As Ethiopia Snubs Joe Biden’s Ceasefire Call, Why is Uncle Sam Increasingly Irrelevant in Africa?
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians demonstrated in the capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday, 30 May, days after US President Joe Biden imposed economic and security sanctions on the country because of the conflict in the Tigray region. Protesters packed a…
US lawmaker who termed TPLF as ‘terrorist group’ that started Tigray crisis arrives in Addis Ababa
Last week, Senator Jim Inhofe (Republican) of Oklahoma said the United States government should not treat the federal government of Ethiopia and the insurgent TPLF group equally because the former is democratically elected while the later initiated the conflict because…
Djibouti extradites TPLF fighters to Ethiopia for trial
DJIBOUTI – Djibouti has reportedly extradited a number of Tigray People’s Liberation Front [TPLF] fighters to Ethiopia, state media Fana reports, in what could further trigger animosity between Addis Ababa and Mekele which have been at loggerheads. Since November 2020, the…