stability and has become a hub of Chinese infrastructural and economic expansionism into Africa – but this can all be threatened now with the descent of what appears to be a civil war.
With the world distracted by the U.S. Presidential Elections and its post-vote drama, as well as the war in Artsakh (more commonly known as Nagorno-Karabakh), Abiy alleges he launched a military operation in Tigray province on November 4 in response to an attack by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) against an Ethiopian military base that resulted in wounded soldiers and the looting of their belongings.
On Monday, the Ethiopian military reported that they were “hitting targets with precision” in Tigray province to “re-establish constitutional order.” Despite the Tigrayans making up only about 6% of the country’s population, the TPLF have dominated Ethiopian politics for decades. With the arrival of Abiy, belonging to the Oromo ethnicity, Tigrayan political domination began to recede, including through deliberate efforts by the central government.
Abiy’s decision to postpone the country’s parliamentary elections because of COVID-19 was the last frustration for the TPLF. Abiy postponed the elections because it was likely he would not be able to achieve a majority to remain in office. The TPLF argue it was an anti-democratic decision made possible by the pandemic. The TPLF decided to hold elections in Tigray province, even without authorization from the central government in Addis Ababa. Having been marginalized from power that it once held, Tigrayans used this chance to accuse the prime minister of violating democratic principles and, despite federal laws, conducted their own parliamentary elections.
Abiy came to power in 2018 as a new leader willing to undertake profound political and economic reforms in Ethiopia and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for concluding the armistice between his country and Eritrea, bringing a final conclusion to the conflict that waged between 1998 and 2000. His reforms, however, are rekindling old ethnic nationalisms and tensions between different states in this multinational republic.
According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, the Tigray region is 96% ethnically Tigrayan and is wedged between Eritrea and Sudan, as well as the Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia.
The Tigrayans accumulated considerable military experience because of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Although the TPLF defend the autonomy of different ethnic groups in Ethiopia through ethnic federalism, from the 2000s onwards the group started to be accused of exercising authoritarianism, resulting in its political power decreasing.
There is no evidence however that the TPLF are receiving international military support at the moment, as they appear to be a separatist movement. The TPLF believe this is a civil war, while the central government claims that the battle is an operation to re-establish the constitutional order. If Addis Ababa succeeds in quickly achieving constitutional order, it will certainly be a political victory.
But more crucially, Addis Ababa need to achieve peace before the war spreads as it can expose many other volatilities in the region. The Horn of Africa, made up of Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti, is considered one of the most volatile regions in the world.
The battles in Tigray could directly influences neighboring countries. Eritrea for example only became independent from Ethiopia in the 1990s, and the TPLF fought alongside the Eritrean liberation movement. Eritrea and the TPLF could rekindle their relations. Another example is that the waters of the Nile, which 86% of its flow comes from Ethiopia, is of critical importance to the survival of countries like Egypt and Sudan.
Any internal problem in Ethiopia can lead to drastic crises throughout the region.
For China, such an unravelling of instability in the region will affect their growing influence and economic expansion into Africa. Ethiopia is often described as “China in Africa” as Chinese companies are heavily investing in Ethiopia’s textile, pharmaceutical, construction and manufacturing industries – more so then anywhere else in Africa. According to the Ethiopian Investment Commission, by the end June 2020, Ethiopia approved over 1,500 investment projects from China, amounting to around $2.7 billion, accounting for 25% of the total direct investment projects in Ethiopia this year.
Having turned Ethiopia into China’s Africa hub, Chinese economic planners can take advantage of Ethiopia’s 110 million population for manufacturing and consumption as its middle class grows. But more importantly, from Ethiopia, Chinese companies can penetrate into nearby resource rich countries like Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda, and use this to springboard deeper into Africa.
Chinese investments and contracts in sub-Saharan Africa totalled $299 billion between 2005 and 2018, according to the China Investment Global Tracker. In 2018, Chinese president Xi Jinping vowed to invest a further $60 billion into African nations. However, China’s deep penetration into the economic development of Africa is tied to its hub in Ethiopia.
Although Abiy emphasizes that the operation in Tigray is not a civil war but a rapid response to re-establish constitutional order, it still threatens to unravel Ethiopia and return it to the dark days when it was simultaneously fighting a civil war along with Eritrean and Somali separatists between the 1970s and 2000. In fact, the battles in Tigray have the potential to encourage other separatist movements in Ethiopia, particularly in Afar, Gambela, Ogaden, Oromia and Sidama.
For China, such a devastating war and the potential further fracturing of the Ethiopian state would be a catastrophic blow to its Africa policy. Ethiopia was selectively chosen by China to become its main Africa hub because of its central position in Northeast Africa and for being a center of stability in an otherwise chaotic region. In fact, it was China that financed and built the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa because of its confidence in Ethiopian stability and potential.
If the TPLF’s uprising continues for long it might not only deter China’s continued economic expansion into Africa, but also threaten the very existence of the Ethiopian state if the many other separatist movements in the country become emboldened.
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This article was originally published on InfoBrics. http://infobrics.org/post/32241/
Paul Antonopoulos is an independent geopolitical analyst.
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Most foreign journalists are dumps. They did not do their research before writing the truth. they say "Eritrea and the TPLF could rekindle their relations." They are jokers to be honest!!
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.....For China, such a devastating war and the potential further fracturing of the Ethiopian state would be a catastrophic blow to its Africa policy. Ethiopia was selectively chosen by China to become its main Africa hub because of its central position in Northeast Africa and for being a center of stability in an otherwise chaotic region. In fact, it was China that financed and built the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa because of its confidence in Ethiopian stability and potential.....
[[On euronews, World Uyghur Congress, Program & Advocacy Manager ZumretErkin spoke about the recent escalation of human rights crimes in EastTurkistan & what the international community must do to stop these crimes amounting to Genocide.]]
So, China is not stranger to ethnic conflicts; if anything, CCP may give hands to p2 in handling "minority" issues such as TPLF and other terrorists. They'll continue to do business as usual. In fact a good "Ahadawi" Ethiopian government coupled with "Ahadawi" Eritrean state regional confederation shall serve them best. It is obvious Tigreans will be free from TPLF dictatorship, use Eritrea's Sea outlets to grow faster; huge market for all.
[[On euronews, World Uyghur Congress, Program & Advocacy Manager ZumretErkin spoke about the recent escalation of human rights crimes in EastTurkistan & what the international community must do to stop these crimes amounting to Genocide.]]
So, China is not stranger to ethnic conflicts; if anything, CCP may give hands to p2 in handling "minority" issues such as TPLF and other terrorists. They'll continue to do business as usual. In fact a good "Ahadawi" Ethiopian government coupled with "Ahadawi" Eritrean state regional confederation shall serve them best. It is obvious Tigreans will be free from TPLF dictatorship, use Eritrea's Sea outlets to grow faster; huge market for all.
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Black Misleaders Back Susan Rice as Top Diplomat
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black ... p-diplomat
19 Nov 2020
Susan Rice with her great “friend,” the late Ethiopian warlord Meles Zenawi
Genocide in Congo and militarization of the African continent are Susan Rice’s specialties, but Black Democrats see her as a “role model.”
Rice cultivated relations with every pro-U.S. warlord in Africa.
No one in high levels of U.S. government has been more intimately complicit in the death of more than six million Africans in the Democratic Republic of Congo than Susan Rice, the bloodstained Democratic Party political operative who is actively seeking the job of secretary of state in the incoming Biden administration. If recent history is a guide, we can expect the entirety of the Black Democratic establishment to support this uber-criminal’s elevation as a fitting reward to Black voters for putting Joe Biden in the White House – thus implicating all of Black America in the largest genocide since World War Two.
Rice is a protégé of former secretary of state Madelaine Albright, who in 1996 infamously described the sanctions-induced death of half a million Iraqi children as “worth it”
to punish the Saddam Hussein regime.
But Rice has bested her mass murderous mentor in total career body count. As President Bill Clinton’s national security advisor (1993 to 1997), senior director for African Affairs (1995 to 1997) and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997 to 2001), Rice was the point person in Washington’s massive coverup of the invasion, pillage and depopulation of Congo by the armies of U.S. client states Rwanda and Uganda. In service to the Obama administration (ambassador to the United Nations, 2009-2013, national security advisor, 2013-2017), Rice smothered a United Nations Mapping Report https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/revisi ... ater-40203 that documented Rwandan and Ugandan crimes against Congo, including potentially genocidal offenses, and protected Uganda from the International Court of Justice’s award of $10 billion in damages https://www.odi.org/blogs/4109-cost-war ... ion-uganda to the Democratic Republic Congo.
Rice was the point person in Washington’s massive coverup of the invasion, pillage and depopulation of Congo.
When the United Nation’s highest court issued its verdict in 2005, the death toll in Congo was estimated at 3 million. By 2010, with Ambassador Susan Rice at the United Nations, the uninterrupted genocide had claimed six million lives, https://www.caritas.org/2010/02/six-mil ... ongos-war/ while the looting of Congo’s vast mineral resources financed the rise of a gleaming skyline over Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, a nation that has no significant mineral deposits. Multinational corporations are the biggest beneficiaries of the ”blood” minerals; it is these conglomerates whose interests Susan Rice protects.
Today, Congolese speak of eight million dead, but nobody in the Congressional Black Caucus is listening. Half of the Black Caucus voted against a measure that would have halted President Obama’s bombing of Libya, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2011/h412 in the summer of 2011. Obama claimed that the Euro-American air war in support of mainly jihadist opponents of Muammar Gaddafi’s secular government was not subject to the War Powers Act, because no Americans had died – a totally novel definition of war in which only American bodies matter. Rice was then ambassador to the United Nations, where she successfully pressed for a “no fly zone” as a cover for NATO’s war against Libya.
Rice told reporters. https://www.politico.com/story/2011/03/ ... one-051521This resolution should send a strong message to Colonel Qadhafi and his regime that the violence must stop, the killing must stop and the people of Libya must be protected and have the opportunity to express themselves freely,
But the bulk of violence was committed by U.S.-backed “rebels” against Black Libyans and south Saharans working in the country. Tawergha, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/01/24/lib ... nt-go-home a Black Libyan town of almost 50,000 people, was utterly destroyed, its inhabitants killed, imprisoned or scattered – with not a peep of complaint from the Black American woman at the UN or the First Black President of the United States. The branded faces https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/ of Black migrant workers sold into slave markets are Rice and Obama’s Libyan legacy.
Rice successfully pressed for a ‘no fly zone’ as a cover for NATO’s war against Libya.
The unprovoked war against Libya, which removed a bulwark of African independent economic and political development, was heralded as AFRICOM’s
There would be many more, as a Black U.S. administration methodically occupied the continent, from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans.first major combat operation https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/n ... nd-africa/ on the African continent.
Rice cultivated relations with every pro-U.S. warlord in Africa. She was especially close https://ecadforum.com/2012/11/02/traito ... -rice/amp/ to Meles Zenawi, the deceased former leader of the dictatorial Ethiopian regime that invaded Somalia with the full support of U.S. air, ground and sea power in December of 2006, ousting a moderate Islamic Courts government that had brought a brief period of peace to the country. The Somali war, now effectively run by the CIA, has engulfed the Horn of Africa – another bloody feather in Susan Rice’s cap.
When Rice was a candidate for secretary of state under President Obama in 2012, the entirety of the Black Misleadership Class circled their wagons around her, to counter Republican claims that Rice was to blame for the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya by U.S.-backed jihadists. Ignoring Rice’s and Obama’s crimes against Africans, Black American politicos rallied to Rice’s defense https://www.petition2congress.com/ctas/ ... sador-rice as a
whoa role model to all women
Twelve female members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including anti-war icon Barbara Lee, offered Rice their sisterly support.represents a rich and important legacy of strong women leaders in foreign policy.
said DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.We will not allow a brilliant public servant’s record to be mugged to cut off her consideration to be secretary of state,
The Black Misleadership Class circled their wagons around her.
None of Rice’s Black boosters gave a thought to her culpability in the ongoing terror in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a 2011 study https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/worl ... congo.html estimated that
(See Black Agenda Report, “The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice’s Boosters,” Dec 5, 2012. https://blackagendareport.com/content/s ... k-boosters)nearly two million women have been raped…with women victimized at a rate of nearly one every minute.
Rice’s bid for the top State Department job was frustrated in 2012, but she’s once again shamelessly campaigning https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/2 ... nse-400055 for the office, reportedly with the backing of Obama. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama- ... y-of-state
The Black Misleadership Class – eternally full of themselves – puts forth the worst possible image of Black America to the rest of the world, with not a iota of embarrassment. Having “arrived” at positions of influence in the belly of the beast, they strut about like any other variety of “ugly Americans” who want nothing more than to be full citizens of empire – humanity, including Africa, be damned.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at [email protected]
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And this is supposed to be a 'think tank', where they take their time to analize issues thoroughly. Especially when it comes to Eritrea, they're sorely uninformed/amateurish; if not outright misleading.
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Brother Zmeselo, that has been the problem of the so-called "Black leaders"! One wonders what have they done to their black constituents, except fattening their black àss with taxpayers' money. Anyways, this [deleted] has a fat chance of getting approved by the US Congress unless President-elect Biden appoints her a position that does not require the approval of Congress.
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A US resident based in Tigray (TPLF cadre), accusing the USA of involvement in Tigray’s law enforcement operations without any evidence.
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I hope so, brother Temt. It's the Senate that has to approve her tho (not the Congress) & this year, it's a Republicans majority senate. So I hope, the Republicans put a stop to it. All this, with the premise that Biden will become President. Trump, is still contesting the election results.Temt wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 21:50Brother Zmeselo, that has been the problem of the so-called "Black leaders"! One wonders what have they done to their black constituents, except fattening their black àss with taxpayers' money. Anyways, this [deleted] has a fat chance of getting approved by the US Congress unless President-elect Biden appoints her a position that does not require the approval of Congress.
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Z,Zmeselo wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 21:11
Black Misleaders Back Susan Rice as Top Diplomat
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black ... p-diplomat
19 Nov 2020
Susan Rice with her great “friend,” the late Ethiopian warlord Meles Zenawi
As the following article shows, even the diehard Herman Cohen made some adjustment in his thinking however, he still stands against Eritrean government policy of non ethnic based system while continuing to push the evil "ethnic federation" on us.
I have no doubt Susan will do better because she has Black Nationalist background; will stand on the side of Ethiopian Unity as usual.
Dr. Susan shall do some adjustment in working with Africa; her past experience with Eritrea/Ethiopia & her siding with Meles/Ethiopia then will help her in looking at the present situation some what the same way. The situation requires the same policy she had then except Abiy is in the place of Meles who happen to be a friend of Isu/Eritrea. Surprise! Surprise!
borkena
November 17, 2020
Days after propagating about the “battle-hardened” strength of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) Mr. Herman Cohen, Former Ambassador, Asst. Secretary of State, is now saying that TPLF is losing the war.
In a Twitter message on Tuesday, he said “In spite of the TPLF’s military strength, the Ethiopian government is now marching on Mekelle. If Abiy gains control of Tigray, it would mark a return to strong central rule in #Ethiopia, as it existed while the TPLF was in power for 29 years.”
Yet he went on to recommend perpetuation of TPLF devised ethnic-based federation in Ethiopia.
“Best solution for #Ethiopia is a truly decentralized federal system, in which Ethiopia remains unified but each ethnic nation has the self-determination they desire. If Abiy wins militarily, international community should still press for this outcome through political dialogue,” he said.
Mr. Cohen was a key man at the 1991 London conference which was called to broker peace between three rebel groups then (one of them was Oromo Liberation Front and is still a rebel group operating from within Ethiopia) and Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam’s government which collapsed in May 1991.
He tends to have a critical view of Abiy Ahmed’s administration. In a Twitter message on Monday, he remarked Abiy “is determined to bring all of “Ethiopia under his authoritarian control.”
Many Ethiopians tend to see Mr. Cohen as a Godfather of the TPLF administration in Ethiopia. Mr., Cohen recently published a book entitled “US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik, is now available.”
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Cohen has gone senile
& Susan is a genocidaire, black or not! Have you even read the article I posted, before scribbling your nonsense? Damn! You're dùmber, than a bag of hammers!!!
& Susan is a genocidaire, black or not! Have you even read the article I posted, before scribbling your nonsense? Damn! You're dùmber, than a bag of hammers!!!
Dawi wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 22:07Z,Zmeselo wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 21:11
Black Misleaders Back Susan Rice as Top Diplomat
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black ... p-diplomat
19 Nov 2020
Susan Rice with her great “friend,” the late Ethiopian warlord Meles Zenawi
As the following article shows, even the diehard Herman Cohen made some adjustment in his thinking however, he still stands against Eritrean government policy of non ethnic based system while continuing to push the evil "ethnic federation" on us.
I have no doubt Susan will do better because she has Black Nationalist background; will stand on the side of Ethiopian Unity as usual.
Dr. Susan shall do some adjustment in working with Africa; her past experience with Eritrea/Ethiopia & her siding with Meles/Ethiopia then will help her in looking at the present situation some what the same way. The situation requires the same policy she had then except Abiy is in the place of Meles who happen to be a friend of Isu/Eritrea. Surprise! Surprise!
borkena
November 17, 2020
Days after propagating about the “battle-hardened” strength of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) Mr. Herman Cohen, Former Ambassador, Asst. Secretary of State, is now saying that TPLF is losing the war.
In a Twitter message on Tuesday, he said “In spite of the TPLF’s military strength, the Ethiopian government is now marching on Mekelle. If Abiy gains control of Tigray, it would mark a return to strong central rule in #Ethiopia, as it existed while the TPLF was in power for 29 years.”
Yet he went on to recommend perpetuation of TPLF devised ethnic-based federation in Ethiopia.
“Best solution for #Ethiopia is a truly decentralized federal system, in which Ethiopia remains unified but each ethnic nation has the self-determination they desire. If Abiy wins militarily, international community should still press for this outcome through political dialogue,” he said.
Mr. Cohen was a key man at the 1991 London conference which was called to broker peace between three rebel groups then (one of them was Oromo Liberation Front and is still a rebel group operating from within Ethiopia) and Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam’s government which collapsed in May 1991.
He tends to have a critical view of Abiy Ahmed’s administration. In a Twitter message on Monday, he remarked Abiy “is determined to bring all of “Ethiopia under his authoritarian control.”
Many Ethiopians tend to see Mr. Cohen as a Godfather of the TPLF administration in Ethiopia. Mr., Cohen recently published a book entitled “US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik, is now available.”
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Yes, but here the catch. Gone are the days when the crime-ridden Weyane thugs were in power. Now that the Prosperity Party on the helm, any political flirtation she might attempt has to be with Prime Minister Abey and/or his comrades. Thus, it is highly unlikely that she would find ears to her devilish design against Eritrea and Ethiopia. Not anymore, assuming she gets the unlikely confirmation by the Senate, as you rightly corrected me.Zmeselo wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 22:03I hope so, brother Temt. It's the Senate that has to approve her tho (not the Congress) & this year, it's a Republicans majority senate. So I hope, the Republicans put a stop to it. All this, with the premise that Biden will become President. Trump, is still contesting the election results.Temt wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 21:50Brother Zmeselo, that has been the problem of the so-called "Black leaders"! One wonders what have they done to their black constituents, except fattening their black àss with taxpayers' money. Anyways, this [deleted] has a fat chance of getting approved by the US Congress unless President-elect Biden appoints her a position that does not require the approval of Congress.
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Yap! The weyane, shot themselves in the head. They should've waited a few months, for the transition to Biden to happen. Maybe then, they'd have had a chance. A huge, maybe! Now, it's too late!Temt wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 22:47Yes, but here the catch. Gone are the days when the crime-ridden Weyane thugs were in power. Now that the Prosperity Party on the helm, any political flirtation she might attempt has to be with Prime Minister Abey and/or his comrades. Thus, it is highly unlikely that she would find ears to her devilish design against Eritrea and Ethiopia. Not anymore, assuming she gets the unlikely confirmation by the Senate, as you rightly corrected me.Zmeselo wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 22:03I hope so, brother Temt. It's the Senate that has to approve her tho (not the Congress) & this year, it's a Republicans majority senate. So I hope, the Republicans put a stop to it. All this, with the premise that Biden will become President. Trump, is still contesting the election results.Temt wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 21:50Brother Zmeselo, that has been the problem of the so-called "Black leaders"! One wonders what have they done to their black constituents, except fattening their black àss with taxpayers' money. Anyways, this [deleted] has a fat chance of getting approved by the US Congress unless President-elect Biden appoints her a position that does not require the approval of Congress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ ... s%20Senate.The secretary of state is nominated by the president of the United States and, following a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is confirmed by the United States Senate.
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Ethiopian troops closing in on Tigray capital of Mekelle
By: CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/18/afri ... index.html
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
After the fall of Shire and Axum towns to government forces, Ethiopia’s prime minister said that his army is advancing on the Tigray regional capital Mekelle. TPLF rebel leader vows to keep fighting.
This image, made from undated handout video released by the state-owned Ethiopian News Agency on November 16, 2020, shows Ethiopian military in an armored personnel carrier near the border of the Tigray and Amhara regions of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian federal troops are closing in on Tigray’s capital of Mekelle, Redwan Hussein, the government spokesperson for the state of emergency task force, told CNN on Wednesday.
As the fighting between Ethiopian and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) soldiers rages in the region for a second week, Redwan said that national defense forces have now taken control of Shire, northwest of Mekelle, and Alamata, south of the city.
the spokesman said.They are closing in but it will take about 100-200 km from several directions,
The Ethiopian government says TPLF forces destroyed four bridges on the road to Mekelle to stop national forces from advancing.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military offensive in the restive Tigray region on November 4 after accusing its ruling party, the TPLF, of attacking a federal army base in the northern region, which borders Eritrea and Sudan.
After announcing that it was “at war” with the TPLF, the federal army has since stepped up its military offensive, carrying out air strikes as part of Prime Minister and Nobel laureate Abiy’s “law enforcement operation,” which has led to clashes across the area.
Airstrikes near Mekelle are targeting military installations and no civilians have been killed,
said Redwan.as far as we know,
He accused TPLF forces of sheltering military equipment in schools, mosques and churches.
He provided no evidence to support the claim and CNN has been unable to able to verify due to a blackout on communications in the region.
Vow to fight on
Leaders in Tigray are refusing to surrender in the face of the alleged gains by the Ethiopian military.
In a statement posted by the TPLF on Facebook Wednesday, Tigrayan leaders vowed that
as Abiy said that the deadline for them to surrender had expired.the people of Tigray will never kneel down to actions of aggressors,
the statement read, claimingTigray is now a hell to its enemies,
on the battlegrounds, directly contradicting the government claims.remarkable victories
The Tigrayan leaders also accused federal forces of killing innocent civilians while targeting churches and homes.
The government has denied targeting civilians and CNN has not been able to verify claims from either parties due to the communications blackout.
Hundreds of thousands of people in western Tigray have been displaced while internet, electricity and banking services continue to be shut down, the statement said. It added that since the fighting began, Tigray forces have managed to capture enemy tanks and heavy artillery.
the statement concluded.Tigray will be the graveyard of dictators and aggressors and not their playground,
In response, Billene Seyoum, the Ethiopian government spokesperson, told CNN that Ethiopia’s parliament had disbanded the government in Tigray, so they couldn’t respond.
she said.We cannot respond to statements on a Facebook page of an entity that does not exist,
A humanitarian crisis
The United Nations is warning that delivery of humanitarian supplies into the region “remains impossible.”
said its latest humanitarian report.The protection of populations impacted by the conflict remains an overarching humanitarian concern,
For its part, the Ethiopian government has sent missions into Amhara and Tigray to identify safe corridors for humanitarian access, said Redwan.
More than 30,000 Ethiopian refugees have crossed into neighboring Sudan to escape the conflict, according to the UN.
George Readings, lead crisis analyst at the International Rescue Committee, told CNN.The situation is escalating and thousands of people are internally displaced, without access to basic food and necessities,
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said more than 1,000 people have contacted its hotline and visited its offices in Mekelle and Addis Ababa seeking help for their families.The clock is ticking and we envisage internal displacement to become even worse in the coming weeks.
said Katia Sorin, ICRC’s head of delegation in Addis Ababa, in a statement on Wednesday.As fighting continues, we are seeing a devastating humanitarian crisis unfold, not just within Ethiopia but across its borders,
Thousands are crossing into Sudan seeking safety, and an untold number are displaced from their homes inside Ethiopia.
Ethiopian refugees fleeing fighting in Tigray province line up to receive supplies at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province, on November 16.
The humanitarian organization, based in Geneva, has provided hospital beds, mattresses, mats and blankets to health facilities. The Gonder Teaching Hospital in northern Ethiopia has been receiving large numbers of critically injured patients while also dealing with Covid-19 patients, the ICRC said.
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive Squad in Congress, sent a letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday condemning the social media company’s role in the ongoing violence in Ethiopia.
she wrote.Sometimes genocidal hate speech that is being propagated in many languages by many actors, both inside Ethiopia and abroad, has found a viral audience on your platform, and has almost certainly contributed directly to the massacres of civilians based on their ethnicities,
She echoed the words of the UN by adding that Ethiopia has
a very real chance of collapsing into one of the worst human rights and humanitarian crises in the world.
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The waiting game was such that the Woyane leaders panicked. They lost their cool. That is why they gambled and took a huge risk in carrying out what they termed as an Israel-style pre-emptive measures. Timing was not in their minds because it was already in the hands of the other side.
ብኻልእ ኣዘራርባ ከይመጹና ዝብል ስግኣት ብቐጻልነት ስለ ዝነበሮም ንሳቶም ቀዳምነት ዝሃቡሉ ጉዳይ - ዕድልና ኢሎም - ድልውነት እዩ ኔሩ ። ናይ ግዜ ምውሳን ጉዳይ ( ታይሚንግ ) ካብ ኢዶም ወጻኢ ከም ዝኾነ ጽቡቕ ጌሩ ተረዲእዎም ዝነበረ እዩ ዝመስል ። ከም ዝርእዮ እቲ ፍርሖም እዚ እዩ ኔሩ ፥ ተበግሶ ኣብ ኢዶም ስለ ዘሎ ዳሕራይ ክመጹኡ እዮም እንዳ በልና እቲ ዳሕራይ ሕጂ እንተ ኾነ ኸ ? ኣብ ሳንድዊች - ብላዕሊ ሰሜን ሃይል ብታሕቲ ደቡብ ሃይል - ኮፍ ኢልካ ምጽባይ የዋጽኣና ድዩ ?
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እሞ ኣንታ ለባም ሓውና፡ ኤርትራ ዘይትረኽቦ ዘይብላ፡ "ኤርትራ ከይትወረና ዶብ ክንሕሉ" ተባሂሉ ን፳ ዓመታት ዝሓለወካ፡ ኣብ ማዕጺድ ግራውትኻ ኮነ፡ ካብ ባልዕ ኣንበጣ ዝተኻላኸለልካ ሃገራዊ ሰራዊት፡ "ምዓስ እዩ ትኽስ ዝብል" ኢልካ ብተንኰል ክትሓርዶስ፡ ፈታዊኻ ዘይኮነስ፡ ጸላኢኻ'ኳ ነይውዕሎ!Abe Abraham wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 00:30The waiting game was such that the Woyane leaders panicked. They lost their cool. That is why they gambled and took a huge risk in carrying out what they termed as an Israel-style pre-emptive measures. Timing was not in their minds because it was already in the hands of the other side.
ብኻልእ ኣዘራርባ ከይመጹና ዝብል ስግኣት ብቐጻልነት ስለ ዝነበሮም ንሳቶም ቀዳምነት ዝሃቡሉ ጉዳይ - ዕድልና ኢሎም - ድልውነት እዩ ኔሩ ። ናይ ግዜ ምውሳን ጉዳይ ( ታይሚንግ ) ካብ ኢዶም ወጻኢ ከም ዝኾነ ጽቡቕ ጌሩ ተረዲእዎም ዝነበረ እዩ ዝመስል ። ከም ዝርእዮ እቲ ፍርሖም እዚ እዩ ኔሩ ፥ ተበግሶ ኣብ ኢዶም ስለ ዘሎ ዳሕራይ ክመጹኡ እዮም እንዳ በልና እቲ ዳሕራይ ሕጂ እንተ ኾነ ኸ ? ኣብ ሳንድዊች - ብላዕሊ ሰሜን ሃይል ብታሕቲ ደቡብ ሃይል - ኮፍ ኢልካ ምጽባይ የዋጽኣና ድዩ ?
ንሕና ንፈልጥ፡ ኣሽንኳይ ዝደቀሰ፡ ኣብ ውግእ ዝተማረኸ ወዲ ሰብ፡ ክሕረድን ክርሸንን ኣይግባእን። ህዝባዊ ግንባር፡ ንምሩኻቱ፡ ካብታ ዝነበረቶ፡ ክኣልዮምን ከቋድሶምን ደኣ'ምበር ኣሽንኳይ ብድቁሶም፡ ብጠጠዎም'ውን ቀቲልዎም ኣይፈልጥን። እንተ እዞም ኣረመናውያን ወየንቲ ግን፡ ኣምላኽ ጥራይ ዘይኮነስ፡ ሰብ'ውን ዘይፈትዎ ግዕዘይ ተግባር ፈጺሞም። ፎእ! ሕማቓት ፍጥረት።
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ሰራዊት ምክልኻል ፌዴራላዊ መንግስቲ ኢትዮጵያ፣ ናብ መቐለ ንዝወስዳ ሓሙሽተ መንገድታት ተቖጻጺሩ ዓወት ኣብ ልዕሊ ዓወት እንዳመዝገበ ብቕልጡፍ ናህሪ ይግስግስ ኣሎ። ብክቱር ጥምየትን ድኻምን ዝተሰነፈ፣ ምስ ኣዘዝቱ ርክባት ዝተበትኮ መሊሻን ፍሉይ ሓይሊ ትግራይን ግዳይ ምምራኽን ሞትን ይኸውን ኣሎ። እቲ ዝተረፈ ድማ ጭራኡ ደጉሉ እግረይ ኣውጽእኒ ብምባል ፋሕ ጭንግራሕ ኢሉ ተበታቲኑ ይሃድም ኣሎ።
በዚ መሰረት ድማ፣ መቐለ 360° ኣብ ፍጹም ከበባ ኣትያ ትርከብ ኣላ። መራሕቲ ጃንዳ ትግራይ ድማ ኣብ'ዚ ቀረባ መዓልታት ገሊኦም ካቴና ኣብ ኢዶም ኣትዩ፣ ገሊኦም ድማ ሞይቶምን ተወጊኦምን ኣብ ቴሌቭዥን ክንርእዮም ኢና።
ወያኔ ዝብሃል ውድብ ሸፋቱ ድማ ናብ ናይ ርስሓት ባጎኒ ንሓንሳብን ንሓዋሩን ክትድርበ እያ።
ኩሉ ንምርኣይ፣ ምቕናይ ጥራይ!
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There is abundance of goodwill, between Eritrea and Ethiopia leaders
(Courtesy of Seyoum Teshome)
ዶ/ር አብይ
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A leaked email reveals William Davison from "Crisis Group" was used in the dissemination of the "Eritrea is involved in Tigray conflict" allegation to Addis based foreign journalists, on behalf of the 'Tigray Friendship Office'.
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ደብረጼን፡ ኣብ ናይ ሎሚ መግለጺኡ፡፡
• ብሽረን ራያን፡ ሓፊስ ጽፍዒት ከምዝወሰደ
• ሰራዊት ኢትዮጵያ: ብኩሉ መኣዝናት ንመቐለ ይግስግስ ምህላዉ፡፡ ያዉ ንስዕር ኣለና ከኣ ይበሃለለይ!
• ካብ ዓሰብ ተበጊሰን፡ ሒዝናዮ ኣለና ዝበልናዮ ኣጽዋራት (ሚሳይል፡ ሮኬት) ድሮናት-ሰብ ኣልቦ ነፈርቲ፡ ብልዑል ቴክኖሎጂ ተደጊፈን ኣለሊየን፡ ፈሊየን ከም ዘዕነዉኦ
• ኮታ ብኽያትን፡ ስቕ ኢልካ ኮነኔን ኢዩ
ንሱ ዘይገለጾ ግን፡ ንመቐለ ክሃድሙ ደድሕሪኦም ሰራዊት ኢትዮጵያ ከየርክብዎም፡ ዓበይቲ ቢንቶታት እንዳፍረስዎ ይኸዱ ምህላዎም ኢዩ።
ብድሕረይ ሳዕሪ ኣይብቆላ'ዩ፡፡
ኢድካ ልዓቐብ!!!
(c/o NationalEr Interest)
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And now, to the tragically funny part:
Djibouti - Ismaïl Omar Guelleh:
Bye weyane! We had fun, while it lasted!
https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1076012/po ... lethiopie/
ሰራዊት ምክልኻል ፌዴራላዊ መንግስቲ ኢትዮጵያ፣ ናብ መቐለ ንዝወስዳ ሓሙሽተ መንገድታት ተቖጻጺሩ ዓወት ኣብ ልዕሊ ዓወት እንዳመዝገበ ብቕልጡፍ ናህሪ ይግስግስ ኣሎ። ብክቱር ጥምየትን ድኻምን ዝተሰነፈ፣ ምስ ኣዘዝቱ ርክባት ዝተበትኮ መሊሻን ፍሉይ ሓይሊ ትግራይን ግዳይ ምምራኽን ሞትን ይኸውን ኣሎ። እቲ ዝተረፈ ድማ ጭራኡ ደጉሉ እግረይ ኣውጽእኒ ብምባል ፋሕ ጭንግራሕ ኢሉ ተበታቲኑ ይሃድም ኣሎ።
በዚ መሰረት ድማ፣ መቐለ 360° ኣብ ፍጹም ከበባ ኣትያ ትርከብ ኣላ። መራሕቲ ጃንዳ ትግራይ ድማ ኣብ'ዚ ቀረባ መዓልታት ገሊኦም ካቴና ኣብ ኢዶም ኣትዩ፣ ገሊኦም ድማ ሞይቶምን ተወጊኦምን ኣብ ቴሌቭዥን ክንርእዮም ኢና።
ወያኔ ዝብሃል ውድብ ሸፋቱ ድማ ናብ ናይ ርስሓት ባጎኒ ንሓንሳብን ንሓዋሩን ክትድርበ እያ።
ኩሉ ንምርኣይ፣ ምቕናይ ጥራይ!
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There is abundance of goodwill, between Eritrea and Ethiopia leaders
(Courtesy of Seyoum Teshome)
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ብሎ ለኤርትራ ህዝብና መንግስት ጥብቅና የቆመበት ምክንያት የሚገባህ: አሁን ላይ የኤርትራ መንግስት የኢትዮጵያን ህዝብና መንግስት ወክሎ በወያኔና የህዳሴው ግድብ ዙሪያ ከግብፅ መንግስት ጋር መነጋገሩን ስትሰማ ነው። ይሄ ደግሞ: የዶ/ር አብይና የኢሱ Smart Diplomacy ይባላል።በኤርትራ ላይ የተጣለውን ማዕቀብ ለማስነሳት: እኔ እንደ አምባሳደራችሁ ቁጠሩኝ
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EXPOSED
A leaked email reveals William Davison from "Crisis Group" was used in the dissemination of the "Eritrea is involved in Tigray conflict" allegation to Addis based foreign journalists, on behalf of the 'Tigray Friendship Office'.
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ደብረጼን፡ ኣብ ናይ ሎሚ መግለጺኡ፡፡
• ብሽረን ራያን፡ ሓፊስ ጽፍዒት ከምዝወሰደ
• ሰራዊት ኢትዮጵያ: ብኩሉ መኣዝናት ንመቐለ ይግስግስ ምህላዉ፡፡ ያዉ ንስዕር ኣለና ከኣ ይበሃለለይ!
• ካብ ዓሰብ ተበጊሰን፡ ሒዝናዮ ኣለና ዝበልናዮ ኣጽዋራት (ሚሳይል፡ ሮኬት) ድሮናት-ሰብ ኣልቦ ነፈርቲ፡ ብልዑል ቴክኖሎጂ ተደጊፈን ኣለሊየን፡ ፈሊየን ከም ዘዕነዉኦ
• ኮታ ብኽያትን፡ ስቕ ኢልካ ኮነኔን ኢዩ
ንሱ ዘይገለጾ ግን፡ ንመቐለ ክሃድሙ ደድሕሪኦም ሰራዊት ኢትዮጵያ ከየርክብዎም፡ ዓበይቲ ቢንቶታት እንዳፍረስዎ ይኸዱ ምህላዎም ኢዩ።
ብድሕረይ ሳዕሪ ኣይብቆላ'ዩ፡፡
ኢድካ ልዓቐብ!!!
(c/o NationalEr Interest)
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And now, to the tragically funny part:
Djibouti - Ismaïl Omar Guelleh:
Abiy Ahmed had no other choice but to punish those who want to break Ethiopia
Bye weyane! We had fun, while it lasted!
https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1076012/po ... lethiopie/