The Horn of Africa has been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern history. @tekgw.bsky.social and Hussein Sulieman write about the devastating wars in Ethiopia and Sudan, and how these have reshaped regional dynamics. 🔗 bit.ly/4oxE5OQ

And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e

A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere. Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...

On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time). Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War' Full details & venue address: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...

Travesty lies in the fact that Abiy now appears to be using the TPLF faction’s alleged ties with Eritrea as a pretext to further isolate & besiege what remains of Tigray — despite his own open alliance with the Eri regime to turn Tigray into a wasteland tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPRG4... Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade #politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography Please share and pass on to potentially interested people. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre. "Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life." by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo theconversation.com/starvation-a...

Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege. Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.

Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂 theconversation.com/starvation-a... #Politics

In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue, “When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.” theconversation.com/starvation-a...

Yesterday was an inspiring day at @ki.se , where I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a keynote speech on the role of scholarship during the genocide in Tigray and to take part in engaging panel discussions on academic freedom and democracy.

"For all intents and purposes, the United Nations has lost much of its influence, as its involvement and legitimacy have been progressively undermined." African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.” blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...

In a new blog, my colleague Smith Ouma and I highlight that a new wave of colonialism—less overt than in the past yet equally insidious—is unfolding, one that may lock Africa into another centuries-long asymmetrical relationship with new imperial forces.

In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act. Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg

From 2020–2022 in #Tigray, war & blockades turned hunger into a weapon, creating a man-made #famine & #genocide. The dehumanization of Tigrayans & invisibility of their experiences were their own forms of violence. Naming & recording this is vital for #accountability. Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8

In a blog, Birhan & I reflect, "Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."

"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability." Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA

In a new article for @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social, GDI's Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the silenced story of urban hunger that has accompanied Tigray's war, famine and genocide. Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

The economist just cited my Master's Thesis (!) on developmental authoritarianism in this piece: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

In this post @sndeall.bsky.social joins the dots between #MineAction #FoodSecurity and #ClimateChange - it's vital that we continue to reassess the risks posed by explosive remnants of war in light of new understanding and environmental risks theconversation.com/how-unexplod...

"The condition in Tigray today is such that the people are subjected to life-threatening circumstances that render them the “living dead,” trapped in a state of extreme precarity and exposed to various forms of premature death" by @tekgw.bsky.social tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...

My latest with the Global Observatory, on the need for urgent action in #Tigray: theglobalobservatory.org/2025/08/urge...

Yeah it's still very common to see Mussolini and Italian fascism depicted/considered as the "silly/pathetic inferior fascism" compared to Hitler/Nazi Germany. Besides what happened domestically, the stuff Italian fascists did in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia is among the worst in the 1930s and 1940s!

Italy’s colonial past was as brutal “as anyone else’s”, from poison gas in Ethiopia to concentration camps in Yugoslavia. Yet the nation hides behind the myth of the “good Italian.” https://f.mtr.cool/hlmlhmwlqk

In a new article for TGHAT, Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the war in Tigray in the context of enduring internal colonialism in Ethiopia, drawing on insights from Frantz Fanon. Read here: tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...

My latest on the poly-crisis in #Tigray; “In his seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon analyzes the complexities of anti-colonial struggle and the enduring structures of neocolonialism—structures strikingly similar, I argue, to those facing Tigray today.” tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...

Much of it is done in African languages, but far from all. Then even the few progressive westerners that understand and care don't have the confidence to say, "shut up fascist" to an African fascist.

This is a dream piece I’ve been considering doing if it weren’t for all the teaching load and the firefight that the situation in #Tigray has been. Once the dust settles, I hope to contribute to such a writing. 👇🏻

Only fascism on issues legible to progressive movements in the west is criticized, making virulent, genocidal fascism completely undetected in these spaces unless it's related to these matters. That makes it easy for horrors like #TigrayGenocide to be testing grounds as @tekgw.bsky.social wrote.

Now @justsecurity.org I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action. Time has run out www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

NEW REPORT 🧵 Displacement & Survival in Tigray Today @hpn4tigray.bsky.social released the second report of our series. The first looked at displacement trends. This looks at how people are surviving. The primary source of data comes from IOM-DTM IDP site assessments. /1 mailchi.mp/hpn4tigray/i...

Fascism is here.

No country has “the right to protect itself” by starving children.

I started hating the very normal phrase "African solutions to African problems" after #TigrayGenocide as they were using it to tell anyone exposing their evil selves that they're "imperialists" & all the so-called revolutionaries in the west seeing that keyword parroted regime genocide propaganda.

“I tried to resist and I cried and they beat me,” she says, weeping. They kicked her in the head with their military boots until she bled out of her ears. “Then they all raped me.” Tigray is a crime scene that the "leaders" of the world chose to ignore. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If you were unaware of the horrific atrocities carried out in Tigray, there's a reason for that. See @tekgw.bsky.social's Open Access piece: "Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"

⏰ the deadline is 30 June for this role with our new #Multispecies #Mutualisims project, generously funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social pls do get in contact if you have any questions ⬇️

Militaries already enjoy a high degree of environmental exceptionalism, with numerous exemptions and derogations from environmental standards on everything from hazardous chemicals to battery recycling, these stories should be viewed with this in mind bsky.app/profile/ceob... 2/2

What does justice look like in #Tigray where the Ethiopian regime and its allies have killed close to a million people, displaced millions, weaponised rape and sexual violence, and continue to use starvation as a weapon? youtu.be/7Js7pywQbtg

Register to follow our conversation on the rule of law, justice, and accountability in #Tigray, organised by the American Bar Association(‪@americanbar.org‬) on Tuesday next week. @manchester.ac.uk @globaldevinst.bsky.social @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social @hcrinstitute.bsky.social

The war in #Tigray, Ethiopia, from November 2020 to November 2022 has exacted a human toll—from massacre, #hunger, #disease, and on the battlefield. The information is all available. But it’s being erased. Read more here: worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/forgett...

"The anarchy allows Abiy to divide & discredit his enemies, arguably strengthening his hand. But it also erodes the authority of the Ethiopian state, potentially threatening his grip on power. Abiy may see method in the madness. Ethiopians are paying the price." www.economist.com/middle-east-...

We are currently looking for four new colleagues to join us at GDI in a range of roles. Explore the thread below to learn more about each of these opportunities...

The result is that instead of collecting and corroborating evidence, UN agencies in Addis Ababa continued to present absence of evidence as evidence of absence of violence and human suffering in Tigray.