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ADDIS ABABA, NOVEMBER 09, 2021 — After President Olusegun Obasanjo delivered his briefing to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) yesterday, Ethiopia's Ambassador to the UN, Taye Atske Selassie, said his country honors and respects the call for political dialogue. "It is an approach we fully prescribe to and even applied in resolving many interstate and intrastate disputes", he said. The Ambassador pleaded to the Council to understand Ethiopia's context while discussing dialogue. "Ethiopia is a country of 83 languages. But no political group, despite their grievances, have raised arms against their brethren. No political group ethnic or political group, despite their unfulfilled demands, have waged war against the motherland. Diversity is not Ethiopia's problem", he said. Ethiopia's problem, said Ethiopia's UN Permanent Representative, is a criminal group [ the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)] that refuses to accept equality

ADDIS ABABA, NOVEMBER 09, 2021 —  President Olusegun Obasanjo, African Union's High Representative for the Horn of Africa, after visiting Mekelle on November 07, briefed the AU's Peace and Security Council and later briefed the United Nation Security Council virtually. Below find his full statement to the UN Security Council. --- His Excellency, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, President of the UN Security Council; Your Excellency, Antonio Guterres , Secretary of the United Nations; Excellencies, Members of the Council; Distinguished ladies and gentlemen;   It is a great pleasure, an honor, for me to be invited to the briefing to this body to discuss the situation in Ethiopia within the context of agenda its item Peace and Security in Africa. I wish to express my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the President and Members of Council for this invitation.   If you allow me to exchange views on pertinent unfolding developments on one of the strategic countries in the continent of A

ADDIS ABABA, NOVEMBER 08, 2021 — Ethiopia begins providing national examination to more than 600,000 12th grade students today in more than 2,000 exam stations except in areas occupied by the US backed Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) terrorists. These exams decide the students' chances for tertiary education. The National Education Assessment and Examinations Agency (NEAEA) said it is planning to provide national examination in 2nd round in conflict ridden areas of Wag-Himra and North Wollo zones of Amhara region. It said it will provide psychological support to students from these areas before the exams. Adanech Abiebie (left), Addis Ababa Mayor, and Education Minister Professor Birhanu Nega visiting exam stations in Addis [Picture: Ministry of Education]   The Minister of Education, Professor Birhanu Nega, a veteran opposition figure, said that the 91.5% of students are attending the national exams from the total of those who registered.  However, in Tigray thin

ADDIS ABABA, NOVEMBER 07, 2021 – Hundreds and thousands of Ethiopians came out to the streets in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday, denouncing the United States' (US) treatment of Ethiopia and condemning disinformation campaign waged against Ethiopia by international media such as CNN. The rally was also intended to show support to the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and condemn the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) terrorists and their backers.   In spite of the orchestrated international media disinformation campaign claiming Addis was uneasy, citizens of Addis Ababa came out to show to the world that things are not as the media depicts it to be. CNN recently released news saying that the TPLF terrorists were in the outskirts of Addis Ababa which led the U.S. Embassy in Addis to call on its citizens to leave the country. However, most Ethiopians saw this as unnecessary fear mongering.    Some of the demonstrators were carrying signs which read #NoMore ,

ADDIS ABABA, NOVEMBER 07, 2021 — Ethiopia's Mufti Haji Omar Idris enters the prestigious list of World's Most Influential 500 Muslims 2022 for a consecutive year. Mufti Haji Omar is selected as the most influential in the scholarly category. The 500 Most Influential Muslims (also known as The Muslim 500) is an annual publication first published in 2009, which ranks the most influential Muslims in the world.    The publication is compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan. The report is issued in cooperation with Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in the United States.   Mufti Haji Omar was born in Wollo, Amhara region, Ethiopia, where he completed his Quranic studies. He is the leader of Ethiopian Muslims as the President of Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council and head of the Fatwa and Da'wa Councils.    Widely respected among both Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia, he is a pr

  Addis Ababa, November 06, 2021 — After Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Oromo Liberation Army joined hands in Kemise, Oromia Zone, Amhara region, they have killed hundreds of Oromo civilians, said Ahmed Hassan, mayor of Kemise town, in a phone interview with ETV. After they took over the town on November 04, 2021, the mayor said, they have been looting properties, destroying civilian infrastructures and killing many civilians. "OLA Shane has accepted TPLF's superiority and it is killing Oromo civilians, the people it claims it stands for. It brought TPLF to Kemise and killed many youths and looted property", said Shimelis Abdisa, President of Oromia regional state, during his interview with Fana television. Kemise is the administrative capital of Oromia Zone in Amhara region. The Oromo are the majority of the residents of Kemise town along with the Amhara and others. The Oromo in Kemise were the latest group to be targeted after TPLF was designated a ter

  Addis Ababa, November 06, 2021 — Twitter Inc said today it has indefinitely disabled its Trends section in Ethiopia over "threats of physical harm", the company said early today.  Ethiopia's hashtags #NoMore and #CNNFakeNews were the trends twitter disabled claiming they were "dehumanizing". But they were actually anti-terrorism hashtags and hashtags against disinformation campaign waged against Ethiopia and it was being led by Hermela Aregawi, an Ethiopian and a Tigrayan, through the Horn of Africa Hub . The hashtags among others were resisting a fake news being broadcasted by international media such as the CNN. Few days ago, CNN released unsubstantiated claim that the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a terrorist designated group, were at the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. This claim by CNN, however, was immediately discredited by Ugandan journalist, Daniel Lutaaya, who visited Addis Ababa on November 05, just after CNN'

    Addis Ababa, November 05, 2021 — Ethiopia State of Emergency (SoE) task force officially began its operation today as per the State of Emergency Proclamation No. 5/2014. One of its first decisions is to ensure businesses pay their taxes on time without paying attention to disinformation campaigns. "This is the time of paying your taxes. We want to inform businesses to pay their taxes properly and on time to help the country they love in the same way others are sacrificing their lives for their country," said the task force. Accordingly, during the SoE meeting held today, the task force made three key decisions. The task force suspended indefinitely the provision of National IDs throughout Ethiopia. The task force came to this conclusion because it said it found out counterfeit IDs being produced in Amhara, Oromia and Addis Ababa. The SoE task force ordered all unregistered weapons to be registered and licensed within a week.  The task force warned businesses not be sway

  Addis Ababa, November 05, 2021 — Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) terrorists have been looting schools during their invasion of North Wollo of Amhara region while destroying or burning stuff they could not carry to Tigray. And in some places, they were forcing residents to purchase them. They even 'sold' by force school computers and laboratory equipment, said witnesses who spoke to Ethiopian Press. "They came to my home carrying broken computers and asked me to purchase them. But I told them I didn't know how to use a computer and they just forced me to give them the money I had in my pocket. I gave them what I had and they threw the computer and left", said Aynachew in an interview after his town, Kokit, was freed by Ethiopian forces. One of the witnesses also said he was forced to purchase the school items such as printers after he saw another person getting executed for refusing to purchase them. According to witnesses, who fled from TPLF occupie

Feltman didn’t come to Ethiopia to mediate peace, he came to deliver an ultimatum threatening a 20-year proxy war if his hosts don’t immediately surrender. By Andrew Korybko —  American political analyst     US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman released an extended and very manipulative statement ahead of his visit to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. This American official intended to set the narrative that his country’s Mainstream Media (MSM) proxies should follow for intensifying their information warfare against that country. The US’ Hybrid War on Ethiopia threatens to get worse since there aren’t any signs that this victimized state will bend to the aggressor’s pressure as hinted at in Feltman’s statement. It’s therefore worthwhile to analyze exactly what he said in order to expose the means through which his country is expected to intensify its Hybrid War campaign. What comes next is a collection of quotes from Feltman’s statement followed by