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City Council Calls for Organized Effort to Take Terrorist TPLF to Int’l Criminal Court

November 10, 2021November 11, 2021User2

A campaign to hold the terrorist TPLF accountable for the heinous ethnic-based Maikadra Massacre at the International Criminal Court should be launched soon, according to Gondar City Administration. A candlelight vigil was held yesterday evening for victims of the Maikadra Massacre in commemoration of the first year of the massacre. Gondar City Council Speaker, Tsegaw […]

LGBT migrants in South Africa: religion can be a blessing, and a curse

November 5, 2021November 6, 2021User2

Moral panics over sexual and gender rights are often shaped by religious beliefs. In many countries, political, cultural and faith leaders use religious rhetoric to justify exclusionary practices and constrict the space available to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists. The politicisation of religion in Africa is now well documented. It is a strategy used to maintain the […]

International Investigation Needed into Abuses in Ethiopia

November 4, 2021November 5, 2021User2

On Wednesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission released a much-anticipated joint report into abuses committed in the first nine months of the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. It finds evidence of serious abuses, some of which may amount to war crimes and crimes against […]

Int’l Investigation Disproves Accusations of Terrorist TPLF, Western Media on Ethiopia

November 4, 2021November 5, 2021User2

A report by an international human rights commission disqualified the accusations hurdled on Ethiopia by terrorist TPLF and its media supporters alleging that the National Defense Forces of Ethiopia have committed genocide in Tigray Region and that the government has used hunger as a political weapon with no tangible evidence. The Joint Investigative Team (JIP) […]

JIT Findings Asserts Accusation of Genocide, Using Starvation as weapon of war Baseless: PM Abiy

November 3, 2021November 4, 2021User2

The findings of joint investigation team (JIT) report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the UN Human Rights Office released on human rights violations in Tigray region have clearly established the claim of genocide as false and utterly lacking of any factual basis, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said. The findings also concluded the […]

No Evidence Proving Use of Starvation as Weapon of War in Tigray: Investigation Team

November 3, 2021November 4, 2021User2

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) drawn from the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the UN Human Rights Office revealed today that there is no evidence which confirms starvation was used as weapon of war in the conflict in Tigray region. The report confirmed that the Tigray Special Forces and allied militia attacked the Northern […]