MINILIK SALSAWI

  We are ready to send our negotiators to South Africa - Dr. Debretsion G/Michael  The TPLF announced this evening that it is ready to participate in the peace talks in South Africa.   TPLF also stated that we are determined to resolve the conflict peacefully.   In the letter Dr. Debretsion G/Michael wrote to the African Union; They said that "ceasing the conflict" which they say will help the peace process, is the main part of the negotiation agenda.  "Our negotiators are ready to send to South Africa," they announced. In their letter,  they asked if they would give us an explanation on some issues related to the fact that the invitation was sent to us earlier.  These are:   - Whether additional actors will be invited to the peace talks as participants, observers or guarantors; - - What kind of roles are intended to be given to the international community;  - Logistics for the negotiating team; Dr. Debretsion asked in his let...

Three men were stabbed at an Ethiopian Orthodox church in the Oakland hills on Sunday morning, authorities said. The stabbing was reported just after 9 a.m. at the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Mekane Selam Medhane Alem Cathedral, located in the 4100 block of Mountain Boulevard near Highway 13, officials said. When police officers arrived to the church, they found three men with minor to moderate injuries, Oakland police spokesperson Candance Keas said. The three victims are residents of Oakland, San Francisco and Richmond, authorities said. Their identities were not immediately released. Witnesses at the church apparently detained the individual who stabbed the three victims, and police arrested him. He was described as a man from San Francisco, authorities said. Keas said officials were still investigating what led to the incident. It was not immediately clear if the suspect was a ...

 Ethiopian civil war : TPLF Fire or Leave ?   The TPLF rebel authorities in Tigray say they have withdrawn their troops from areas they occupied in the neighbouring Amhara region to the south to face a joint offensive by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces further north. After a five-month truce, fighting resumed at the end of August between the Ethiopian federal government - backed by forces and militias from the Amhara region - and the Tigrayan rebels. The Asmara regime, a sworn enemy of the Tigray rebel leaders, is also lending a hand to the Ethiopian troops, as it did during the first phase of the conflict, which began in November 2020, during which Eritrean troops were accused of multiple cases of abuse. "A change in the location and direction (of our forces) was deemed necessary to deal with the joint invasion forces... On the southern front, we have therefore evacuated the areas of the Amhara region where we had entered," said the "central command" of the rebel for...

Satellite images show the mobilization this month of military forces in towns on either side of Ethiopia’s northern border with Eritrea, a private US company said on Wednesday. Reuters could not independently verify the contents of the images showing reported military activity in the aftermath of the breakdown on August 24 of a five-month ceasefire in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.   Tigray forces have battled Ethiopia’s federal army and its allies, including Eritrean troops and fighters from neighboring Ethiopian regions, over the course of a nearly two-year war. Images collected on September 26 show military forces, vehicles and artillery positions in the town of Shiraro, near Tigray's northern border with Eritrea, according to Maxar Technologies Inc, which collects and publishes satellite imagery of the region. The images from Eritrea were taken on September 19 and show the deployment of heavy weaponry in the town of Serha, near ...

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  When we celebrate the Feast of the Cross, it should be by solving our problems with reconciliation and forgiveness - His Holiness Abune Mathias Abune Matias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, called for "fighting with reconciliation, wrongdoing with forgiveness". Abune Mathias, in his speech during the celebration of Demera festival in Addis Ababa Cross Square today, conveyed the message "let us pray together" for peace, love and unity to be removed from the conflict in Ethiopia. Abune Matias preached the importance of reconciliation in his speech when the Demera Cross was celebrated in the presence of followers of the faith, the Federal Government and Addis Ababa city government officials. Abune Mathias said in his speech that human beings can live by "reconciliation through reconciliation, injustice through forgiveness, poverty through development, infidelity through religion." Abune Matias said, "There is no better option th...