Joanna Lumley OBE talks with Mulugeta Asrate Kassa Ethiopian embassy official

A Conversation in Three Acts By Ms. Leeshan KurateyInvestigative Journalist, Writer, and Poet Prologue: The…

ቲክቶከሩ ፍርድ ቤት ቀርቦ በፍርድ ቤት ፖሊስ የ14 ቀን የጊዜ ቀጠሮ ጠይቆበት የነበረ እና ፍርድቤቱም ፖሊስ የጠየቀውን የ14 ቀን ጊዜ ቀጠሮ ፈቅዶለት የነበረ ቢሆንም በመሃል ግን በዛሬው ዕለት የኦሮሞ አባ ገዳዎች ነን ያሉ የምሥራቅ አሩሲ ኗሪ አባ ገዳዎች መኪና ሞልተው ወደ አዲስ አበባ በመምጣት የኦሮሙማ መንግሥታቸውን በገዳ ሥርዓት መሠረት ሽምግልና ጠይቀው ከፍርድ ቤት ቀጠሮ በፊት ዛሬ ምሽት ከፖሊስ ጣቢያ አማላጅ ሆነው፣ በዚያውም የገዳ ሥርዓት ማስታወቂያ ተሠርቶለት ተጠርጣሪው ከእስር እንዲወጣ መደረጉ ነው የተሰማው።

What makes this moment particularly volatile is the religious dimension. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is not a minority faith; it is woven into the country’s historical identity, claiming over a third of the population. Allegations that the state is persecuting the Church—backed by documented cases like the 30 November clergy murders and the December Arsi massacre—strike at the heart of Ethiopia’s self-conception as a Christian civilisation. For diaspora activists, this is a potent weapon. For the government, it’s an accusation that’s harder to dismiss as Western propaganda when priests are being killed on their way home from church

The recent withdrawal of Eritrea from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development marks yet another chapter in the Horn of Africa’s chronicle of fractured regionalism. But to view this solely through the lens of Asmara’s perpetual isolationism would be to miss the forest for the trees. This departure, announced with characteristic terseness and wrapped in accusations of institutional bias, is fundamentally intertwined with Ethiopia’s escalating discourse on Red Sea access, a matter that strikes at the core of our national interests and regional stability.

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