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Jun
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Three MSF employees killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Three MSF employees killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

NEWS
THREE employees working for the Spanish branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were killed by unknown assailants in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the medical charity has announced. MSF-Spain lost contact with a vehicle carrying the team on Thursday afternoon, it said in a statement. "This morning the vehicle was found empty and a few metres away, their lifeless bodies." "We condemn this attack on our colleagues in the strongest possible terms and will be relentless in understanding what happened," the statement said. It identified the victims as emergency coordinator Maria Hernandez, 35, from Madrid, assistant coordinator Yohannes Halefom Reda, 31, from…
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Jun
24
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Only combatants hit in Tigray air strike’

‘Only combatants hit in Tigray air strike’

NEWS
AYENAT MERSIE ONLY combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the country's military spokesman said today. Colonel Getnet Adane told Reuters in an interview in Addis Ababa that the combatants in the town of Togoga were dressed in civilian clothes. An air strike killed at least 43 people in the town on Tuesday, a medical official told Reuters. The strike took place after residents said new fighting had flared in recent days north of the regional capital Mekelle. A resident of the town told Reuters on Wednesday that the air strike a…
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Jun
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Officials count ballots after Ethiopia’s election

Officials count ballots after Ethiopia’s election

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW and MAGGIE FICK OFFICIALS in Ethiopia have started counting ballots  after a parliamentary election billed as the first free vote in the country's history but marred by an opposition boycott, war and reports of irregularities in some areas. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hopes the national and regional elections will show the success of democratic reforms he launched after being appointed by the ruling coalition in 2018. But the vote also reflects a messy reality in the country of 109 million people. Authorities could not hold polls on Monday in four of Ethiopia's 10 regions, according to the election…
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Jun
22
2021
By The African Mirror
A family’s tragic history, struggle for freedom

A family’s tragic history, struggle for freedom

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW AND AYENAT MERSE BEFORE unemployed labourer Ayalew Wedajo voted in yesterday's Ethiopian election, he prayed for the soul of his eldest son Getinet, killed in a pro-democracy demonstration 16 years ago. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has billed the poll as Ethiopia's "first attempt at free and fair elections". Rigging and repression marred most previous votes - except in 2005, when the opposition swept the capital and won an unprecedented 147 out of 547 parliamentary seats. But then a crackdown on protests over disputed results killed hundreds - including Getinet - and tens of thousands of people were arrested.…
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Jun
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia prepares for tense elections

Ethiopia prepares for tense elections

NEWS
GUILIA PARAVICINI and DAWIT ENDESHAW ETHIOPIA is preparing for national and regional parliamentary elections on Monday that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said will be the country's first free and fair polls after decades of repressive rule. But voting has been delayed in 110 out of 547 constituencies because of violent conflicts and logistical problems and some opposition parties are boycotting the elections over what they describe as harassment of their members. One candidate is contesting the election from jail. Abiy won international plaudits and a Nobel Peace Prize for democratic reforms and for ending two decades of hostilities with…
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Jun
14
2021
By The African Mirror
G7 calls for immediate cessation of hostilities in Tigray region

G7 calls for immediate cessation of hostilities in Tigray region

NEWS
THE Group of Seven wealthiest economies yesterday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region. "We are deeply concerned by the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region and reports of an unfolding major humanitarian tragedy," said a communique issued following a leaders' summit in Britain. "We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, unimpeded humanitarian access to all areas and the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean forces." Fighting broke out in the region in November between government troops and the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Troops from neighbouring Eritrea also entered the conflict…
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May
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Soldiers detain hundreds in Tigray

Soldiers detain hundreds in Tigray

NEWS
GUILIA PARAVICINI and KATHERINE HOURELD ERITREAN and Ethiopian soldiers forcibly detained more than 500 young men and women from four camps for displaced people in the town of Shire in the northern region of Tigray on Monday night, three aid workers and a doctor told Reuters. The soldiers arrived at around 11 p.m. and loaded hundreds of people onto trucks, the humanitarians and the doctor said, citing witnesses' accounts. Several men were beaten, their phones and money confiscated, one of the aid workers said. One man who lives in one of the camps, and hid during the incursion, said soldiers…
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May
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia accuses US of meddling

Ethiopia accuses US of meddling

NEWS
GUILIA PARAVICINI ETHIOPIA has accused the United States of meddling in its affairs after Washington announced restrictions on economic and security assistance over alleged human rights abuses during the conflict in the northern Tigray region. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday the restrictions were meant to push the parties involved to settle the conflict that erupted in November. Thousands have died in the fighting that has pitted Tigray's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), against the Ethiopian federal government and allied forces from neighbouring Eritrea. Ethiopia's foreign ministry said that if the U.S. restrictions…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopian soldiers guilty Tigray crimes

Ethiopian soldiers guilty Tigray crimes

NEWS
AYENAT MERSIE THREE Ethiopian soldiers have been convicted of rape and one of killing a civilian in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the government said on Friday, the first public statement that soldiers had been found guilty of crimes against civilians in the conflict. Twenty-eight more soldiers are on trial for killing civilians and 25 for acts of sexual violence and rape, the statement from the attorney general's office said. Awol Sultan, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, could not immediately be reached for comment for further details or whether the records would be made public. Neither could military spokesman General…
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May
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Genocide in Ethiopia? Why answering the question will be a challenge

Genocide in Ethiopia? Why answering the question will be a challenge

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
THE head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church, Abune Mathias, recently condemned the ongoing armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the suffering it’s causing the civilian population. In a video message, he was seen saying “genocide is being committed now”. FIREW TIBA, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University Abune Mathias may be the highest-profile figure to label the alleged criminal acts against Tigrayans as genocide, but he’s not the first. In January, the leader of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and former president of Tigray – Debretsion Gebremichael – accused the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces of waging a “devastating and genocidal war” in…
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