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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Excellent from Claire Wilmot on the 'Gold Rush' in Tigray, connections to the war economy and effects on civilians www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Complements well and expands our understanding from a couple of recent analyses: 1/3

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Claire Wilmot · Gold Rush

Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war...

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Miriam Driessen @driessenmiriam.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I’m excited to share some professional news: my new book is coming out this February! It will be published open access with University of California Press. www.ucpress.edu/books/immuni... A big thank-you to all of you who made this project possible. @ucpress.bsky.social

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Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I guest wrote this week's War Room, our defence newsetter, on the lessons for the Horn of Africa from Europe, 1914 👇 view.e.economist.com?qs=df4e468c9...

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Jeune Afrique @jeuneafrique.com · 01/12/2025

La méthode bulldozer de la maire d’Addis Abeba, Adanech Abiebie, pour moderniser la capitale éthiopienne

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La méthode bulldozer de la maire d’Addis Abeba, Adanech Abiebie, pour moderniser la capitale éthiopienne

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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Inside Ethiopia’s Fano Insurgency Once allies of the federal government, the #Fano played a central role in the #Tigray war. However, the Pretoria Agreement has reshuffled the deck: former allies are now enemies, with the #Amhara militiamen fighting the ENDF. 1/ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Inside Ethiopia’s Fano insurgency – photo essay

As Ethiopia teeters on the brink of renewed conflict, this photographic report of the Fano, a local nationalist militia already fighting the government across the remote highlands, offers a glimpse in...

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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🥳 Out now: The 21st Africa Yearbook @degruyterbrill.bsky.social With contributions by ABI director & AYB editor @mehler.bsky.social , Benedikt Kamski, @jowedekind.bsky.social, and ABI associate Erik Plänitz. ➡️ brill.com/display/titl...

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🆕Oliver Bakewell explores how Ethiopians & Eritreans in #Nairobi, #Khartoum & #AddisAbaba form diasporic ties shaped by local political & economic conditions, focusing on improving their lives rather than driving socio-political change. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

NEW REPORT | MINOR DEMARCATIONS MICRO-DAMS—MAJOR DRAMA? @jowedekind.bsky.social and Kedir Jamal examine how admin changes, micro-dams and regional rivalries in the Oromia–Somali borderlands risk reigniting conflict and unsettling fragile peace. Read more: bit.ly/4mm7WtI #Ethiopia

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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Whether or not Tigray’s negotiators could have secured a better deal, the main sticking point now driving the TPLF apart is the failure to return home nearly one million displaced people – a key part of the peace deal.

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A power struggle in Tigray risks Ethiopia’s peace deal

As Tigray’s political leaders squabble, progress has stalled on key points of the peace agreement, including the return of a million displaced people.

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ECFR Africa @ecfrafrica.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

With no incentive to practice restraint, drone atrocities across Africa are becoming increasingly frequent, causing friction with Western partners. In Ethiopia, this has paved the way for Turkey and Russia to expand their influence. @zekuzelalem.bsky.social @ecfr.eu 📃👉

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Deadly skies: Drone warfare in Ethiopia and the future of conflict in Africa

Drone warfare is increasing in Ethiopia and across Africa. These foreign-supplied weapons risk prolonging wars and can help drive governments further away from the West…

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Peter Yeung @peter-yeung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My report for @aljazeera.com from Awra Amba, a utopian and pacifist community in the central highlands of Ethiopia. They have won awards for their peacemaking and conflict resolution - but they have been caught in the crossfire of Ethiopia's latest civil war. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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The antiwar community caught in the crossfire of Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict

For two years, Awra Amba has been caught up in a war raging between Fano fighters and Ethiopian government soldiers.

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Clingendael Institute @clingendael.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

New Alert 📰Tensions between #Ethiopia and #Eritrea are on the rise, and risk escalating into a military confrontation, with 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 for the Horn region. 📚 Read more ⤵️ clingendael.org/publication/...

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/03/2025

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 193 of The Continent. In Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, everyday life is overshadowed by the threat of returning to war.

The cover of Issue 193 of The Continent (8 March 2025) is illustrated by political cartoonist Gado. It shows a boiling cauldron labelled TPLF - the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The fire beneath it is fuelled by an arsenal of weapons and the Pretoria Accord. Emerging from the pot are the words, " Tigray waits for another war". Noxious green fumes are rising in the shape of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki who, in the last war, joined forces to fight against the Tigrayans. In this illustration they are holding guns to each others' heads and pointing fingers of blame at each other.

#Africa #Ethiopia #Tigray #TPLF #Eritrea #PretoriaAccord #TheContinent #AfricanJournalism

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 07/03/2025

Eritrea has long been subject to the whims of two more powerful nations: its neighbor Ethiopia, and the United States. Its geography made it a valuable asset, especially during the Cold War.

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Listening Devices | Ann Neumann

The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?

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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Tigray IDPs Enduring Squalid Living Conditions Acc to the Global Shelter Cluster, highlighted the dire conditions of the more than 900,000 #Tigray IDPs—18% of whom face “severe overcrowding and lack of privacy,” which “pose(s) serious health and protection risks.” 1/ reliefweb.int/report/ethio...

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Ethiopia ES/NFI Cluster Operational Presence & Response Monitoring Dashboard for Amhara, Contested and Tigray Regions (as of 31 January 2025) - Ethiopia

Infographic in English on Ethiopia about Coordination and Shelter and Non-Food Items; published on 5 Mar 2025 by IOM and Shelter Cluster

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

You can watch No Other Land and spread it far and wide bsky.app/profile/jann...

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Recent ethnic cleansing campaigns in Sudan and Ethiopia remind us Zero Discrimination Day (1 March) still marks a distant aspiration. Based on 46,269 face-to-face interviews conducted by Afrobarometer, we may be losing ground. Via @thecontinent.org

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fun trivia: Zelenskyy partly grew up in the copper mining town of Erdenet in Mongolia because his father worked for a mining company.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 24/02/2025

When Sudan’s war broke out in 2023, about 12,500 Sudanese people crossed into Ethiopia. Initially, they were sheltered in the Awlala and Kumer refugee camps. But Ethiopia was experiencing its own conflict. As the fighting intensified, refugees became easy targets.

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Nowhere to go

Sudan’s civil war forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their country. Some fled to Ethiopia – but their respite was short-lived.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Decarbonisation threatens the very structure of intl order, founded on fossil-fuelled economic growth and interdependence Can Climate action survive geopolitical fragmentation? Can it thrive on a tightrope? @picharbonnier.bsky.social interview on War Ecology greeneuropeanjournal.eu/if-you-want-...

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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Amhara Region Cracks Down on Qemant Minority The Qemant ethnic minority have been in conflict with the authorities in Amhara over land disputes. Some of their representatives are being prosecuted on terror charges and are accused of supporting Fano rebels. www.africaintelligence.com/eastern-afri...

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Ethiopia : Amhara region cracks down on Qemant minority suspected of backing rebels

The Qemant ethnic minority is in conflict with the authorities in Ethiopia's Amhara region over land disputes. Some of its representatives are being prosecuted on terror charges and are accused of

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 24/02/2025

In 2024 I spent a lot of time in Brandenburg and Sachsen, Länder that both voted >30% for the AfD Here are a few observations from that time spent there (thread is from Mastodon, bridged to Bluesky)

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

New publication via @politicalgeography.bsky.social 📜 How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible? In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations

The war in Tigray, Ethiopia, which erupted in November 2020, has been marked by widespread atrocities, including organized massacres, the systematic u…

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

One huge story from this election is that the incoming Chancellor got overexcited and said “the Left is finished” and a day later the Left became the biggest party in Berlin, and took almost 9% of the national vote. I hope that phrase haunts Merz for the rest of his career.

Merz getting overconfident and announcing the end of the Left.

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Jonah Wedekind @jowedekind.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#WahlabendHangover so: Meine Freude über das tolle Wahlergebnis von Die Linke 🚩🚀 und meine Schadenfreude über das Scheitern von FDP und BSW an der 5%-Hürde ist stark getrübt - die Schuldenbremse ist verklemmt und im Rückspiegel sieht man die 💩-Fratzen der #FCKAFD auf der Überholspur. Fight fascism!

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Nils Markwardt @fjmurau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Auch nicht ganz unwichtig: Die Zuwächse der Linkspartei sind vor allem Verschiebungen innerhalb des linken Lagers, bei denen der AfD spielen vormalige Nicht-Wähler hingegen eine erhebliche Rolle. (aus: www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/...)

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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Das gesamte Land hat Zukunftsangst, und das ist erstmal rational, weil die Zukunft wird noch dunkler, als die Gegenwart. Deshalb ist es ja so absurd, dass #Grüne und #SPD einen Harris-Style "weiter so, nur besser!"-Wahlkampf führten. Wer gewinnen will, muss Ängste politisieren!

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Stephan Anpalagan @stephananpalagan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Wer zu 39% AfD in Thüringen schweigt, aber sich lauthals über 20% Linke in Berlin aufregt, zeigt sehr schön, wes Geistes Kind er ist - und wo er politisch steht.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Berlin CDU must have some very scary internal polling. The SPD is pushing back within the govt on the massive cuts to culture and the promises to fix admin and housing have not materialized into real action. Given federal numbers the city is on track to a return to R2G but led by the Left.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This gets at the problem of how difficult to actually address the rise of the far right via govt policy and how it is much more than the cry of the forgotten man.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 23/02/2025

2020 sprach ich mit der RLS darüber, wie wir uns auf die Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung und deren Ankunft in Südafrika vorbereiten. Zeit, das wieder aus der Schublade zu holen und weiter daran zu arbeiten.

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Der @KleineMaulwurf @kleinemaulwurf.eurosky.social · 23/02/2025

Sorry, ich will eigentlich gar nicht auf der am Boden liegenden FDP rumhacken. Ich finde es nur absolut fantastisch, wenn vulgärliberale Egomännchen im Slim-Fit-Anzug mal deutlich ihre Unbeliebtheit aufgezeigt kriegen.

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So important 👇🏽 I see a lot of English-language reporting about how it could have been worse. To be clear: these election results are an enormous success for the far right, including in its heartland of Saxony where they scored 34%.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

agree this reading

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tomlavers.bsky.social @tomlavers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

New open access (free!) book on the politics of Ethiopian dam building, 'Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance', out now global.oup.com/academic/pro... @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @oupacademic.bsky.social

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 17/02/2025

Ethiopia’s government has committed itself to a transitional justice process to confront its violent past. Yet it is also currently attacking civil society groups and media freedom. TEMELSO GASHAW on where to go from here. verfassungsblog.de/ethiopia-tra...

Quote from our published article by the author Temelso Gashaw: "If the Ethiopian transitional justice process is to win the public’s trust, the government must demonstrate its political commitment by not only ending ongoing armed conflicts, but also by opening up the country’s civic and political space."

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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ethiopia Suspends TPLF Over 'Missed' General Assembly Ethiopia's election board suspended #TPLF from political activities for 3-months for failing to hold general assembly on time, warning that its registration will be canceled if corrective measures aren't taken. addisstandard.com/nebe-suspend...

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NEBE suspends TPLF for three months over 'missed' general assembly, warns of registration cancellation - Addis Standard

NEBE suspends TPLF for three months over 'missed' general assembly, warns of registration cancellation Addis Standard News -

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

NEW REPORT | DOMINANT PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS OF URBAN CONTESTATIONS IN HAWASSA @eyobbalcha.bsky.social & Robel Mulat examine how political, social & economic contestations have shaped Hawassa over decades. Read more: bit.ly/4hQeyO3 #Ethiopia

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the badass farmers of #Tigray! New data from the Meher Harvest Report shows crop production more than doubled since last year across the accessible areas of Tigray.

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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Western Envoys In Mekelle to Discuss Pretoria Peace Deal A delegation from the US, EU, UK, Italy, Germany, Denmark and France arrived in #Tigray's capital, Mekelle, to discuss “the implementation of the Pretoria peace agreement and efforts to ensure lasting peace.” addisstandard.com/us-eu-and-ot...

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US, EU, and other envoys arrive in Mekelle for talks on Pretoria Agreement, Tigray’s current situation - Addis Standard

US, EU, and other envoys arrive in Mekelle for talks on Pretoria Agreement, Tigray’s current situation Addis Standard News -

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