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Feb 10, 2021

A Nobel Prize That Will Live in Infamy

The audience roared when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addressed the people of Tigray in April 2018. Delivered in Tigrigna, hardly any statement went by without a deafening applause. The joy was genuine and heartfelt. Here was an Oromo soldier who took the time to learn Tigrigna, and here was a…

Abiy Ahmed

8 min read

A Nobel Prize That Will Live in Infamy
A Nobel Prize That Will Live in Infamy

Feb 3, 2021

Cut Off From Everything — The Plight of Six Million People

No internet or phone service. No banking services, power or running water. No transportation. Widespread killings, rapes, and abductions. Hunger so extreme that people are forced to eat leaves to survive, according to the UN. Imagine a whole region of some six million people cut off from the rest of…

Abiy Ahmed

6 min read

Cut off from everything
Cut off from everything
Helen Solomon

Helen Solomon

I write about Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

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