Ethiopia
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Vantage | Why Ethiopia-Somaliland Red Sea port deal is bad news for Africa
The Vantage Take •It is an opportunistic move, as Ethiopia has long wanted access to the sea, and its Prime Minister recently called it an existential question
Somalia’s cabinet calls emergency meet on Ethiopia, Somaliland port deal
Ajeyo Basu •Notwithstanding its 1991 declaration of independence from Somalia, Somaliland has not attained general international recognition. Somaliland is a part of Somalia
Ethiopia: Former minister arrest over alleged links to rebel group
Ajeyo Basu •Taye Dendea is accused by federal police in a statement made on Tuesday of being a member of the Oromo Liberation Army, a group that is prohibited as a terrorist organisation, and of "collaborating with anti-peace forces that are trying to destroy Ethiopia"
From Torkham to Gaza: Unravelling challenges of global refugee dynamics
Sandeep Chachra And Iyce Malhotra •The Global North needs to take responsibility through financial reparations for their complicity in creating the global refugee crisis
Vantage | Is Ethiopia's Nobel laureate president stoking another war?
The Vantage Take •While there is merit in the economic arguments put forth by Abiy Ahmed, the pursuit of port access, especially through the threat of force, raises significant concerns
At least 183 killed in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region
•In April the Ethiopian government announced it was dismantling regional forces across the country triggering tensions with Amhara nationalists believe it would weaken their region
Eritrea, Ethiopia deny US accusations of war crimes in Tigray conflict
•Ethiopia's foreign affairs ministry called the US claims "inflammatory" and "untimely", while Eritrea's foreign affairs ministry said they were "unsubstantiated and defamatory"
Ethiopia rejects US war crime allegations as 'inflammatory'
•US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who last week made his first visit to Ethiopia since a breakthrough November 2022 peace deal between the federal government and Tigrayan rebels, on Monday made a forceful call for accountability on his return to Washington
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy in bid to renew ties
•Blinken is the highest-ranking US official to visit Africa's second most populous nation since war broke out in late 2020 between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels, fraying US relations with its longtime ally as Washington alleged crimes against humanity
Antony Blinken to press for Ethiopia peace progress on top US visit since war
•Blinken will arrive Wednesday for talks in Addis Ababa with the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who transformed from a close US ally to near-pariah over the two-year war in the Tigray region that has left more people dead than the Russian invasion of Ukraine