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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel

@tekgw.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Environment and Development at @GlobalDevInst (Pre) Asso. Prof. of Human Geography, @NTNU. Tigrayan, I write about #TigrayGenocide and more.

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Drawing on years of research into the Tigray war and its aftermath, Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel examines the challenges facing the peace process and outlines five key priorities for preventing further escalation. Read in @uk.theconversation.com : theconversation.com/conflict-is-...
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Conflict is rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray region: 5 steps that could stop a return to full-scale war
Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In a new article via @theconversation.com, I call for a meaningful engagement and intervention to avoid a return to a full-scale war and another human rights and humanitarian catastrophe in #Tigray and broader #Ethiopia. theconversation.com/conflict-is-...
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Conflict is rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray region: 5 steps that could stop a return to full-scale war
Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.
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Oakland Institute @oaklandinstitute.org · 22/05/2026
Across Africa, health aid is being weaponized to secure mining deals & health data for US corporations. This extortion reveals that the emperor has no new clothes & must be countered by global outrage supporting African countries in standing against these exploitative bilateral health agreements!
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hello Norway? PM Modi conferred Norway’s highest honour, the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit #India #Norway #Modi www.firstpost.com/world/pm-mod...
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In connection to the ongoing unrelenting prosecution of and violence on #Tigrayans in Western #Tigray and across Ethiopia, I spoke recently with @lepoint.fr. www.lepoint.fr/afrique/ethi...
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En Éthiopie, la visite de Macron sur fond de guerre oubliée au Tigré
Alors que le président français est à Addis-Abeba, Human Rights Watch dénonce la généralisation des discriminations et des violences à l’encontre des Tigréens restés dans l’ouest de la région.
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#PODCAST | What is happening in Tigray? @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @tekgw.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) about the evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray, and (the lack of) academic freedom to publish on it. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or go here: edu.nl/qaxbb
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In a new podcast episode with the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social, my friend @annevanmourik.bsky.social and I discuss the #TigrayGenocide and the systematic assault on the Tigrayan womb — both metaphorically and literally —through rape and,
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What is happening in #Tigray? An interview with the wonderful @tekgw.bsky.social Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael from @manchester.ac.uk soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #massviolence #famine #genocide #siege #censorship
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NIOD Rewind Episode 48 - Genocide in Tigray: Assault on the Womb, Starvation and Censorship
What is happening in Tigray? In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael (University of Manchester) about the strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tig
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Rafael Mitchell @rafaelmitchell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It's my understanding that many rural schools in Tigray have now closed because they can't pay their staff. The Ethiopian government suspended the budget to Tigray back in October 2025. addisstandard.com/news-tigray-...
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Rafael Mitchell @rafaelmitchell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Study by health researchers in 2024 found that starvation was the leading cause of death in Tigray, Ethiopia after the 2022 ceasefire link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Starvation remains the leading cause of death in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, after the Pretoria deal: a call for expedited action - BMC Public Health
Background People in war-affected areas are more likely to experience excess mortality with hunger. However, information on the causes of death associated with hunger is often nonexistent. The purpose...
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Has globalisation failed? A new ARTE episode featuring GDI's Pritish Behuria has been released asking 'is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?' Watch here: www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
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42: The Answer to Almost Everything - Has Globalisation Failed? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
With wars, financial crises, and energy crises, global trade seems to be suffering. But is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?
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Nathan Oxley @nathanoxley.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"This is catastrophic."
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REPAiR Project @repairproject.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The irony: conservation involving fenced-off 'hard boundaries' can lead to shrinking space for wildlife. @tekgw.bsky.social explored findings from Kenya and Tanzania at our February event on #rangelandmyths about Mobility. #IYRP2026 #pastoralism #conservation
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/02/2026
I don't know how I missed this incredible investigative reporting by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social and Ashenafi Endale, illicit mining in Tigray-->funding for another looming war, pollution, and, surprise surprise, foreign investment from Canada + China🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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When Tigray became a ‘Wild West’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim
A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 13/02/2026
“What happens when atrocities go unnoticed, unpunished, or even tacitly accepted? Impunity does not end violence; it perpetuates it… [A]ctive war has flared up again in Tigray in 2026. This has raised the prospect of a renewed full-scale siege. This is evidenced by recent drone attacks”
The Ethiopian government and its allies employed four major tactics to create a "zone of invisibility" - a deliberate effort to obscure what was happening:
• communication shutdowns
• restrictions on journalists and humanitarian agencies
• physical blockades that limited access to information and evidence
• and narratives that reframed the Tigrayan population as legitimate targets of violence.
These measures allowed atrocities to unfold with limited external scrutiny.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How did Ethiopia get away with the mass murder of close to a million Tigrayans? In my latest piece for @theconversation.com, I examine the tactics the Ethiopian regime and its allies used to conceal the genocide in Tigray, and evade accountability. theconversation.com/how-to-get-a...
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How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world
The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Tigray crisis remains largely invisible to the world. "Factors such as race and the peripherality of the region made the Tigray conflict a blind spot in global geopolitics. But these explanations are not sufficient." In @uk.theconversation.com by @tekgw.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qvJzux
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How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world
The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026
The TESCREALists I wrote about (Goertzel), teaming up with pedophiles (Epstein), experimenting on five million Ethiopian children through "digital IDs" which they want for harvesting data to train "AI." My worlds colliding in the worst way.
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REPAiR Project @repairproject.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This month, in our #RangelandMyths series, we examine the myth that 'Mobility drives conflict and insecurity'. Read the think piece by Linda Pappagallo: repairproject.org/Blog/myth-mo... Join our online discussion on 26 February with @tekgw.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
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James Pattison @jamespattison.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Important paper on the Tigray War. Key points: Death toll likely to be larger than 800k and Ethiopia obscured the crisis, creating 'zone of invisibility' to reduce calls for international action : 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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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Horn of Africa has been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern history. @tekgw.bsky.social and Hussein Sulieman write about the devastating wars in Ethiopia and Sudan, and how these have reshaped regional dynamics. 🔗 bit.ly/4oxE5OQ
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Shifting Contours of Conflict: War and Cross-Border Migration in the Horn of Africa - Global Development Institute Blog
by Tekle Weldemichel (Lecturer in Environment and Development at GDI) and Hussein M. Sulieman (Research Fellow at GDI)  The Horn of Africa (HoA) has, in recent years, been going through one of the mos...
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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e
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Italy probes Sarajevo ‘sniper safaris’: What were they, who was involved?
According to a lawsuit, participants would be flown from Italy to Bosnia where they would pay to shoot people.
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Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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When Tigray became a ‘wild west’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim
A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere. Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...
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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time). Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War' Full details & venue address: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
Flyer for event, with image of book cover, event time & address and blurb.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Travesty lies in the fact that Abiy now appears to be using the TPLF faction’s alleged ties with Eritrea as a pretext to further isolate & besiege what remains of Tigray — despite his own open alliance with the Eri regime to turn Tigray into a wasteland tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
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Tigray as a Death World: Frantz Fanon, colonialism, and the limits of liberation struggles
Ethiopia’s relationship with its constituent peripheries and Tigray in particular can without any doubt be described as colonial—a peculiar example of internal colonialism, in the sense that it is not...
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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPRG4... Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.
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The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism
The emergence of Amhara nationalism as a central political trend in Ethiopia can be dated to 2016. It soon gained considerable audience within the Amhara region and beyond. This article analyses a ...
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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade #politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography Please share and pass on to potentially interested people. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social
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La Hulotte @nicodm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre. "Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life." by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo theconversation.com/starvation-a...
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Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege. Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
Cover of this weekend's The Continent newspaper 

"Genocide resumes in Darfur as Sudan tears apart"Screenshot of article by Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum

"Sudan's split in two is now complete."

Satellite imagery depicting destruction and possible dead included
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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com · 02/11/2025
Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂 theconversation.com/starvation-a... #Politics
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Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue, “When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.” theconversation.com/starvation-a...
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Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yesterday was an inspiring day at @ki.se , where I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a keynote speech on the role of scholarship during the genocide in Tigray and to take part in engaging panel discussions on academic freedom and democracy.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"For all intents and purposes, the United Nations has lost much of its influence, as its involvement and legitimacy have been progressively undermined." African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.” blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
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Africa: Peace and development in the age of transactional geopolitics - Global Development Institute Blog
By Teklehaymanot Weldemichel and Smith Ouma The African Union has long promoted the slogan “African solutions to African problems”. Yet recent developments across the continent suggest that this procl...
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In a new blog, my colleague Smith Ouma and I highlight that a new wave of colonialism—less overt than in the past yet equally insidious—is unfolding, one that may lock Africa into another centuries-long asymmetrical relationship with new imperial forces.
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World Peace Foundation @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act. Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
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Peace is the Prize: Why this Year’s Nobel Award Should be the Last - World Peace Foundation
Author Alex de Waal proposes that Nobel committee does not award the prize until world leaders get serious about peace.
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World Peace Foundation @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
From 2020–2022 in #Tigray, war & blockades turned hunger into a weapon, creating a man-made #famine & #genocide. The dehumanization of Tigrayans & invisibility of their experiences were their own forms of violence. Naming & recording this is vital for #accountability. Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8
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Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation
Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In a blog, Birhan & I reflect, "Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability." Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
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Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation
Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.
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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In a new article for @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social, GDI's Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the silenced story of urban hunger that has accompanied Tigray's war, famine and genocide. Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT
The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215
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 INVESTIGATION
 The Djiboutian massacre 
Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
 Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its 
border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists. 
Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of 
the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s 
tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity. 
Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters.
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On 30 January this year, a drone manned 
from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a 
funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote, 
semi-arid village near the Ethiopia
Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a 
second bomb dropped. And then a third.
 At least eight people were killed, 
including three children. Several 
others were injured. Given the village’s 
remoteness, the incident might have 
gone unreported if graphic images of 
the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian 
social media. 
A statement from the Djibouti’s 
defence ministry said the drone struck 
rebel fighters from the Front for the 
 Restoration of Unity and Democracy 
(Frud), a Djiboutian political party with 
a military wing. It has been fighting for 
Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s. 
The Afar are a community split by the 
colonial border separating Ethiopia, 
Djibouti, and Eritrea. 
“Eight terrorists were neutralised on 
site,” said a Djibouti military statement. 
“Unfortunately, collateral damage 
among Djiboutian civilians in the area 
has been documented.” 
International media, including Voice 
of America, Agence France Presse, and 
Radio France Internationale reported 
this version of events.
 Now, new findings from an open
In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was 
injured in the drone strike.
 source investigation by The Continent 
reveal a different reality. 
The bombs landed inside Ethiopia, 
not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed 
fighters – were killed. That distinction 
matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again 
tolerating a foreign military targeting its 
own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during 
the Tigray conflict.
 A transparent lie
 Even before the ink could dry on the 
Djiboutian military’s statement, The 
Addis Standard and human rights groups 
in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike 
had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s 
Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an 
adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl 
Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports 
in now-deleted social media posts.
 The Continent got to work to figure out 
what really happened. Over the course 
of eight months, we collected eyewitness 
testimonies, interviewed human rights 
activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and 
examined images and footage from the 
strike. Our findings align with those of 
Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed 
Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the 
site of the strike. 
The ammunition residue found on the 
night of the strike confirms the bomb 
was manufactured by Roketsan, a state
run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye. 
Former US army explosives expert 
Trevor Ball identified t…
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The economist just cited my Master's Thesis (!) on developmental authoritarianism in this piece: www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms
In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 04/09/2025
In this post @sndeall.bsky.social joins the dots between #MineAction #FoodSecurity and #ClimateChange - it's vital that we continue to reassess the risks posed by explosive remnants of war in light of new understanding and environmental risks theconversation.com/how-unexplod...
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How unexploded bombs cause environmental damage – and why climate change exacerbates the problem
One of the main ways conflict leads to environmental harm is by leaving behind unexploded weapons and ammunition.
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Felix Mantz @fmantz101.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania - Felix Mantz, 2025
Land grabbing is a persistent and highly dynamic global phenomenon whereby people's power over territories are alienated through multiple and ever-changing...
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Felix Mantz @fmantz101.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"The condition in Tigray today is such that the people are subjected to life-threatening circumstances that render them the “living dead,” trapped in a state of extreme precarity and exposed to various forms of premature death" by @tekgw.bsky.social tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
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Tigray as a Death World: Frantz Fanon, colonialism, and the limits of liberation struggles
Ethiopia’s relationship with its constituent peripheries and Tigray in particular can without any doubt be described as colonial—a peculiar example of internal colonialism, in the sense that it is not...
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My latest with the Global Observatory, on the need for urgent action in #Tigray: theglobalobservatory.org/2025/08/urge...
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Urgent Action Is Needed to Prevent Tigray from Sliding Back into War - IPI Global Observatory
The current state of “no war no peace” in northern Ethiopia seems to be preserved only by the rainy season’s predictable afternoon showers and relatively chill air. Tigrayans are making anxious prepar...
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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Yeah it's still very common to see Mussolini and Italian fascism depicted/considered as the "silly/pathetic inferior fascism" compared to Hitler/Nazi Germany. Besides what happened domestically, the stuff Italian fascists did in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia is among the worst in the 1930s and 1940s!
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 14/08/2025
Italy’s colonial past was as brutal “as anyone else’s”, from poison gas in Ethiopia to concentration camps in Yugoslavia. Yet the nation hides behind the myth of the “good Italian.” f.mtr.cool/hlmlhmwlqk
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