NEW REPORT | MINOR DEMARCATIONS MICRO-DAMS—MAJOR DRAMA? @jowedekind.bsky.social and Kedir Jamal examine how admin changes, micro-dams and regional rivalries in the Oromia–Somali borderlands risk reigniting conflict and unsettling fragile peace. Read more: bit.ly/4mm7WtI #Ethiopia

Whether or not Tigray’s negotiators could have secured a better deal, the main sticking point now driving the TPLF apart is the failure to return home nearly one million displaced people – a key part of the peace deal.

With no incentive to practice restraint, drone atrocities across Africa are becoming increasingly frequent, causing friction with Western partners. In Ethiopia, this has paved the way for Turkey and Russia to expand their influence. @zekuzelalem.bsky.social @ecfr.eu 📃👉

My report for @aljazeera.com from Awra Amba, a utopian and pacifist community in the central highlands of Ethiopia. They have won awards for their peacemaking and conflict resolution - but they have been caught in the crossfire of Ethiopia's latest civil war. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

New Alert 📰Tensions between #Ethiopia and #Eritrea are on the rise, and risk escalating into a military confrontation, with 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 for the Horn region. 📚 Read more ⤵️ clingendael.org/publication/...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 193 of The Continent. In Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, everyday life is overshadowed by the threat of returning to war.

Eritrea has long been subject to the whims of two more powerful nations: its neighbor Ethiopia, and the United States. Its geography made it a valuable asset, especially during the Cold War.

Tigray IDPs Enduring Squalid Living Conditions Acc to the Global Shelter Cluster, highlighted the dire conditions of the more than 900,000 #Tigray IDPs—18% of whom face “severe overcrowding and lack of privacy,” which “pose(s) serious health and protection risks.” 1/ reliefweb.int/report/ethio...

You can watch No Other Land and spread it far and wide bsky.app/profile/jann...

"Over 85 % of CSOs in #Ethiopia have paused operations following the Trump administration’s clampdown on #USAID" www.thereporterethiopia.com/44011/

Recent ethnic cleansing campaigns in Sudan and Ethiopia remind us Zero Discrimination Day (1 March) still marks a distant aspiration. Based on 46,269 face-to-face interviews conducted by Afrobarometer, we may be losing ground. Via @thecontinent.org

#OtD 1 Mar 1896 Ethiopian forces decisively defeated Italian invaders at the battle of Adwa. Up to 70% of Italy's invasion force of around 6000 troops were captured or killed. Italy then gave up its claim of Ethiopia, and also surrendered some of Eritrea stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7...

Fun trivia: Zelenskyy partly grew up in the copper mining town of Erdenet in Mongolia because his father worked for a mining company.

What a fascinating talk by @michellehenning.bsky.social, linking photography to chemical warfare via Benjamin's aura & Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Really looking forward to Henning's forthcoming book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

When Sudan’s war broke out in 2023, about 12,500 Sudanese people crossed into Ethiopia. Initially, they were sheltered in the Awlala and Kumer refugee camps. But Ethiopia was experiencing its own conflict. As the fighting intensified, refugees became easy targets.

Decarbonisation threatens the very structure of intl order, founded on fossil-fuelled economic growth and interdependence Can Climate action survive geopolitical fragmentation? Can it thrive on a tightrope? @picharbonnier.bsky.social interview on War Ecology greeneuropeanjournal.eu/if-you-want-...

Amhara Region Cracks Down on Qemant Minority The Qemant ethnic minority have been in conflict with the authorities in Amhara over land disputes. Some of their representatives are being prosecuted on terror charges and are accused of supporting Fano rebels. www.africaintelligence.com/eastern-afri...

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

In 2024 I spent a lot of time in Brandenburg and Sachsen, Länder that both voted >30% for the AfD Here are a few observations from that time spent there (thread is from Mastodon, bridged to Bluesky)

New publication via @politicalgeography.bsky.social 📜 How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible? In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One huge story from this election is that the incoming Chancellor got overexcited and said “the Left is finished” and a day later the Left became the biggest party in Berlin, and took almost 9% of the national vote. I hope that phrase haunts Merz for the rest of his career.

#WahlabendHangover so: Meine Freude über das tolle Wahlergebnis von Die Linke 🚩🚀 und meine Schadenfreude über das Scheitern von FDP und BSW an der 5%-Hürde ist stark getrübt - die Schuldenbremse ist verklemmt und im Rückspiegel sieht man die 💩-Fratzen der #FCKAFD auf der Überholspur. Fight fascism!

Auch nicht ganz unwichtig: Die Zuwächse der Linkspartei sind vor allem Verschiebungen innerhalb des linken Lagers, bei denen der AfD spielen vormalige Nicht-Wähler hingegen eine erhebliche Rolle. (aus: www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/...)

Das gesamte Land hat Zukunftsangst, und das ist erstmal rational, weil die Zukunft wird noch dunkler, als die Gegenwart. Deshalb ist es ja so absurd, dass #Grüne und #SPD einen Harris-Style "weiter so, nur besser!"-Wahlkampf führten. Wer gewinnen will, muss Ängste politisieren!

Wer zu 39% AfD in Thüringen schweigt, aber sich lauthals über 20% Linke in Berlin aufregt, zeigt sehr schön, wes Geistes Kind er ist - und wo er politisch steht.

Berlin CDU must have some very scary internal polling. The SPD is pushing back within the govt on the massive cuts to culture and the promises to fix admin and housing have not materialized into real action. Given federal numbers the city is on track to a return to R2G but led by the Left.

This gets at the problem of how difficult to actually address the rise of the far right via govt policy and how it is much more than the cry of the forgotten man.

2020 sprach ich mit der RLS darüber, wie wir uns auf die Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung und deren Ankunft in Südafrika vorbereiten. Zeit, das wieder aus der Schublade zu holen und weiter daran zu arbeiten.

Sorry, ich will eigentlich gar nicht auf der am Boden liegenden FDP rumhacken. Ich finde es nur absolut fantastisch, wenn vulgärliberale Egomännchen im Slim-Fit-Anzug mal deutlich ihre Unbeliebtheit aufgezeigt kriegen.

So important 👇🏽 I see a lot of English-language reporting about how it could have been worse. To be clear: these election results are an enormous success for the far right, including in its heartland of Saxony where they scored 34%.

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New open access (free!) book on the politics of Ethiopian dam building, 'Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance', out now global.oup.com/academic/pro... @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @oupacademic.bsky.social

Ethiopia’s government has committed itself to a transitional justice process to confront its violent past. Yet it is also currently attacking civil society groups and media freedom. TEMELSO GASHAW on where to go from here. verfassungsblog.de/ethiopia-tra...

Ethiopia Suspends TPLF Over 'Missed' General Assembly Ethiopia's election board suspended #TPLF from political activities for 3-months for failing to hold general assembly on time, warning that its registration will be canceled if corrective measures aren't taken. addisstandard.com/nebe-suspend...

NEW REPORT | DOMINANT PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS OF URBAN CONTESTATIONS IN HAWASSA @eyobbalcha.bsky.social & Robel Mulat examine how political, social & economic contestations have shaped Hawassa over decades. Read more: bit.ly/4hQeyO3 #Ethiopia

Merry Christmas from the badass farmers of #Tigray! New data from the Meher Harvest Report shows crop production more than doubled since last year across the accessible areas of Tigray.

Western Envoys In Mekelle to Discuss Pretoria Peace Deal A delegation from the US, EU, UK, Italy, Germany, Denmark and France arrived in #Tigray's capital, Mekelle, to discuss “the implementation of the Pretoria peace agreement and efforts to ensure lasting peace.” addisstandard.com/us-eu-and-ot...

📣SOAS Event 12 Feb Join us for the screening of ‘Made in Ethiopia’. bit.ly/4jNRyB5 Co-directed by filmmakers Max Duncan and Xinyan Yu - the film explores Ethiopia as a country at the new frontier of globalisation. Find out more bit.ly/4jKt0ZP

Honey Baby - Alemayehu Eshete [Ethiopia, Ethiopian Swing, Swinging Addis] (1969-1974) https://redd.it/h01l8w https://youtu.be/Sa9QRhfap4w

Kenya and Ethiopia launch military offensive on OLA militant hideouts #Kenya #OSINT #GEOINT

Some may recall, e.g., the diversion scandal in Ethiopia that prompted a long suspension of US food aid funding. USAID expanded its monitoring efforts, w/ congressional support, in response. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

"DALAK BAND - SINTAYEHU" (ETHIOPIA, JAZZ, 1960s) https://redd.it/61vn6o https://youtu.be/Z0D5NnUFfC4

Les réformes économiques en Ethiopie, géant d'Afrique de l'Est dont l'économie est encore largement administrée, sont "dures" mais elles "porteront leurs fruits", a assuré dimanche la directrice générale du Fonds monétaire international (FMI), Kristalina Georgieva #AFP

Asebe Regassa on 'Authoritarian Urbanism in #Ethiopia: Urban Redesigning as Political Spectacle' curateoromia.com/authoritaria...

I just came back from Tigray, and while I’m not a regional expert, the power struggle within the TPLF was indeed a main concern for people I talked with. Very worrying after relative stability just returned to parts of northern Ethiopia at the end of one of the world’s most devastating wars.

“In the famine seasons, sometimes everyone in the Kebele would get USAID for maybe two months or three months in a year. During this time, we had no food. This was our only access to food.” – Biri, from a Hamar village in Ethiopia. Biri is a student supported by @omovalleyresearchproject.org.