Martin Plaut News Archive
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CATEGORY: ETHIOPIA
New study of Tigray – violence and casualties during the war and after
22/07/2024 0 Comments
Sudan: RSF advance puts tens of thousands of Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees at risk
Ethiopia: How not to conduct a National Dialogue
Metema Camp refugee camp in western Ethiopia flooded – an appeal for help
An appeal to the BBC from Britain’s Tigrayan community
Ethiopia: Amhara billionaire -Worku Aytenew – forced into exile
The worst humanitarian and economic crisis in Ethiopia
A Reflection on Eritrea’s Role in the Tigray Conflict: A Personal Perspective
Genocide in Tigray: Serious breaches of international law in the Tigray conflict, Ethiopia, and paths to accountability
Eritrean opposition meet in Addis
Abiy’s forces deliberately attacked civilians in the Amhara region of Ethiopia
Eyewitness report on the horrors of war in Tigray in 1889
Open Letter to The London Metropolitan Police Commissioner about Eritrean Brigade N’Hamedu in the UK
Abiy’s regime posed a threat to the existence of Ethiopia as a state
Crisis in Ethiopia: An account from Mary’s Meals in Tigray
A demonstration in London against Italian aggression against Ethiopia in 1935
A revealing biography of PM Abiy Ahmed
26/04/2024
Catholic Irob minority has lost its home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Tigray: The Fractured Reality After the Pretoria Peace Agreement
Ethiopia’s Radical Revolutionary Student Movement
The Eritrea-Ethiopia border war of 1998-2000 revisited
Is the Horn of Africa struggling towards a post-colonial society?
Peace deal as a preparation time for a second phase war
TPLF needs to chart a new path ahead for Tigray
Ethiopia’s hidden famine needs national and global attention
Appeal to UN Women over gross abuses of Tigrayan women
Ethiopia: Africa’s tiger economy is shot
This century’s deadliest conflicts aren’t taking place in Ukraine or Gaza
Tigray: Beyond Cessation of Hostilities: Sustaining Peace
Tigray: “Everyone is hungry…There is simply not enough money to give food to everyone”
Ethiopia’s Quest for Sea Access and the Question of Somali Sovereignty
19/02/2024
Eritrean refugees fleeing to Ethiopia are being ransomed and tortured in Tigray – report
16/02/2024
New Live Aid Musical launched: Ethiopian are starving once more
Exodus and internal discontent after the peace agreement in Tigray
Failed harvests and discontinued food aid: after war, now famine in Tigray
The Ethiopia – Somaliland deal
Is Ethiopia’s disintegration an inevitable and necessary evil?
Tigray: the war the world forgot
A lengthy and detailed review of “Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War” by Sarah Vaughan and Martin Plaut
‘The land is dead’: once again, millions of Ethiopians are on the brink of famine
Tigray: ‘Everything that held us together as a people is now in ruins’
Famine returns to Ethiopia: “The life of the people of Tigray is indescribable”
An appeal from the leader of Tigray on the famine that is engulfing his people
31/12/2023
Tigray’s tug of war: The quest for recovery amidst power struggles
21/12/2023 0 Comments
Government from the Tigrayan community to avert famine
Tigray starves while aid agencies withhold food and the authorities stall on acting against the corrupt
Prime Minister Abiy’s $10 billion palace forces farmers from their lands
Hararis in Harar are being erased and dispossessed
Tigray update by Professor Jan Nyssen – Ghent University
Relief for PM Abiy: repayment of Ethiopia’s $14 billion dollar Chinese debt on hold – for now
Raped during Ethiopia’s war, survivors now rejected by their families
Teetering Ethio-Eritrea relations mount tension in the Horn
Eritrea accuses UAE of stoking war with Ethiopia, appeals to Saudis to intervene
World Food Programme resumes operations in Ethiopia: details of new scheme to prevent theft of aid
Statement by the African Development Bank Group following the illegal arrest of its staff in Ethiopia
A year after the Pretoria agreement, hard work remains for Ethiopia
Are Ethiopia and Eritrea on the Path to War?
Brigade N’hamedu holds discussions in Tigray on how to remove the Eritrean regime
Ethiopia’s credit rating downgrade
Tigray ceasefire anniversary: Ten Western nations call for a national dialogue, withdrawal of Eritrean forces and justice
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 493 – 2 November 2023
President Isaias and PM Abiy divorce. War is likely: It is just a matter of timing
Ethiopia: sending the unemployed to the military
30/10/2023 1 Comment
UN Experts call for ongoing international scrutiny and support for victims in Ethiopia
27/10/2023 0 Comments
Further rumours of a coming war on the Red Sea
“Let every one know the truth” about Eritrea’s war with Tigray
Why war in the Horn of Africa is likely
The British government explains the end of the Commission of Human Rights on Ethiopia
The Horn of Africa faces another potential armed conflict
17/10/2023
The three horsemen of the Tigray war: Mass Killing, Sexual Violence and Starvation
Displacement, horrific violence continue in western Tigray as Amhara forces maintain control
02/09/2023
Exclusive: ‘Rot is so much deeper’ — decades of Ethiopia aid manipulation
Eritrean government’s rising anxiety about resistance in the Eritrean diaspora
Tigray digest by Professor Jan Nyssen
Saudi forces killed hundreds of Ethiopians at Yemen border, report says
21/08/2023
Ethiopia: Abiy’s regime commits state terrorism against the Amhara people
20/08/2023
Italy’s “mystery column” of Eritrean troops during the invasion of Ethiopia, 1935
15/08/2023
Five reasons why Ethiopia is at war with itself, again
An urgent appeal from the people of Irob: we are dying of hunger 14/08/2023
UK: British government “appalled” by human rights violations in Tigray and calls for Eritrean forces to leave
Hard times in Ethiopia: the plight of Eritrean refugees inside Addis and across the country
The World Food Program slowly resumes food aid to Ethiopia after months of suspension and criticism
Abiy’s regime in Ethiopia failed to learn lessons from its dozens of brutal acts and declared war again against its people
“Negligence and complacency”by Ethiopia’s aid partners led to “rampant corruption” on a “scale never seen before”
War-related sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: a community-based study
22/07/2023
The Sexually Violated Women of Tigray Demand Justice
18/07/2023
UN experts urge Ethiopia to halt mass deportation of Eritreans
13/07/2023
African Commission on Human Rights quietly drops Tigray investigation
11/07/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 461 – 10 July 2023
10/07/2023
A call on the African Union to confront the weaknesses in the historic Tigray peace agreement
10/07/2023
War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
09/07/2023
Satellite imagery shows evidence of new graves after Tigray massacres
07/07/2023
Is Abiy Ahmed going down the dictator’s palace road?
06/07/2023
Scientists believe ivory rings found in ancient English burial site were carved in Aksum 1,500 years ago
06/07/2023
Could constitutional reform end Ethiopia’s political forever war?
06/07/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 458 – 29 June 2023
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Why the World Food Programme is determined to take back control of aid distribution in Ethiopia
22/06/2023
Getachew Reda meets World Food Programme to sort out aid resumption
20/06/2023
British politicians hear testimony of the 120,000 Tigrayan women who suffered sexual abuse
19/06/2023
Tigray: “Mr. Getachew, tear down the wall!”
09/06/2023
USAID cuts food aid supporting millions of Ethiopians amid charges of massive government theft
Exclusive: Donor-funded food diversion in Ethiopia ‘coordinated, criminal scheme’; covers seven regions, involves federal and regional governments 08/06/2023
Amharas turning on Abiy are short of Ethiopian allies 07/06/2023
Ethiopia: Behind the World Food Programme apparent resignations 06/06/2023
Rising death rates in Tigray from malnutrition 05/06/2023
Ethiopia: Ethnic Cleansing Persists Despite Tigray Truce 01/06/2023
Tigray: Political Dynamics in Post-Pretoria Agreement Ethiopi 29/05/2023
Ethiopia’s Jews still leaving for Israel 27/05/2023
Updated assessment of civilian starvation deaths during the Tigray war 24/05/2023
The Quest for Peace: Understanding What It Means for Tigray 24/05/2023
Justice for atrocity victims in Ethiopia is a pipedream
A moment in history: Fidel Castro’s visit to Ethiopia 23/05/2023
Ethiopia needs an all-inclusive peace process led by women 13/05/2023
Eritrean troops leaving Tigray, or are they? 02/05/2023
Is peace finally coming to Ethiopia’s Oromia region? 30/04/2023
The disputed maps of Western Tigray – a challenge for Professors Shiferaw and Dagnachew
24/04/2023
Eritrean forces still occupy several woredas and kebeles in Tigray, officials
24/04/2023
It seems a pipe dream to see justice for atrocity crimes in Ethiopia
21/04/2023
UN’s Secretary General’s fury after unprecedented ban on visiting Tigray – apology from PM Abiy
19/04/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 410- 14 April, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 409- 13 April, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 408- 12 April, 2023
Is confusion PM Abiy’s latest strategy?
11/04/2023
As Ethiopian alliances shift, Abiy’s anniversary met by Amhara protests and violence
08/04/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 407- 07 April, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 406- 06 April, 2023
A Tigrayan-Oromo alliance in the making?
Tigray: A Fragile Peace in the Wake of Unspeakable Horrors
Eritrea’s Abraha Kassa visits Ethiopia’s air-force. Remember what happened after Pres Isaias visited it in October 2020?
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 404- 04 April, 2023
Ethiopian government and the Oromo Liberation Army edge towards talks
With a new Tigray leader in place, Amhara dispute comes into focus
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No 400 – 29 March 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 399- 28 March, 2023
The Ethiopian and Eritrean armies deliberately destroyed Tigray’s water sector
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 397- 24 March, 2023
BREAKING NEWS – Council of Archbishops of Tigray appointed Archbishops for Tigrayans abroad
23/03/2023
EEPA, Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No 392 17 March 2023
In-depth Analysis: Addis Mayor’s latest remark reveals widening divergence between Amhara, Oromo ruling class of Prosperity Party. What is at stake?
Deadly Adwa day shows Abiy’s struggle to shift focus from divisive Ethiopian emperor
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No 391, 16 March 2023
Survival in the Remotest Mountains of Tigray
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 390- 15 March, 2023
15/03/2023
An Inclusive Interim Regional Administration with equal representation – a necessity for Tigray
11/03/2023
Tigray’s precarious transition: On the establishment of an Interim Regional Administration
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 387- 10 March, 2023
U.S. Weighs Offering Economic Lifeline to Ethiopia Despite War Atrocities
10/03/2023
Sustaining Peace in Ethiopia
10/03/2023
Uncertainty in the Horn as a wary Eritrea seeks new alliances
09/03/2023
Shield from Magdala – 1868 – in the British Museum
05/03/2023
How Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy lost his Peace Prize08/03/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 385- 07 March, 2023
Oromo Orthodox Split: A Collision Between Politics and Faith
07/03/2023 
TPLF cannot be allowed to monopolize Tigray’s interim government
07/03/2023
600,000 dead – and now what? On the road in Tigray, where a war is over but peace has not yet begun
06/03/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 384- 06 March, 2023
06/03/2023
As Tigray forms an interim government the TPLF excludes the Prosperity Party
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 383- 03 March, 2023
Has the Tigray blockade been lifted? The evidence shows it has not
A drawing of Emperor Theodorus, after the capture of Magdala, 1868
On Shifting Ground: An Appraisal of UK Engagement in Ethiopia
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 382- 02 March, 2023
Internal tensions could destabilize Tigray’s transition
Slaughter on Eve of Ethiopian Peace Draws Accusations of War Crimes
Over 60 human rights groups appeal to the UN to reject Ethiopia’s attempt to halt the investigation into Tigray war abuses
Hundreds massacred in Tigray even as peace deal was being reached
A rift in Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has been healed, but tensions remain
EEPA Situation Report: Horn of Africa, No. 380- 27 February, 2023
Ethiopia attempts to kill off UN human rights investigation into Tigray atrocities
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 379- 24 February, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 378- 23 February, 2023
War and siege inflicted damage on Tigray’s ecosystem
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 377- 22 February, 2023
23/02/2023
First official Italian photograph of the invasion of Ethiopia
22/02/2023
Ethiopia’s Tigray war and the ‘big lie’ behind the century-defining 600,000 civilian deaths
22/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 375- 20 February 2023
21/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 374- 17 February, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 373- 16 February, 2023
16/02/2023
Divisions in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in perspective
15/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 372- 14 February, 2023
14/02/2023
Publication: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War
14/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 371- 13 February, 2023
14/02/2023
Tensions in Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church as demonstrations called for Sunday
11/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 370- 10 February, 2023
10/02/2023
What Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy did when he met France’s President Macron
09/02/2023
How real African solutions now overcome African problems
08/02/2023
The Horn of Africa raised in the UK parliament
08/02/2023
Can Tigray peace pave the way to wider Ethiopian reconciliation?
08/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 367- 07 February, 2023
07/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 366- 06 February, 2023
06/02/2023
As schism deepens, Orthodox Synod slams PM Abiy’s remarks on ongoing crisis point by point, threaten to organize worldwide protest
04/02/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 365- 03 February, 2023
03/02/2023
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Europe’s Stance on Ethiopia
01/02/2023
1.2 million-year-old ‘stone-tool workshop’ uncovered in Ethiopia is oldest ever found
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 362- 31 January, 2023
Photographs of the bombed-out school of Addilal – symbol for three years without schools in Tigray
Tigray’s Forgotten Missile War With Ethiopia and Eritrea
Eritrea’s President Isaias as an obstacle to Ethiopian peace 31/01/2023
Peace deal ending Ethiopia’s Tigray war yet to dispel fear of more atrocities
29/01/2023
The fascinating history of Mussolini’s farming strategy in Ethiopia – and how the patriots defeated it
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 360 – 27 January, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 359 – 26 January, 2023
Guide to the number of deaths in the Tigray war – Prof. Jan Nyssen, Ghent University
26/01/2023
Ethiopia After the War
25/01/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 358 – 25 January, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 357- 24 January, 2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 356- 23 January, 2023
Important letter to the African Union panel regarding Tigray peace
Ethiopian nation-building is haunted by its troubled history
As a Tigrayan, I Choose Peace over War, Justice over Impunity
21/01/2023
Tigrayans Need a Path Home After Abiy’s War
19/01/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn in Africa, No. 353- 18 January, 2023
Falling Like Leaves – The war in Ethiopia and its crimes against civilians
17/01/2023
How Eritrean forces have been re-deployed in Tigray – they have not left
17/01/2023
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 351- 16 January, 2023
16/01/2023
Finally: Merchants bring convoys of goods to Mekelle – teff now more affordable
16/01/2023
Will European Union change policy towards Ethiopia after the visit of the French and German foreign ministers?
15/01/2023
War in Tigray may have killed 600,000 people, peace mediator says
15/01/2023
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EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 350- 13 January, 2023
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War in Tigray: the deaths of others
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EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 347- 10 January, 2023
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EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 346 – 09 January, 2023
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France and Germany send ministers to see whether peace is taking hold in Ethiopia
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A message to foreign commentators on Ethiopian politics
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Eritrea: President Isaias’s forgotten wars
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EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 343- 02 January, 2023
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What’s Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s next move after a dubious truce?
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Ethiopia’s Federal government peacefully takes over Tigray
Eritrea responds to the article by former US Special Envoy to the Horn, Jeffrey Feltman
What was the Tigray war all about?
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