By Dawit Gelmo, ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s government has dismissed a Human Rights Watch report that says authorities illegally detained, abused, and caused the forced disappearance of thousands of ethnic Tigrayans repatriated from Saudi Arabia. Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday lashed out at the Human Rights Watch report that accuses the state of targeting ethnic Tigrayans...
November 14, 2026
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Blockade killing hospitalized children in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray, doctors say
NAIROBI — In the largest hospital in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a child wounded in an air strike bled to death after doctors ran out of gauze and intravenous fluids. A baby died because there were no fluids for dialysis. Doctors at the Ayder Referral Hospital in the regional capital Mekelle, which is under the control of...
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She was in Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet as war broke out. Now she wants to set the record straight
By Max Bearak NAIROBI — Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took a sizable risk when he chose her as the youngest minister in his cabinet: Filsan Abdi was an outspoken activist from the country’s marginalized Somali community with no government experience. She was just 28. Like so many, she was drawn by Abiy’s pledges to build...
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Tsadkan Gebre-Tensae: The Tigray general who came in from the cold
For many observers, there is little doubt that Tsadkan, whose face — round, bald, moustached — is famous in Ethiopia, is the man responsible for the advances of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group since June. Thirty years earlier in 1991, Tsadkan led the TPLF’s march on Addis Ababa, part of a coalition...
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Ethiopia’s war in uncertain phase after Abiy’s advance
By AFP Ethiopia’s military this week regained control of territory previously claimed by Tigrayan rebels, a potential validation of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s decision to join soldiers to conflict-hit areas. Yet how the government scored its wins and what they mean for an eventual outcome in the year-old war remain points of fierce debate as...
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AFRAX: XILKAS KAALIN GALAY
W/Q. Cabdiraxmaan Yuusuf, Siciid-Beegsi Maxamed, Cabdicasiis Guudcadde, Magan I. M, Saxardiid Axmed iyo Jaamac Galdegsi Arar Sida uu qabo qoraaga iyo saxafiga reer Nayjeeriya, Abubakar Aadan, “Marka (waxqabadka suugaaneed) la faafiyo ama dadweynaha loo bandhigo,” loo ma baahna in uu qoraagu “difaaco ama u qiil dayo” sababtii iyo nuxurkii uu u qoray. “Waxqabadku waa in...
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Book Review: Horizons of security State and extended family: the Somali safety net in Scandinavia by Dr. Marco Zoppi
Reviewed by Adan Makina, WardheerNewsAuthor: Marco ZoppoPublished: Rowman & Littlefield Pages: 246Publication date : August 20, 2021 Editor’s Note: The newly-published book, Horizons of security State and extended family, that was preceded by an interview whose topic was An Interview with Dr. Marco Zoppi, WardheerNews Books Review Section is delighted to share with you the...
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Fears of fraud and sham election appear to be growing with the ‘first elected MP’
Dr. Aweys Omar Mohamoud A formal dispute has been raised against the election of one of the two northern/Somaliland MPs elected in Mogadishu on Monday, 1st November 2021. The said MP is none other than Mr Mahdi Guuleed, the Deputy Prime Minister, a close associate of Mr Farmaajo, who is said to have won by...
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US warns it could sanction Ethiopia after CNN reveals airline ferried weapons during Tigray war
(CNN) The Biden administration has described a CNN report that Ethiopian Airlines shuttled weapons to Eritrea as “incredibly grave” and warned that it was prepared to impose sanctions on Ethiopia and any other parties who prolonged the conflict in Tigray. On Wednesday CNN revealed that Ethiopia’s government used its state-owned commercial carrier to move weapons to and...
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EXCLUSIVE: Eritrean and Tigrayan forces killed and raped refugees – HRW
NAIROBI, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Eritrean soldiers and Tigrayan militias raped, detained and killed Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, an international rights watchdog said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch’s report detailed attacks around two camps in Tigray, where local forces have battled the Ethiopian government and their Eritrean allies since November in...