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...

Why Tigray’s Industrial Heart Has Failed to Restart Three years after the Pretoria Agreement, the expected ‘peace dividend’ has vanished. Trapped between a liquidity crisis and political deadlock, #Tigray’s economy is not just stalling – it is disintegrating.

Meanwhile, in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said his country does not want war, even as regional Tigray authorities say federal forces are massing around the northern region, raising fears of renewed conflict.

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...

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

UN Rights Chief Calls for Urgent De‑escalation In #Tigray Volker Türk: “The situation remains highly volatile, and we fear it will further deteriorate. There must be concerted and sustained efforts by all parties, with the help of the int’l community, to de-escalate tensions before it is too late.”

Tigray Calls on AU for Immediate Action to Avert War The #Tigray interim administration, in a letter addressed to the AU, called for “immediate action to avoid an imminent war. The repercussions of a new conflict would be catastrophic and irreversible” and “plunge the region into a wider conflict.”

UPDATE: according to reports from Tigray regional state television, drone strikes targeted trucks in two north-east Tigray towns at 4AM local time. A driver was killed, another is injured. These would be the first civilian casualties of drone strikes in Tigray, since the Tigray war ended in 2022.

BBC News - Ethiopian Airlines cancels flights to Tigray as fears mount of renewed conflict - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Published today! Teaching comparative and international education (CIE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... pleasure working with great colleagues Leanne Cameron @rafaelmitchell.bsky.social Martin Preston @bristoluni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social #BAICE #SES

@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.

**Post-war reconstruction of education in Tigray, Ethiopia** What was the plan for re-opening schools in Tigray after the devastating 2020-2022 civil war? Who was involved in decision-making, and what evidence did they draw on? What were the results?

Today is UN's Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide Here's an incredibly powerful book containing life-history accounts of 20 everyday people #Mekelle #Tigray during the civil war & its aftermath (2020-2023) - books.openedition.org/cfee/3812

“The #Tigray population have been through hell on earth. If people can name it, it’s a genocide at best…in a country where over a million lives are lost and a horrific number of gender violence and mutilated young people, people destroyed as families, infrastructure.” — Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin

"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world" Call for papers! #EduSky @edusky.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...

This post is an open letter to everyone who wants to participate in FACE. Please read, reflect, and share widely. Tag people. Subscribe to the mailing list. Join our conversations, participate in our programmes, and share ideas. Stand with us. Let us work together. folukeafrica.com/forever-afri...

"Forever Africa Conference and Events (FACE) is a Pan-African collective, established in 2017 and brought together by staff and students at the University of Bristol. Our focus was and still remains to creatively find ways to cultivate knowledge for, by and of African and African-descended people."

For anyone wondering what life was like in Mekelle during the civil war and its aftermath, this open access book contains the personal accounts of 20 civilians - everyday people, mostly from from the lower middle classes books.openedition.org/cfee/3812

"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world" Call for papers! #EduSky @edusky.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...

For anyone wondering what life was like in Mekelle during the civil war and its aftermath, this open access book contains the personal accounts of 20 civilians - everyday people, mostly from from the lower middle classes books.openedition.org/cfee/3812

“Today, Tigray is broken. Its leaders are divided. Another war looms, one that could pit Tigrayans against each other. I fought once to defend my people; I will not fight again in a war that will destroy what remains. That is why I left.” An incredibly sad account. open.substack.com/pub/continen...

Weaponized Starvation: How Ethiopia Created Famine In Tigray The famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of deliberate policies—a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid by #Ethiopia and its allies—designed to destroy civilian life. theconversation.com/starvation-a...

We hear a lot about AI in education in the US on here, so can I just tell you about how it's working out in the schools sector in England? It's interesting! It's about data consultants, private education outfits and think tanks. Slow thread...

Looks like @mottmacdonald.bsky.social is *closing* Cambridge Education with implications for education in Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan & West Africa This a few months after MM reported record growth, with global revenue reaching £2.5bn for the first time

Famine in Tigray: Hunger and Humiliation worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...

New report on conditions in Tigray, Ethiopia www.researchgate.net/publication/...

"Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams" Interesting piece on how AI is affecting educational experiences and outcomes for rural communities in Latin America #edusky restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

A new report on internally displaced persons in Tigray. This makes bitter reading - an ongoing, overlooked humanitarian crisis, with many lacking food, water, shelter, health and education provision This study based on a survey with 4500 IDPs & interviews with 640 www.tig-comm.org/wp-content/u...

What utter contempt @gwr.com has for cyclists. Two reservable cycle spaces between Cardiff and London. I had a reservation from Bristol Parkway, but the train manager wouldn't let me board - lack of space, he says @cyclinguk.bsky.social

How train companies ensure cycling in the UK is impossible for commuters: @crosscountryuk.bsky.social refused a small crowd of cyclists from boarding my train today and unnecessarily removed the bike of a man travelling to work, delaying the service, and wasting the time of police. 1/3

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

David Lammy is betting that those complicit in Israel’s genocide will never go to prison. He bets that Western and Israeli impunity will protect him and the other Guilty Men and Women forever. It is a bet he may find he’ll lose. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release. This is censorship and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I feel like there's not enough people talking about how EThOS is still offline following the British Library cyber attack in October 2023. This is a hugely valuable resource to British PGRs and ECRs!

Hi @britishlibrary.bsky.social, please can we have an update on EThOS? The doctoral thesis archive has been down for almost 2 years, and there's no date for restoring this service, as far as I can see? EThOS isn't a nice-to-have luxury, it's an essential service for research

At least this is now getting some coverage, but concerning that the police (government) have not issued a clear statement that this was a mistake by the officers concerned. What kind of directions are they getting?

“I approach this as a lawyer and historian. But I wonder what Israel’s defenders would regard as unacceptable, if this level of violence is not enough. This is not self-defence. It is collective punishment, or revenge, not just on Hamas but on entire population. It is a war crime": Jonathan Sumption

Hello, this is one is close to home; House Teenagers old school. Sounds like an awful experience for the kids, please consider signing the petition (link next post). For the teachers to cut the trip short, it must have been shockingly bad.

NEW open access study on the leadership of equitable and inclusive education provision in LMICs during crises link.springer.com/article/10.1...

BLOG POST: “At The Swan With Two Necks last night we found all the Moor beers on the chalkboard marked with Palestinian flags... £2 from each Moor beer will go to Palestinian Aid...” boakandbailey.com/2025/07/moor...

An object lesson in how not to engage whilst displaying company branding. Bravo @drinkmoorbeer.bsky.social

This article is extremely graphic and upsetting, almost impossible to read. Kudos @theguardian.com Devastating atrocities committed against women & girls during Tigray genocide According to the UN, there is “no likely prospect that the domestic judicial system will hold perpetrators accountable"

Such an interesting thread. Emphasising recall (with quizzes) over thinking is a big problem, bsky.app/profile/apf1...

While the eyes of the world are on Iran, the Israeli military is still slaughtering civilians in Gaza as they try to access food after months of starvation. We can't let the Israeli govt's unprovoked attack on Iran distract us from the unfolding genocide www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Recognising the ‘extended’ work of English teachers in post-conflict Tigray, Ethiopia New @britishcouncil.bsky.social ELTRA research award for colleagues at Mekelle University www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications...

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

Your occasional reminder to be glad that Michael Rosen not only exists, but continually challenges the pomposity of the education system. Fascinating read, but one that makes my heart sink thinking about these poor children.

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."