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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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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think it’s you who coined it, but i agree.
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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
The suffering of civilians cannot continue in silence. Read @hrw.org's latest report on the unrelenting violence on Tigrayans. www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
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Ethiopia: Persecution of Tigrayans Unrelenting
Authorities and security forces in Ethiopia’s contested Western Tigray Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and imposing a discriminatory system that severely restricts their movements, emp...
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
observers are essential. As I stated in the interview: “It is the Amhara forces that occupy Western Tigray, but it was the government that brought them into this area during the war and continues to pay them, train them, and provide them with resources.”
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Tigray is a crime scene which the Ethiopian regime is willing to do anything to prevent external observers from witnessing what's happening. The situation demands urgent international attention. Accountability, protection of civilians, and unrestricted access for independent...
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“It’s as if the siege imposed on Tigray during the war was never lifted,” I noted, referring to the continued restrictions on access to Western Tigray, where international observers and journalists remain barred. Western....
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I argue that the current situation in Western Tigray, but also in broader Tigray is nothing, but an extension of the war and siege that started in late 2020.
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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
This maybe of interest to you @zekuzelalem.bsky.social and @timnitgebru.blacksky.app.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We talk about not only the violence inflicted on Tigrayans, but also the politics of visibility, silence, and international response in the face of mass atrocity and genocide. Listen to the full episode here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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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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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We also reflect on how, despite the scale and depth of suffering, the war remained largely invisible to the world due to a full-scale communications blackout, restrictions on media access, and broader forms of silencing — amounting to an attack on knowledge production itself.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
reproductive violence, the destruction and looting of social and economic infrastructure, and the siege that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands through deprivation of food and medicine, as well as massacres, enforced disappearances, and the internment of ethnic Tigrayans.
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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
You can also listen to a conversation I had on the article here, open.spotify.com/show/06n4Uuy... or here www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is based on an earlier article about the production of "zone of invisibility" in Tigray. 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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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
We also note that “Famine in #Tigray was a deliberate effort to weaken and humiliate a population. The implications go beyond Ethiopia. They expose how global systems remain unfit for documenting or responding to politically induced famine.” #TigrayGenocide
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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
"The UN system has collapsed, and securing a seat within this deteriorating institution (a seeming preoccupation by some of the leaders) does little to protect Africa from the injustices of old and new colonial dynamics being shaped around the continent."
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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
"This afterlife manifests not through conquest, at least not yet, but through opaque investment agreements, peace accords, and diplomatic gestures. If left unchallenged, it threatens to consign Africa to another century of external domination."
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