Summary: Intercommunal conflict in the Somali and Oromia border regions that escalated on 4 August has led to the internal displacement…
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Category: Ethiopia
Eritrea hosts talks between Tigray rebels and Ethiopian government
Senior Ethiopian security officials have held talks in Eritrea with Ethiopian rebels. Rebels of the Tigray People’s Democratic Movement were…
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Will ethnic violence derail Ethiopia’s reforms?
Displaced people wait for water in West Guji, Ethiopia, in early August. More than a million Ethiopians have been driven…
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Pacified politics or risk of disintegration? A race against time in Ethiopia
René Lefort21 August 2018 Source: Open Democracy The dramatic changes of the last months have moved Ethiopia away from…
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Ethiopia: still not at peace as 2.6 million displaced by internal conflict
Recent conflicts reported in Gedeo (SNNPR), West Guji (Oromia) and Jigjiga city (Somali region) quickly spreading to Deghabur, Warder, Kabridahar, Gode and…
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How Eritrea and Ethiopia made peace: and what happens next
Since this was written I have learnt that talks to end the conflict had been under way for more than…
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Ethiopia instructs Eritrean opposition parties to cease activities
General Mesfin Amare, the head of Ethiopia’s Liaison Office for Eritrean Affairs, has informed Eritrean opposition parties based in Ethiopia…
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Ethiopia or Eritrea? Border community fears split
Many Irob people yearn for the era before the war when they could cross between their now artificially divided valleys….
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What peace will mean for Eritrea – Africa’s ‘North Korea’
The Conversation: July 19, 2018 1.39pm BST Author Martin Plaut Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute…
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Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Deal Offers Hope for Reform – Human Rights Watch
Eritrea Should Halt Indefinite Conscription Maria Burnett Director, East Africa and the Horn@MariaHRWAfrica Eritrea and Ethiopia resumed diplomatic and commercial…
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