Across Africa, health aid is being weaponized to secure mining deals & health data for US corporations. This extortion reveals that the emperor has no new clothes & must be countered by global outrage supporting African countries in standing against these exploitative bilateral health agreements!

Hello Norway? PM Modi conferred Norway’s highest honour, the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit #India #Norway #Modi www.firstpost.com/world/pm-mod...

In connection to the ongoing unrelenting prosecution of and violence on #Tigrayans in Western #Tigray and across Ethiopia, I spoke recently with @lepoint.fr. www.lepoint.fr/afrique/ethi...

En Éthiopie, la visite de Macron sur fond de guerre oubliée au Tigré

Alors que le président français est à Addis-Abeba, Human Rights Watch dénonce la généralisation des discriminations et des violences à l’encontre des Tigréens restés dans l’ouest de la région.

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#PODCAST | What is happening in Tigray? @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @tekgw.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) about the evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray, and (the lack of) academic freedom to publish on it. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or go here: edu.nl/qaxbb

In a new podcast episode with the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social, my friend @annevanmourik.bsky.social and I discuss the #TigrayGenocide and the systematic assault on the Tigrayan womb — both metaphorically and literally —through rape and,

NIOD@niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#PODCAST | What is happening in Tigray? @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @tekgw.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) about the evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray, and (the lack of) academic freedom to publish on it. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or go here: edu.nl/qaxbb

What is happening in #Tigray? An interview with the wonderful @tekgw.bsky.social Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael from @manchester.ac.uk soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #massviolence #famine #genocide #siege #censorship

NIOD Rewind Episode 48 - Genocide in Tigray: Assault on the Womb, Starvation and Censorship

What is happening in Tigray? In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael (University of Manchester) about the strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tig

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It's my understanding that many rural schools in Tigray have now closed because they can't pay their staff. The Ethiopian government suspended the budget to Tigray back in October 2025. addisstandard.com/news-tigray-...

Study by health researchers in 2024 found that starvation was the leading cause of death in Tigray, Ethiopia after the 2022 ceasefire link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Starvation remains the leading cause of death in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, after the Pretoria deal: a call for expedited action - BMC Public Health

Background People in war-affected areas are more likely to experience excess mortality with hunger. However, information on the causes of death associated with hunger is often nonexistent. The purpose...

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Has globalisation failed? A new ARTE episode featuring GDI's Pritish Behuria has been released asking 'is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?' Watch here: www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

42: The Answer to Almost Everything - Has Globalisation Failed? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English

With wars, financial crises, and energy crises, global trade seems to be suffering. But is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?

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"This is catastrophic."

REPAiR Project@repairproject.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The irony: conservation involving fenced-off 'hard boundaries' can lead to shrinking space for wildlife. @tekgw.bsky.social explored findings from Kenya and Tanzania at our February event on #rangelandmyths about Mobility. #IYRP2026 #pastoralism #conservation

The irony: conservation involving fenced-off 'hard boundaries' can lead to shrinking space for wildlife. @tekgw.bsky.social explored findings from Kenya and Tanzania at our February event on #rangelandmyths about Mobility. #IYRP2026 #pastoralism #conservation

I don't know how I missed this incredible investigative reporting by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social and Ashenafi Endale, illicit mining in Tigray-->funding for another looming war, pollution, and, surprise surprise, foreign investment from Canada + China🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

When Tigray became a ‘Wild West’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim

A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing

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“What happens when atrocities go unnoticed, unpunished, or even tacitly accepted? Impunity does not end violence; it perpetuates it… [A]ctive war has flared up again in Tigray in 2026. This has raised the prospect of a renewed full-scale siege. This is evidenced by recent drone attacks”

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel@tekgw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How did Ethiopia get away with the mass murder of close to a million Tigrayans? In my latest piece for @theconversation.com, I examine the tactics the Ethiopian regime and its allies used to conceal the genocide in Tigray, and evade accountability. theconversation.com/how-to-get-a...

How did Ethiopia get away with the mass murder of close to a million Tigrayans? In my latest piece for @theconversation.com, I examine the tactics the Ethiopian regime and its allies used to conceal the genocide in Tigray, and evade accountability. theconversation.com/how-to-get-a...

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world

The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.

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The Tigray crisis remains largely invisible to the world. "Factors such as race and the peripherality of the region made the Tigray conflict a blind spot in global geopolitics. But these explanations are not sufficient." In @uk.theconversation.com by @tekgw.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qvJzux

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world

The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.

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The TESCREALists I wrote about (Goertzel), teaming up with pedophiles (Epstein), experimenting on five million Ethiopian children through "digital IDs" which they want for harvesting data to train "AI." My worlds colliding in the worst way.

This month, in our #RangelandMyths series, we examine the myth that 'Mobility drives conflict and insecurity'. Read the think piece by Linda Pappagallo: repairproject.org/Blog/myth-mo... Join our online discussion on 26 February with @tekgw.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

Important paper on the Tigray War. Key points: Death toll likely to be larger than 800k and Ethiopia obscured the crisis, creating 'zone of invisibility' to reduce calls for international action : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations

The war in Tigray, Ethiopia, which erupted in November 2020, has been marked by widespread atrocities, including organized massacres, the systematic u…

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The Horn of Africa has been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern history. @tekgw.bsky.social and Hussein Sulieman write about the devastating wars in Ethiopia and Sudan, and how these have reshaped regional dynamics. 🔗 bit.ly/4oxE5OQ

Shifting Contours of Conflict: War and Cross-Border Migration in the Horn of Africa - Global Development Institute Blog

by Tekle Weldemichel (Lecturer in Environment and Development at GDI) and Hussein M. Sulieman (Research Fellow at GDI)  The Horn of Africa (HoA) has, in recent years, been going through one of the mos...

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And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e

Italy probes Sarajevo ‘sniper safaris’: What were they, who was involved?

According to a lawsuit, participants would be flown from Italy to Bosnia where they would pay to shoot people.

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A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

When Tigray became a ‘wild west’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim

A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing

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To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere. Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...

On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time). Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War' Full details & venue address: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...

Travesty lies in the fact that Abiy now appears to be using the TPLF faction’s alleged ties with Eritrea as a pretext to further isolate & besiege what remains of Tigray — despite his own open alliance with the Eri regime to turn Tigray into a wasteland tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...

Tigray as a Death World: Frantz Fanon, colonialism, and the limits of liberation struggles

Ethiopia’s relationship with its constituent peripheries and Tigray in particular can without any doubt be described as colonial—a peculiar example of internal colonialism, in the sense that it is not...

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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPRG4... Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.

The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism

The emergence of Amhara nationalism as a central political trend in Ethiopia can be dated to 2016. It soon gained considerable audience within the Amhara region and beyond. This article analyses a ...

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Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade #politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography Please share and pass on to potentially interested people. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre. "Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life." by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo theconversation.com/starvation-a...

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray

Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

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Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege. Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.

Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂 theconversation.com/starvation-a... #Politics

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray

Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

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