Mehari Taddele Maru

Originally Posted on: Democracy in Africa By Kjetil Tronvoll & Mehari Taddele Maru After two years of ravaging war, the Tigray Regional State’s government, represented by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the Federal Government of Ethiopia, reached an Agreement for Lasting Peace through the Permanent Cessation of Hostilities (CoHA). The agreement prescribes that “the ...

Originally Published on Addis Standard: https://addisstandard.com/open-letter-to-members-of-the-au-high-level-panel/ HE Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta CGH. HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR. HE Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Dear Members of the AU-High Level Panel, I am writing this letter to add my voice to those that have already expressed concern about the continued violation of human rights in Tigray. These violations include ...

Originally Posted on EUI News This is the third war in Tigray in his lifetime. Mehari Taddele Maru narrates his story while waiting to board a train on the East Coast of the United States. In the background, Americans shuffle around the coffee shop with their lattes. Born and raised in Tigray, the northernmost region ...

Originally Published on The Elephant It has been almost three months now since the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed the Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) to end Ethiopia’s Tigray war that has led to over 600,000 deaths. The Biden administration described the agreement as a momentous step, while ...

Originally Published on Trends Research and Advisory Migration and mobility dynamics vary in and across countries and regions of the continent.[1] Since 2000, the number of African migrants living outside Africa and those migrating within Africa has increased significantly. The number of African migrants outside their country of origin has almost doubled since 2010 to ...

Originally posted at EUI News This is the third war in Tigray in his lifetime. Mehari Taddele Maru narrates his story while waiting to board a train on the East Coast of the United States. In the background, Americans shuffle around the coffee shop with their lattes. Born and raised in Tigray, the northernmost region ...

Published at Foreign Policy Many Tigrayans seem to believe that Tigray got the short end of the stick in the recent peace agreement signed last month in Pretoria, South Africa.  More than 5.2 million Tigrayans still desperately need unimpeded, rapid, unconditional, and sustained delivery of humanitarian aid. Despite the agreement, civilians are still being killed and ...

Published at Al Jazeera Opinion The Pretoria deal to end the war on Tigray does little for the victims of the violence who want justice. Its provisions on accountability for criminal atrocities are too loosely formulated. The agreement mentions that the Ethiopian government will adopt “a comprehensive national transitional justice policy aimed at accountability, ascertaining the ...

Published at Addis Standard On November 2, 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GoE) government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (the Pretoria deal). Ten days later came the Declaration of the Senior Commanders on the Modalities for the Implementation of the Pretoria ...

Published at Lawfare Institute The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will be held next week, more than eight years after the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit was held in Washington, D.C., in August 2014 under the Obama administration. During the Trump administration, no such summit was organized. The Biden administration aims to revive this forum from Dec. 13 ...