Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by de WAAL Alex
In Tigray in northern Ethiopia a famine is unfolding in the dark. Reporters and aid workers have been unable to access large parts of the region since war broke out in November. Satellite imagery and aerial photographs have shown that only a fraction of the land was ploughed in preparation for (…)
, by BEAUDET Pierre, TESFAGIORGIS Paulos
Pierre Beaudet in conversation with Paulos Tesfagiorgis
Pierre Beaudet: The war has continued for the last three months without an apparent victory for one side or the other. What is happening on the ground?
Paulos Tesfagiorgis: The Tigray’ People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) seems to have (…)
, by BEAUDET Pierre, TESFAGIORGIS Paulos
The confrontation between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the other components of Ethiopia’s leadership has errupted into armed conflict. We expore the opportunities for peace, and the risks for the region.
Since 2018, the new Ethiopian Prime Minister (PM), Abiy Ahmed has been (…)
, by BEAUDET Pierre, TESFAGIORGIS Paulos
During the liberation war from the mid-seventies to the early 1990s, Paulos Tesfagiorgis was head of the Eritrean Relief Agency (ERA), the central organism that organized the provision of goods in the liberated areas of Eritrea and supported the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) shadow (…)
, by ZEWDE Bahru
Fifty years ago, a student movement transformed Ethiopia with radical calls for self-determination and land reform. But while the movement helped bring down the monarchy, the Ethiopia they fought for has never come to pass.
In countries throughout the world, the 1960s, and 1968 in particular, (…)
, by JAY Stephanie
Africa’s massive new free trade deal promises to unify over a billion people and lift the continent out of poverty. But the case of Ethiopia shows that it will instead spark a continental race to the bottom and shut workers out from economic policy.
These days, a lot of history is being made (…)
, by Africa is a Country, HARDY Vincent, HAUGE Jostein Løhr
How long can factory owners impose the lowest wages in the world?
Ethiopia is going through an economic transformation. Having been the world’s fastest growing economy in the last 15 years, it’s often dubbed the African Lion—a nickname to draw a contrast, yet indicate similarities, between (…)
, by GEBISSA Ezekiel
A wave of protest in Ethiopia highlights the country’s history of exploitation and dispossession. This summer, when marathon runner Feyisa Lelisa crossed the Rio finish line with his hands crossed above his head, he expressed his solidarity with a protest movement in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional (…)
, by TERBACH Lea
When the West became conscious of the uprising taking place in Ethiopia, some time had already passed since the emperor Haile Selassie had been overthrown, along with the oldest theocracy on the planet - an ancient feudal dynasty, feudal, born out of the myth of the biblical romance of King (…)
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