Tag Archive for: Sudan
Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed goes from flying start to a quicksand of troubles
The National News | Prime minister faces civil war, ethnic divisions and simmering disputes with neighbours.
For Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the promise and optimism he projected when he took the reins in the Horn of Africa nation…
Ethiopia arrests 15 over UAE embassy attack plot: Reports
Al Jazeera | The country’s intelligence and security service said suspects were working on direction of foreigners, local media report.
Ethiopia’s state-run media have said authorities arrested 15 people over a plot to attack the United…
Sudan army clashes with Ethiopia forces, regains control of seized borderland
MEMO | Border clashes between the Sudanese army and Ethiopian forces were renewed in Al-Fashqa Al-Sughra on Thursday. Sudanese sources have confirmed that the army has regained control of new lands previously seized by Ethiopian forces.
The…
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam generates grand hostility with Egypt
Daily Maverik 168 | Can SA help to defuse the tensions growing over Ethiopia’s giant project on the Nile? Egypt fears it will cut water flow, on which it depends. But Sudan and Ethiopia need the power. The clock is ticking.
South Africa has…
As Ethiopia fills its Nile dam, regional rivalries overflow
The Christian Monitor | When African Union-mediated talks between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan over a Nile River dam broke down yet again last month, it didn’t mark a new disagreement over sharing vital water resources.
Rather, it was a case…
Five Reasons why the UN Security Council needs to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia
World Peace Foundation | Alex de Waal | 14.12.2020
Today, the UN Security Council members are expected to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
It’s a matter for UN Security Council urgent business for several reasons.
First, it’s…
Rising tension as Ethiopia and Sudan deadlocked on border dispute
Al Jazeera | Bickering over contested farmland along the border has in recent weeks deteriorated into armed clashes.
Age-old territorial claims are threatening to embroil Ethiopia and Sudan into armed conflict, as bickering over disputed strips…
UAE: The scramble for the Horn of Africa
MEMO | The United Arab Emirates is waging a war for influence over the Horn of Africa.
Since the 2011 Arab Spring the United Arab Emirates has been taking an active role in a number of hotspots from Egypt, Libya to Yemen. The Gulf nation…
France – Official statement on the situation in Ethiopia
Situation in Tigray
(29 January 2021)
France is extremely concerned by the gravity of the humanitarian and food crisis in Tigray and reiterates its call to the Ethiopian government to facilitate access to the region – including the Hitsats…
Foreign meddling as a source of state fragility in Ethiopia
MEMO Opinion | State fragility is a multidimensional concept that is often characterized by deficiencies in one or more areas of the core functions of the state: legitimacy, authority (competing claimants to power), and capacity (weak capacity…