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Details: Written by: Super User; Published: 06 July 2025

Date: 06/07/2025Author: Martin Plaut 0 Comments

By Taha Sakr July 3, 2025 5:00 pm

Fresh armed clashes have erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region between rival Tigrayan factions, raising concerns of renewed intra-regional violence at a time when northern Ethiopia remains fragile. According to local sources, the Tigray Defense Force (TDF), aligned with the Debretsion-led faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has reportedly engaged militarily with another emerging armed group known as the “Tigray Peace Force” (TPF).

Details: Written by: The Guardian; Published: 04 July 2025

Warning: this article contains extremely graphic and distressing testimony and images

Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospect

Photographs and reporting by Ximena Borrazas

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For two years, Tseneat carried her rape inside her. The agony never faded. It attacked her from the inside out. The remnants of the attack stayed in Tseneat’s womb – not as a memory or metaphor, but a set of physical objects:

Eight rusted screws.

A steel pair of nail clippers.

A note, written in ballpoint pen and wrapped in plastic.

“Sons of Eritrea, we are brave,” the note reads. “We have committed ourselves to this, and we will continue doing it. We will make Tigrayan females infertile.”

The objects, revealed by X-ray and surgically extracted by doctors more than two years later, were forced inside Tseneat as she lay unconscious after being gang-raped by six soldiers.

A piece of paper with blue biro writing on it. The note has many fold marks but is now spread out on a table.

A handwritten note by Eritrean soldiers, extracted from the uterus of a rape survivor. Translation: ‘Sons of Eritrea, we are brave. We have committed ourselves to this, and we will continue doing it. We will make Tigrayan females infertile. We are still determined to retaliate for 1998’. Photograph: Ximena Borrazas

Details: Written by: https://addisstandard.com; Published: 01 July 2025

Addis Abeba – A newly released report presents detailed evidence indicating that Eritrea’s leaders actively planned and prepared for the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region well before hostilities erupted.

The report also found evidence indicating that the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) engaged in and orchestrated industrial-scale looting operations during and after the war in the Tigray region.

Details: Written by: Fesseha Nair; Published: 01 July 2025

In the past and in our generation, the people in Ethiopia and Eritrea have been continuously afflicted by difficult hardships and anxieties arising from on going wars and threats by leaders being dictating their people to stay in power all the time. Peace is not the absence of war but requires must be built up continuously.

The 2018 peace agreement between the two leaders, thus between the Eritrean president, Essayas and the prime minister, Abiyu Ahmed was not true peace agreement for the common good to both the Eritrean and Ethiopian people. Genuine peace can only be attained by a firm determination of both the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea based on mutual respect and dignity, for these reasons, both the Ethiopian and Eritrean civil society organization must come together, practice the truth in equality, fraternity and democracy and join with all true peacemakers.

Details: Written by: Super User; Published: 20 June 2025

Date: 20/06/2025Author: Martin Plaut 0 Comments

Source: Blue Revolution Front

Political Charter

Our guiding principles for the National charter:

Our guiding principles lay a strong foundation for a just and inclusive national charter. They reflect a commitment to human dignity, cultural heritage, and equality, fundamental pillars in shaping a fair and cohesive society.

These guiding principles have far-reaching implications for governance, society, and individual rights. Here’s how they might shape policies and everyday life:

Details: Written by: Filimon Suim www.meforum.org; Published: 13 June 2025

People crowd the streets of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea’s dictator who has ruled the country since its 1993 independence, is almost 80 years old and rumors continue to abound about his increasingly frequent health crises.

Much of the economy relies on mandatory and indefinite conscription, basically state-sanctioned slavery.

Under his tenure, Eritrea squandered its potential. Much of the economy relies on mandatory and indefinite conscription, basically state-sanctioned slavery. China is Eritrea’s only meaningful trade partner. Isaias has played a crucial role in destabilizing the region. What began as a friendly relationship with Ethiopia ended in a war over the border region near Badme. Up to 100,000 people died in the 1998-2000 war that locals derided as “two bald men fighting over a comb,” due to Badme’s isolation and economic irrelevance. More recently, Isaias involved himself in the Ethiopian civil war, sending troops (and Somali conscripts ostensibly in Eritrea for training) into Ethiopia to help crush the country’s ethnic Tigray, a conflict that killed upwards of a quarter-million people. This latest intervention also earned Eritrea enhanced U.S. sanctions.

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