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24 November 2021

The United States has stationed a ranger battalion and three warships at its military base in Djibouti. They were given orders to stand ready to intervene in Ethiopia.
The State Department has called on its nationals to leave Ethiopia on their own, warning that there will be no organized (...)

The Cebrowski doctrine in the Horn of Africa

After Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, the chaos is spreading to Ethiopia and soon to Eritrea

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 16 November 2021

US ambassador Jeffrey Feltman is overseeing the extension of the Cebrowski doctrine to the Horn of Africa. After setting Sudan on fire, he is now targeting Ethiopia and sanctioning Eritrea. The Tigrayans (an Ethiopian people) are unknowingly serving Washington’s strategy against both these (...)

Ethiopian Statement on the US Government Sanctions Imposed on the Eritrean Government

Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia) | 13 November 2021

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The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia denounces the announcement of the United States on November 12, 2021, to impose sanctions on the State of Eritrea. We believe the US has failed to consider important facts:
1. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) (...)

Ethiopia cleared by High Commissioner for Human Rights

5 November 2021

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, released her report on the conflict in Tigray (Ethiopia) on 3 November 2021. While determining that numerous crimes were committed, the HCHR exonerates the government from any genocidal intent or using hunger as a weapon. (...)

«A Perspective on the Ethiopian-U.S. Relationship After a Year of Conflict»

by Jeffrey D. Feltman

1 November 2021

Had someone previewed for me in 2015 — in the middle of my six-year tenure as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs — that I would someday serve as the U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, I would have scoffed: Government service fell into the “been there/done that” (...)

Egyptian perspective on the Renaissance dam

by Sameh Shokry

Cairo (Egypt) | 25 June 2021

I am writing further to my letters addressed to the President of the Security Council dated 13 April 2021 (S/2021/354) and 11 June 2021 (S/2021/565) on the question of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
After a decade of fruitless negotiations, the question of the GERD has, (...)

Statement by Joe Biden on the Crisis in Ethiopia

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 26 May 2021

I am deeply concerned by the escalating violence and the hardening of regional and ethnic divisions in multiple parts of Ethiopia. The large-scale human rights abuses taking place in Tigray, including widespread sexual violence, are unacceptable and must end. Families of every background and (...)

WHO chief accused of arms trafficking

20 November 2020

The Ethiopian army has accused WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of being the sponsor behind the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus served as Ethiopian Minister of Health (2005-12), before being appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-16). He is a (...)

Second African Union meeting on the Renaissance Dam

Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia) | 21 July 2020

Communiqué of the second extraordinary African Union Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government video teleconference meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), 21 July 2020
His Excellency President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, in (...)

The African Union at the Renaissance Dam

Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia) | 26 June 2020

Communiqué of the extraordinary African Union Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government video teleconference meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), 26 June 2020
President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African (...)

The Egypt/Sudan/Eritrea/Ethiopia crisis

6 February 2018

Egypt and Sudan are entangled in a number of conflicts:
– The border between the two states has not been defined. The Halayeb region, occupied by Egypt since 2000, is still claimed by Sudan. Upon Egypt’s surrender of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia, in 2016, the kingdom reportedly (...)

Washington Opens New US Drone Base in Africa

8 November 2011

Washington increased its drone fleet to 7 000 units in Africa, and opened a new drone base in an airport in Southern Ethiopia.
Along with two other drone bases located in Djibouti (Camp Lemonier) and on the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean, the new base in Ethiopia increases the (...)

“Israel” in Africa

by Galal Nassar

Cairo (Egypt) | 27 September 2009

Despite the humanitarian rhetoric about the problems plaguing African nations, the first visit by an Israeli foreign minister in 20 years was mainly used to lay the groundwork for arms deals. Tel Aviv’s promises to African states are the gloss on an exercise in extreme cynicism. Behind a (...)

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