TERROR IN TIGRAY – THE ETHIOPIAN REFUGEE CRISIS TRT: 25:33 Topic Banner: Director/Reporter: Heather Murdock Supervising Editor: Elizabeth Arrott Supervising Producer/Video Editor: Jacquelyn De Phillips Animation: Brian Williamson Director of Photography: Yan Boechat Map: Um Rakouba Camp, Sudan; Tigray, Ethiopia Main characters: 5 females; 6 males)) ((MUSIC/NATS)) ((VO)) What would it take for you to […]
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Facebook’s ‘Dangerous Individuals and Organizations’ list concerns Oromo users in Ethiopia
Facebook’s secret blacklist of Dangerous Individuals and Organizations (DIO) was leaked on October 12, 2021. Among the list of 4,000 banned entities which includes hate groups, criminals, and terrorist organizations, is the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) which Facebook categorized as a “violent Non-state actor.” Many Oromo Facebook users claim that Facebook is also censoring and silencing Oromo activists […]
East Africa Food Security Alert: October 27, 2021
Worsening drought threatens Horn of Africa as conflict-driven emergency persists in northern Ethiopia The Horn of Africa region faces its third consecutive belowaverage rainfall season since late 2020, which will likely intensify ongoing drought and significantly worsen food insecurity through at least mid-2022. Multiple regional and global forecast models concur that October to December (OND) […]
UNHCR: Northern Ethiopia Update, 25 October 2021
Background and key developments As the Tigray conflict approaches its first anniversarythe overall security and access situation remains complex and fluid. New internal displacement occurs on a day-to-day basis. Both, intra-regional new displacements as well as displacements from Afar and Amhara regions have been reported. Intra-regional displacements have been tracked with an emphasis on displacements […]
Impact of Refugees on Hosting Communities in Ethiopia: A Social Analysis
Key Findings Background As of March 30, 2020, Ethiopia was hosting 758,199 registered refugees and asylum seekers, making it the second largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. Most of these refugees (about 99 percent) come from four countries: South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan. Ethiopia is in the process of making far-reaching changes to its refugee […]
Ethiopia: Flash Analysis and Prediction (26 October 2021)
UN air flights into Mekelle will be suspended due to the risk to aircraft from indiscriminate fire as the Ethiopian government steps up airstrikes, further stretching humanitarian support in Tigray The UN suspended all flights into Mekelle, the regional capital of Tigray, on 22 October, following instructions from the Mekelle airport control tower to abort […]