Redeeming the Ethio-US Relations as the World is Heading Towards Great Power Rivalry
By mid-October 2022, two of the world’s leading economies, the US and China, have unveiled their strategic political documents...
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- Sep 12
- 8 min
Why do Ethiopians Blame the US and Western Nations for the Prolonged War in Ethiopia?
Northern Ethiopia has been a war zone for the past twenty two months. Several atrocities have been committed, and more than three million...
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- Aug 21
- 3 min
The Premeditated "Tigray-Genocide" Cyberwarfare Against Ethiopia in the Age of Social Media
A team of scientists and data analysts at GETFACTet investigated social media data to find the origin and trending of the hashtag that...
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- Apr 25
- 5 min
The Rise of Ethnic Extremism in Ethiopia is an Opportunity for Failure
Do the current boxes of ethnic regions represent the diverse nature of Ethiopians’ identities? Thousands of identities are possible if we...
2,788 views
- Apr 15
- 5 min
Rigging the Game: Western Attempts to Marginalize Ethiopian Sovereignty
Why does the West want to dismiss an already existing credible international investigation regarding the current conflict in Ethiopia and...
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- Mar 27
- 3 min
A Joint Statement of Ethiopian Advocacy Groups on S3199 Drafted Bill
We, undersigned Ethiopian-Americans and civic organizations, independent media, and task forces in the US, hereby protest and oppose the...
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- Mar 13
- 4 min
Data on US Foreign Policy Gives Foresight on the Outcome of H.R.6600 Bill
The looming H.R.6600 bill has enormous consequences for Ethiopia. If passed, it will execute the Biden Administration’s foreign policy...
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- Mar 6
- 3 min
Supporting the H.R.6600 Bill is to Jeopardize the Struggle of Welkait, Tsegede, and Humera
The H.R.6600 bill brings serious long term consequences for Ethiopians, and those suffering from the current conflict in Ethiopia will be...
1,724 views
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Unity was the Heart of Adwa and is Still Ethiopia’s Source of Hope
For centuries Ethiopia has been a unique force of African optimism and a firm symbol of resistance against colonialism. When one begs the...
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- Feb 20
- 3 min
Amnesty Reports TPLF Rebels’ Shocking War Crimes While H.R.6600 Bill Emboldens the Rebels
As congressman Tom Malinowski of New Jersey introduced the H.R.6600 bill to target and sanction Ethiopians on February 4 2022, Amnesty...
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- Feb 10
- 3 min
Why H.R. 6600 Bill is Dangerous to Ethiopians and Why We Need to Reject It
On February 4, 2022, a bill was drafted by Rep. Malinowski (D-NJ 7th District), H.R. 6600, that aims to impose sanctions and challenge...
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- Jan 30
- 2 min
Disarming TPLF is the only way to secure peace deal in Ethiopia
Photo credit to Maria Cerdan More than a year after the TPLF insurgents launched a military campaign on the Ethiopian Defense Force in...
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 min
Letter to the UN Human Rights Council Special Session - Dec. 17, 2021
Send a letter to the UN Human Rights Special Session: https://linktr.ee/getfactet As you convene a Special Session of the Human Rights...
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
TPLF Weaponized Hunger by Blocking Humanitarian Aid
Heat map shows TPLF triggered conflicts along the Afar border and within the Afar region blocking routes for humanitarian assistance...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
Demonstrators call for end of U.S. foreign policy in Ethiopia amid civil war
Ethiopia has been in a civil war for over a year with former governing party Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Demonstrators outside the...
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- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Is Alex de Waal an agent for TPLF insurrectionist group or a peacemaker?
For years, Alex de Waal, a professor at Tufts University, has glorified the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF), and has emboldened...
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- Nov 27, 2021
- 4 min
Even Clergymen were not Spared in the Chena Massacre by the TPLF
Ethiopia has been suffering greatly at the hands of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) since the rebellion of November 2020,...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 6 min
Abiy’s Pan Africanism Spirit Under Threat
In Africa, the cradle of humankind, interactions with foreign powers have historically only served to reduce freedom and independence....
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- Nov 9, 2021
- 4 min
TPLF rebel group in Ethiopia raped hundreds of women as a weapon of war
"My children were right there watching as I was raped." Account of a rape victim in Northern Ethiopia. On the night of Aug. 16, 2021, the...
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- Nov 9, 2021
- 6 min
Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia: A Letter to Gerry Connolly, Congressman of Virginia’s 11th District
The history of Ethiopia is rich and complex. Ethiopia has endured countless regimes of oppression. Ethiopia is a country composed of over...
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- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Failure to Stand for Democracy in Ethiopia Has Weakened Democracy Worldwide
In the post-Covid world, Western democracies have lamented the absence of commitment to the collective good – “shared common values” –...
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- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Thousands victimized by sexual violence as war in northern Ethiopia persists
EXCLUSIVE: Four months after the Ethiopian government called a cease-fire, violence still reigns across northern Ethiopia, leaving...
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- Oct 26, 2021
- 4 min
The conundrum: why the talks of expelling Ethiopia from AGOA
The Biden administration is threatening to delist Ethiopia from AGOA by the end of October 2021, supposedly to avert an escalating civil...
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- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
Statistical Understanding of the Disparity in Media Coverage of the Conflict in Ethiopia
The media blackout and the negative coverage of Ethiopia by the mainstream media has resulted in a cascading effect, leading astray not...
651 views
- Oct 17, 2021
- 5 min
Survey on the Ethiopian Government’s Response and Media on the Current Conflict
Over the last nine months, consumers of international news outlets may have seen stories about atrocities and humanitarian crises in...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 4 min
Do the U.S. and Western Nations Bear Responsibility for the Atrocities Committed by TPLF?
Northern Ethiopia has been a war zone for the past eleven months. Several atrocities have been committed, and more than a million people...
750 views
- Sep 24, 2021
- 5 min
Ethiopia at a point of critical juncture
Ethiopia holds a profound cultural significance for the black diaspora as one of the world’s oldest black independent nations. It has...
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- Sep 22, 2021
- 1 min
Ethiopia’s Conflict: Will Negotiations With the TPLF Work?
An eerie parallel can be drawn between the American Civil War of the 19th century and the present-day predicament Ethiopia is facing. At...
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- Sep 21, 2021
- 1 min
Ethnonationalism, imperialism and the working class in Ethiopia
Since November last year, Ethiopia has been fighting a devastating civil war with the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front. Hibist Kassa...
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- Sep 16, 2021
- 1 min
Horn of Africa: TPLF sympathizers use infiltrators for its destabilizing propaganda action
In order to understand what has been happening in the Horn of Africa in recent months, it is necessary to start from a simple yet hidden...
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- Sep 12, 2021
- 1 min
After destroying Somalia and Sudan, Democrats-led America has its eyes set on Ethiopia
Donald Trump is the only American President in the 21st century who didn’t start a war in any part of the world. Both Bush and Obama...
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- Sep 12, 2021
- 1 min
Getting It Wrong in Ethiopia’s Tigray
The Defense Post’s August 18 op-ed by Elizabeth Hume and Leslie Mitchell What Happened to ‘We Are the World?’ Ethiopia’s Escalating...
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