Mehari Taddele Maru

Original article: https://addisstandard.com/op-ed-ending-ethiopias-armed-conflicts-a-modest-proposal/ In my March 5, 2019 article, can Ethiopia make the transit to stability? I discussed in more detail the causes and dynamics of the political changes in Ethiopia, leading to unintended consequences with far-reaching implications for the stability of the country. I also considered five scenarios — Consensus Federalism, Transitional Government, Dictatorship, Confederate ...

Original article at: https://blogs.eui.eu/migrationpolicycentre/the-civil-war-in-ethiopia-death-displacement-and-a-humanitarian-crisis/ On December 09 2020, the Ethiopian government has admitted that it has fired at and arrested UN staff who were visiting refugee camps in Tigrai. Early this month, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called for USD147 million in international support to help refugees from Tigrai, northern Ethiopia. He also called, as did other ...

Original Article at: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/12/4/the-international-community-should-help-end-ethiopias-war/ On Sunday, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of his government’s military offensive on Tigray after Tigrayan forces withdrew from the regional capital, Mekelle. Debretsion Gebremichael, who leads the Tigray regional state and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), however, said in a phone interview with the Associated Press a day later that fighting ...

Original article at: https://blogs.eui.eu/migrationpolicycentre/african-and-european-migration-diplomacy-a-checklist-and-suggested-future-direction/ Andrew Geddes and Mehari Taddele Maru While EU member states and citizens debate the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, it is clear that migration has been, is and will continue to be an integral part of the relations between African and European countries. A ‘strong external dimension’ takes a ...

Original article at: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/africas-scorecard-countering-covid-19-26520 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people who have contracted COVID-19 has surpassed 7.6 million, while the death toll is more than 420,000. In Africa, altogether, there are more than 220,000 confirmed cases with 5,900 deaths. The African Union (AU) has provided a platform on which layers of responsibility extend upwards ...

The first and the second meetings between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the GrandEthiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ever to be led by the African Union (AU) took placeon June 26, 2020, and recently from 2-13 July 2020.On June 27, 2020, the AU issued a communiqué setting out the decisions of themeeting, which was called and ...

Original article at: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/4/26/can-trump-resolve-the-egypt-ethiopia-nile-dam-dispute/ In early February, officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan announced in a joint statement that they had cleared the way for the filling and operation of a disputed mega-dam being built by the Ethiopian government on the Nile River. The statement, which came on the back of months of US-led negotiations, caused many to believe the ...

Original Analysis at: https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/africa-versus-coronavirus-four-much-needed-capabilities For many African countries, prevention of Coronavirus has no alterative as financial and structural demands of treatment far exceed capabilities. Without stricter measures, the infection curve will be exponential and flattening it will take a long time with more deaths. The spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, has now hit almost all African ...

Original Analysis: https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/emergence-another-african-conflict-egypt-ethiopia-and-geopolitics-renaissance-dam Mehari Taddele Maru Very few consider that despite the possibility of conflict or cooperation, such changes in the exploitation of the Nile River resources are due to changing relations and the need to address long-standing unfair and hegemonic approaches to trans-boundary resource sharing. The standoff between the Nile riparian countries Egypt, Sudan ...

Original article at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/enlarging-context-covid-19-europe-and-africa/ Mehari Taddele Maru and Fabrizio Tassinari As the dust on the first brutal phase of the pandemic settles in Europe, containment of the pandemic cannot succeed through unilateral responses. In times of acute crisis such as the present one, it gives some solace to re-read the seminal book by the veteran ...