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The coup in Gabon has been compared to the coups that have swept across West Africa since 2020.
While there are similarities it is probably incorrect to compare them too closely – even if they have shaken the African Union and West African leaders’ commitment to see the end of military seizures of power.
In Giessen, Stockholm and Edmonton there were violent demonstrations against Eritrean “cultural festivals”. Research shows: The festivals are propaganda events in disguise. Research that probably prevented a festival in the Swiss Canton of Bern.
Raphael Rohner 29.08.2023
Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes.
DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF SYRIA EARTHQUAKE EXACERBATED BY LEGACY OF ATROCITIES
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks struck southeastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February, causing massive devastation to a region already desolated by nearly twelve years of conflict and atrocities. The death toll has surpassed 35,000 while the search for survivors continues. On 14 February the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 8.8 million people in Syria have been affected by the earthquake.
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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
ETHIOPIA AND THE TIGRAY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION FRONT (TPLF)
It is not hard to see why the battle of Adwa on 1 March 1896 between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy is held in such regard. With the battle of Isandlwana in January 1879, when the Zulu army attacked and annihilated a British army, killing 800 British soldiers and taking nearly 1,000 rifles and ammunition, it is a rare example of an African army defeating a European power.
Italian General Oreste Baratieri knew he was outnumbered. But he seriously
underestimated his Ethiopian opponents--and overestimated the merits of his own battle
plan.
by Greg Blake
Of all the African powers, only the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia remained completely
free from European domination by the end of the 19th century. This was no accident of
history; Ethiopia secured its sovereignty by inflicting a decisive and humiliating defeat
upon the Italian invaders at Adowa (or Adwa) on March 1, 1896. The battle at Adowa
was, at the time, the greatest defeat inflicted upon a European army by an African army
since the time of Hannibal, and its consequences were felt well into the 20th century. As
an example of colonial warfare on an epic scale, it cannot be surpassed. As an example of
the twin follies of arrogance and underestimation of one's enemies, it should never be
forgotten.