Today is Africa Pretrial Detention Day!

To the tens of thousands who suffered in the dungeons during the war and after in the Ethiopia region.

Many were brutally murdered and most of them have neither been tried nor sentenced while the world helplessly watched.…

I understand the temptations.., but such statements risk legitimising the ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation of the last three years.

Nothing new, Italy’s ties with the Eritrean regime persisted even before the EU foolishly assumed a sort of ‘pragmatic’ engagement with Asmara, by extension accommodating Isaias’ totalitarian impulses through aid, will lead to the improvement in the daily lives of the masses and…

On the top of fomenting violence all over the country Abiy has lately commenced war propaganda (a violation of the Pretoria Deal) and his interest to continue a “tight squeeze” on Tigray also means that the needle would not move an inch in terms of implementing the COHA. The…

International particularly Western policy on the Horn of Africa suffers from structural stupidity;the propensity to invest diplomatic weight in the service of prevailing political (dis) order which only helps to legitimize and reinforce the gangsters at the Center, ultimately…

It is clearly impossible to identify a birthdate for high treason globally but in Ethiopia it emerged in 2018. The Ethiopian regime is vociferously endorsing the killing of civilians and occupation of Ethiopian territories by Eritrea just because it hates a section of its “own”…

Tigray’s problems lie in its predictability, and the Americans may still be powerful but less thoughtful.

Complacency over the Pretoria Deal particularly Abiy's ill-disposed de facto annexation of Western Tigray is dangerous. Alarm bells should have been ringing but neither the African Union nor the US are releasing any statement about it.

Delighted to share that Africa Week 2024, organised by the African Leadership Centre African Leadership Centre at King’s College London, will be held in-person and online from March 4-8.

Humanitarian Ambivalence
The negligence and vacillation of international aid organisations in dealing with the massive starvation in Tigray can be seen as reflecting a Humanitarian Ambivalence. The very language they use to justify slow movement of aid blaming all politicians and…

This is a rehearsal for a second phase of genocide.

As anticipated, the Abiy Famine has pushed Tigray to the edge of calamity, and unfortunately it is much more than that. The famine is not only largely manufactured by him, he also insists it is pushed to its intended…

Politics in Tigray is more interesting for all the wrong reasons, and the signs are not reassuring. But, at least, there is politics, with ideological and strategic severity and visible political contestation in its organised manifestations. Critical issues are being confronted…