Africa in the news: Unrest in Ethiopia, contentious elections results in Tanzania and Côte d’Ivoire, and a new UK-Kenya trade deal

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/global_ivory_coast_ballot_counting.jpg?w=264Ethiopi­an prime min­is­ter orders mil­i­tary cam­paign against Tigray region  On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 3, Ethiopi­an Prime Min­is­ter Abiy Ahmed ordered a mil­i­tary oper­a­tion against the gov­ern­ment of the country’s north­ern Tigray region, after accus­ing the Tigrayan rul­ing par­ty of attack­ing a

Media Blame Failed Ethiopia Coup on the Country’s Ethnic Divisions

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Con­fu­sion remains fol­low­ing what media around the world have described as an attempt to seize pow­er in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, as well as in the country’s cap­i­tal, Addis Aba­ba on Sat­ur­day, June 22. It is still a con­fus­ing sit­u­a­tion as many peo­ple have been dis­placed by mil­i­tary activ­i­ty and arrests con­tin­ue in a gov­ern­ment effort…

Questions about Media Coverage of Ethiopian Airlines Jet Crash

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A few hours after a Boe­ing 737 Max 8 jet, owned and oper­at­ed by Ethiopi­an Air­lines crashed short­ly after take-off from Addis Aba­ba, the Ethiopi­an cap­i­tal, on March 10, the sto­ry about what hap­pened quick­ly swung from the many vic­tims who lost their lives in the acci­dent to ques­tions such as what ver­sion of aircraft…

Reports of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Leads the News Globally

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Reports that an Ethiopi­an Air­lines air­craft, a Boe­ing 737 MAX 8 crashed Sun­day, March 10 en route from Addis Aba­ba, the Ethiopi­an cap­i­tal to Nairo­bi, Kenya woke me up ear­ly in the morn­ing. I received two alerts on my smart­phone ear­ly in the morn­ing, from the New York Times, as well as from Reuters, which…

Media in the U.S. Praise Ethiopia-Eritrea Détente

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After almost twen­ty years of a resent­ful stale­mate between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the recent­ly elect­ed Prime Min­is­ter of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, announced that the gov­ern­ment will ful­ly accept the pre­vi­ous­ly unrec­og­nized 2000 Algiers peace agree­ment. Despite the bit­ter dis­pute over the bor­der town of Badme, the new Ethiopi­an admin­is­tra­tion is acknowl­edg­ing the futil­i­ty of disagreement…