MINILIK SALSAWI

War in Tigray may have killed 600,000 people, peace mediator says The brutal civil war in northern Ethiopia may have killed as many as 600,000 people, making it one of the world’s deadliest conflicts of recent times, according to the African Union’s lead mediator in the peace talks that ended the two-year conflict. “The number of people killed was about 600,000,” former Nigerian president and African Union envoy Olusegun Obasanjo told the Financial Times in an interview. He recalled that on November 2 last year, the day the peace agreement was signed in Pretoria, Ethiopian officials said: “We have stopped 1,000 deaths every day.” Fighting broke out in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in November 2020 after Addis accused Tigrayan fighters of attacking the federal army and spread across the neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions. The US and former Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, played a leading role in the peace talks, but Obasanjo was also an important medi...

US President Joe Biden has nominated a diplomat to serve as an ambassador for his country's embassy in Ethiopia. President Biden nominated for Ambassador; Irvin Jose Masinga, who is serving as the First Deputy Secretary of the Bureau of African Affairs at the US Department of State.   It was announced by the White House yesterday, Tuesday, December 25, that Irvin Masinga was engaged to work as the US ambassador to Ethiopia. 2015 in a statement. Yesterday's statement. Joe Biden, including an individual who will be the US Deputy Representative to the United Nations; It was announced that seven diplomats were nominated for the post.   It was mentioned in the statement that President Biden submitted the list of his candidate diplomats for approval by the US Senate. If the US Senate approves the appointment of Irvin Masinga; It means that the US Embassy in Ethiopia, which has been headed by the "Charge de Affair" since February 2014, will have a full-fledged amba...

Uhuru Kenyatta, Olisegun Obasanjo, Workneh Gebeyehu and ambassadors of 32 countries entered Mekele.   Former President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, former President of Nigeria and current Special Envoy of the African Union for the Horn of Africa Olisegun Obasanjo, Secretary General of IGAD Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu and other parties who participated in the peace agreement entered Mekele today.   When they arrived at the Alula Aba Nega International Airport in Mekele, they were welcomed by Dr. Debretsion G/Michael and other leaders. East African Inter-Governmental Development (IGAD) Secretary General Workneh Gebeyehu and ambassadors of 32 countries arrived in Mekele today.     The IGAD Spokesperson's Office announced that Workneh entered Mekele City to launch the joint monitoring and verification system established under the agreement to end the war in Ethiopia.     In addition, the ambassadors of African and European countries, including the British ambassador...

The shameful and sad judicial process in Ethiopia   The most dangerous is the illegal way of trial in which the Ethiopian justice police and judges judge as they wish. The trial below is a case where a lawyer was beaten by a political gun and sentenced to four months for violating the law. Read the story very well that Ethiopian judges have made against the Lawyer before a day.   The most dangerous is the illegal way of trial in which the Ethiopian justice police and judges judge as they wish. The trial below is a case where a lawyer was beaten by a political gun and sentenced to four months for violating the law. This is what we heard from his lawyer brother. When I entered the court premises, we met a judge who was my greeter. How can you shout at Amhara when you keep saying that you will fight for Oromo until today? I had two appointments. The first appointment was my turn and I was called and left. I was reading a book while I left the courtroom until the second ...

It was discovered that more than 30 Amhara natives were killed by the special forces of the Oromia region in the eastern Welega Kiremu district in the morning. The targeted attack mostly on ethnic Amhara people were carried out on Friday at 7AM in Kiremu district by the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA).The attack as a ‘state terror attack’ in which the Oromia Special Forces participated using heavy weapons. This number of deaths was recorded in only one place and it was pointed out that it was not possible to know the number of children, women and elderly people who were killed by the security forces who were fleeing for their lives.     The special forces of the Oromia region opened fire on more than 60,000 IDPs who were sheltering in a kebele named Haro Addisalem in East Wolega Zone, Gida Kiremu District, from the morning of today, December 14/2015 AD, and more than 30 Amhara natives were killed in one place alone, according to eyewitnesses who were fleeing for thei...

Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will travel to Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region next week as part of the northern Ethiopia war peace process. The disclosure was made during a press briefing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on Thursday by Kenyatta who is mediating peace talks between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) Kenyatta made the statement during the ongoing second senior commanders meeting between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF on the implementation of the Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA) signed last month in Pretoria, South Africa. The latest meeting started on Tuesday. “The parties have been negotiating for the last two months and we’ve agreed the true statement they need to make will be the statement they will make when we’re in Mekelle in the next few days, observing and verifying actions. Because, documents are one thing, what we want now is deliverables and this is wh...

Recently in Addis Ababa, student protests and violence have been observed in limited schools. The students protested against the hanging of the Oromia flag and the singing of the national anthem in Addis Ababa schools. But the city administration is saying that behind the students' hooket is a political conspiracy. In Addis Ababa city administration, since last week, students have been protesting against the hanging of the flag of the Oromia region in schools and the singing of the Oromia anthem. In the same conflict, which spread from school to school, bodily injuries and property damage also occurred. The students who came to the protest square said that we will not accept the hoisting of the flag or the singing of the national anthem. On Monday 12 December, Lydia Girma, Head of the Addis Abeba City Peace and Security Administration Bureau, announced that security forces in the city detained 72 individuals on allegations that they "were working to instigate violence...