Author: Gureza

Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Tigest Girma  – Publishers Weekly 20:39 

By Iyana Jones |  Nov 29, 2024 Debut author Tigest Girma is good at keeping secrets. After all, it’s how she started her writing career, quietly typing dystopian stories influenced by Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and Veronica Roth’s Divergent on Wattpad during her teenage years. Following her and her family’s move from their hometown of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to […]

Ethiopian PM blamed for “dead and buried” relation with Eritrea  – Borkena 

November 29, 2024 borkena Toronto – Eritreans Ambassador to South Sudan, Yohannes Teklemichael,  remark about relations with Ethiopia made headlines about Ethiopian news outlets.  With the suspension of 14 weekly Ethiopian Airlines flights to Asmara and reported disconnection of phone lines between the two countries for a few months now, deterioration of the relations between the […]

Ethiopia’s expansionist tendencies are spooking its neighbours  – LSE

Yohannes Woldemariam November 29th, 2024 Ethiopia is seeking greater access to the Red Sea, but indoing so, it is repeating past behaviours that have destabilised the region,writes Yohannes Woldemariam. In its renewed campaign for access to the Red Sea, Ethiopia is threatening to further destabilise the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia already has port access for […]

Eritrean refugees describe police crackdown in Ethiopia  – BBC 

Teklemariam Bekit BBC Tigrinya Eritrean residents in Ethiopia’s capital have reported widespread arrests among their community, sparking fear among refugees and asylum seekers who fled their homes in search of a better life. While not unprecedented, the scale and intensity of the current crackdown in Addis Ababa is significant, with hundreds reportedly detained in recent […]

Ethiopia, Kenya discuss military cooperation 

November 29, 2024 Kenya and Ethiopia to sign memorandum of understanding for defense cooperation Borkena Toronto – Defense Chief of Staff of Ethiopia, Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, and his Kenyan counterpart Charles Muriu Kahariri  this week met in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The Kenyan Defense Chief was appointed to the position in May this year […]