Uncovering the News — 03/22/21 – 03/29/21

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What’s At Stake: African media applaud the effort of a Niger­ian bil­lion­aire who is giv­ing back to the home­land, Tigray con­flict con­tin­ues to grab the head­lines as Eritrea begins a peace effort by with­draw­ing its troops from Ethiopia, and pres­sure mounts on inter­na­tion­al insti­tu­tions to return loot­ed African arti­facts where they belong.  Niger­ian Bil­lion­aire Pays It…

Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict Is Dominating Africa Headline News

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  Ten­sions in Ethiopia’s north­ern Tigray region have gone from talk­ing about the poten­tial for con­flict into what is now the after­math of a war between the country’s fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in Addis Aba­ba and the region­al gov­ern­ment in Tigray. An esti­mat­ed six mil­lion peo­ple live in the Tigray region.  Since fight­ing began on Novem­ber 4,…

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…

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…