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World Peace Foundation @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social · 22h

From 2020–2022 in #Tigray, war & blockades turned hunger into a weapon, creating a man-made #famine & #genocide. The dehumanization of Tigrayans & invisibility of their experiences were their own forms of violence. Naming & recording this is vital for #accountability.

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Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation

Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 22h

Famine in Tigray: Hunger and Humiliation

Read the Memo here
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Famine in Tigray: Hunger and Humiliation - World Peace Foundation

Famine in Tigray was not only about biological deprivation but also about humiliation and dehumanization, including Tigray's middle class.

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 22h

In a blog, Birhan & I reflect,
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."

Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 22h

"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."

Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA

Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation

Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 22h

"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."

Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA

Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation

Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 22h

In a new article for @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social, GDI's Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the silenced story of urban hunger that has accompanied Tigray's war, famine and genocide.

Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 11d

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215
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INVESTIGATION
The Djiboutian massacre
Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its
border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists.
Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of
the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s
tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity.
Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters.
zecharias zelalem
On 30 January this year, a drone manned
from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a
funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote,
semi-arid village near the Ethiopia
Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a
second bomb dropped. And then a third.
At least eight people were killed,
including three children. Several
others were injured. Given the village’s
remoteness, the incident might have
gone unreported if graphic images of
the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian
social media.
A statement from the Djibouti’s
defence ministry said the drone struck
rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(Frud), a Djiboutian political party with
a military wing. It has been fighting for
Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s.
The Afar are a community split by the
colonial border separating Ethiopia,
Djibouti, and Eritrea.
“Eight terrorists were neutralised on
site,” said a Djibouti military statement.
“Unfortunately, collateral damage
among Djiboutian civilians in the area
has been documented.”
International media, including Voice
of America, Agence France Presse, and
Radio France Internationale reported
this version of events.
Now, new findings from an open
In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was
injured in the drone strike.
source investigation by The Continent
reveal a different reality.
The bombs landed inside Ethiopia,
not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed
fighters – were killed. That distinction
matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again
tolerating a foreign military targeting its
own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during
the Tigray conflict.
A transparent lie
Even before the ink could dry on the
Djiboutian military’s statement, The
Addis Standard and human rights groups
in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike
had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s
Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an
adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl
Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports
in now-deleted social media posts.
The Continent got to work to figure out
what really happened. Over the course
of eight months, we collected eyewitness
testimonies, interviewed human rights
activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and
examined images and footage from the
strike. Our findings align with those of
Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed
Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the
site of the strike.
The ammunition residue found on the
night of the strike confirms the bomb
was manufactured by Roketsan, a state
run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye.
Former US army explosives expert
Trevor Ball identified t…

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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · Sep 8

The economist just cited my Master's Thesis (!) on developmental authoritarianism in this piece: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms

In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · Sep 4

In this post @sndeall.bsky.social joins the dots between #MineAction #FoodSecurity and #ClimateChange - it's vital that we continue to reassess the risks posed by explosive remnants of war in light of new understanding and environmental risks theconversation.com/how-unexplod...

How unexploded bombs cause environmental damage – and why climate change exacerbates the problem

One of the main ways conflict leads to environmental harm is by leaving behind unexploded weapons and ammunition.

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Felix Mantz @fmantz101.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania - Felix Mantz, 2025

Land grabbing is a persistent and highly dynamic global phenomenon whereby people's power over territories are alienated through multiple and ever-changing...

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Felix Mantz @fmantz101.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The condition in Tigray today is such that the people are subjected to life-threatening circumstances that render them the “living dead,” trapped in a state of extreme precarity and exposed to various forms of premature death"
by @tekgw.bsky.social

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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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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · Aug 19

My latest with the Global Observatory, on the need for urgent action in #Tigray: theglobalobservatory.org/2025/08/urge...

Urgent Action Is Needed to Prevent Tigray from Sliding Back into War - IPI Global Observatory

The current state of “no war no peace” in northern Ethiopia seems to be preserved only by the rainy season’s predictable afternoon showers and relatively chill air. Tigrayans are making anxious prepar...

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · Aug 15

Tigray and much of what is today Northern Ethiopia was thoroughly destroyed and looted by the fascist army.

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The Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the situation in Malta in 1936

Italy used chemical weapons against Ethiopian forces during its invasion of Abysinia. In fact, it used such weapons in the Battle of Shire (February 29-March 2, 1936), the Battle of Maychew (March 31)...

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check what Italy did to Adwa (in Tigray), the place its first invasion of Abyssinia in 1896 was reversed, during its re-invasion in 1936.
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1935 Daily Sketch front page reporting Italian forces attacking Adowa in Abyssinia Stock Photo - Alamy

Download this stock image: 1935 Daily Sketch front page reporting Italian forces attacking Adowa in Abyssinia - E5GKJW from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations a...

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yeah it's still very common to see Mussolini and Italian fascism depicted/considered as the "silly/pathetic inferior fascism" compared to Hitler/Nazi Germany.
Besides what happened domestically, the stuff Italian fascists did in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia is among the worst in the 1930s and 1940s!

UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · Aug 14

Italy’s colonial past was as brutal “as anyone else’s”, from poison gas in Ethiopia to concentration camps in Yugoslavia.
Yet the nation hides behind the myth of the “good Italian.”
https://f.mtr.cool/hlmlhmwlqk

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · Aug 14

Italy’s colonial past was as brutal “as anyone else’s”, from poison gas in Ethiopia to concentration camps in Yugoslavia.
Yet the nation hides behind the myth of the “good Italian.”
https://f.mtr.cool/hlmlhmwlqk

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · Aug 6

In a new article for TGHAT, Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the war in Tigray in the context of enduring internal colonialism in Ethiopia, drawing on insights from Frantz Fanon.

Read here: 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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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · Aug 3

My latest on the poly-crisis in #Tigray;

“In his seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon analyzes the complexities of anti-colonial struggle and the enduring structures of neocolonialism—structures strikingly similar, I argue, to those facing Tigray today.”

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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Susanna Nordlund @susanna-nordlund.bsky.social · Jul 30

Much of it is done in African languages, but far from all. Then even the few progressive westerners that understand and care don't have the confidence to say, "shut up fascist" to an African fascist.

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is a dream piece I’ve been considering doing if it weren’t for all the teaching load and the firefight that the situation in #Tigray has been. Once the dust settles, I hope to contribute to such a writing. 👇🏻

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Jul 30

Someone needs to write a detailed book analyzing the virulent fascism by diasporas in relation to matters at home that goes unnoticed to "progressive" westerners because, since our lives have no value & our issues not legible, diaspora fascism goes unabated.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Jul 30

Only fascism on issues legible to progressive movements in the west is criticized, making virulent, genocidal fascism completely undetected in these spaces unless it's related to these matters. That makes it easy for horrors like #TigrayGenocide to be testing grounds as @tekgw.bsky.social wrote.

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 30

Now @justsecurity.org

I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.

Time has run out

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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative

It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · Jun 3

NEW REPORT 🧵
Displacement & Survival in Tigray

Today @hpn4tigray.bsky.social released the second report of our series. The first looked at displacement trends. This looks at how people are surviving. The primary source of data comes from IOM-DTM IDP site assessments.
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Displacement & Survival in Tigray (Part 2)

Duke Burbridge's analysis for HPN4Tigray

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Fascism is here.

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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · Jul 24

No country has “the right to protect itself” by starving children.

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