16 private and state banks have reopened their branches in Tigray on Saturday, offering a financial lifeline to cash-starved residents and businesses 12-day after a conflict between Ethiopia’s government and forces in the country’s Tigray region started. Tigray Regional state…
By Steven Uanna Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part memoir of an American who grew up in Addis Ababa from 1958-1961. The author recounts a series of events that occurred during his childhood, his experiences and…
The Ethiopian government said rockets fell in the vicinity of Bahir Dar airport and in Azezo parts of Gondar last night. A new Facebook page managed by the Prime Minister’s Office disclosed that the rockets attack caused minor damage near…
Tigray special forces killed several civilians in the northwestern town of Maikadra before the federal forces secured the town, two Amhara region political parties said on Wednesday. Maikadra, located near Humera town, along the borders with Sudan and Ethiopia, has…
By Steven Uanna My Childhood in Addis Ababa 1958 – 1961 Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part memoir of an American who grew up in Addis Ababa from 1958-1961. The author recounts a series of events…
House decides to establish an interim administration in Tigray Kirakir, a village town in Tsegedie Woreda of Central Gondar Zone of Amhara region, where fighting took place on Wednesday, appeared calm on Friday morning, residents told Deutsche Welle Amharic. On…
Debretsion Gebremichael, Tigray’s regional president, said there are clashes on the southwestern part of Tigray along with the Amhara region border. Speaking on Tigray region’s television Thursday morning two days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered military operations there in…
By Steven Uanna My Childhood in Addis Ababa 1958 – 1961 The year was 1958. I was four years old and living outside of Washington DC in Springfield Forest, Virginia. That’s across Franconia Road from Robert E. Lee High School.…
Lawyers for Jawar Mohammed et al said that they are receiving threats and other forms of pressure from various quarters. A representative of a 13-member joint defense group defending Jawar and 22 other individuals arrested in a relation to a…
Peter Gill, in his book, Ethiopia and Foreigners: Ethiopia since the Live Aid (Oxford University Press, 2010), describes Professor Mesfin Wolde-Mariam as “a formidable fighter in every cause he has adopted.” Excerpts: At the outset of his career it was…