The civil war in Ethiopia: death, displacement and a humanitarian crisis

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 ...

Ethiopia’s war is threatening domestic and regional stability

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 ...

African and European migration diplomacy: a checklist and suggested future direction

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 ...

Africa’s Scorecard in Countering Covid-19

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 Nile Rivalry and Its Peace and Security Implications: What Can the African Union Do?

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 ...

Can Trump resolve the Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dam dispute?

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 ...

Africa Versus Coronavirus: Four Much-Needed Capabilities

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 ...

The Emergence of Another African Conflict: Egypt, Ethiopia and Geopolitics of the Renaissance Dam

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 ...

Enlarging the context on COVID-19: Europe and Africa

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 ...

Localising migration diplomacy in Africa? : Ethiopia in its regional and international setting

The paper analyses African-European diplomatic relations on migration. It looks closely at the ideas and practices that inform migration relations between the African Union and the European to explore wider links between migration diplomacy and migration governance to assess divergent African and European understandings of migration governance and the diffusion of migration issues into domestic ...