I don't know how I missed this incredible investigative reporting by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social and Ashenafi Endale, illicit mining in Tigray-->funding for another looming war, pollution, and, surprise surprise, foreign investment from Canada + China🧵
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
“What happens when atrocities go unnoticed, unpunished, or even tacitly accepted? Impunity does not end violence; it perpetuates it…
[A]ctive war has flared up again in Tigray in 2026.
This has raised the prospect of a renewed full-scale siege. This is evidenced by recent drone attacks”
You can also listen to a conversation I had on the article here, open.spotify.com/show/06n4Uuy...
or here
www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...
This is based on an earlier article about the production of "zone of invisibility" in Tigray. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
13.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How did Ethiopia get away with the mass murder of close to a million Tigrayans?
In my latest piece for @theconversation.com, I examine the tactics the Ethiopian regime and its allies used to conceal the genocide in Tigray, and evade accountability.
theconversation.com/how-to-get-a...
The Tigray crisis remains largely invisible to the world.
"Factors such as race and the peripherality of the region made the Tigray conflict a blind spot in global geopolitics. But these explanations are not sufficient."
In @uk.theconversation.com by @tekgw.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qvJzux
The TESCREALists I wrote about (Goertzel), teaming up with pedophiles (Epstein), experimenting on five million Ethiopian children through "digital IDs" which they want for harvesting data to train "AI." My worlds colliding in the worst way.
13.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 80 🔁 31 💬 9 📌 7
This month, in our #RangelandMyths series, we examine the myth that 'Mobility drives conflict and insecurity'.
Read the think piece by Linda Pappagallo: repairproject.org/Blog/myth-mo...
Join our online discussion on 26 February with @tekgw.bsky.social:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
Important paper on the Tigray War. Key points: Death toll likely to be larger than 800k and Ethiopia obscured the crisis, creating 'zone of invisibility' to reduce calls for international action : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
30.09.2025 13:25 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The Horn of Africa has been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern history.
@tekgw.bsky.social and Hussein Sulieman write about the devastating wars in Ethiopia and Sudan, and how these have reshaped regional dynamics.
🔗 bit.ly/4oxE5OQ
And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e
14.11.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere.
Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...
Flyer for event, with image of book cover, event time & address and blurb.
On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time).
Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'
Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
Travesty lies in the fact that Abiy now appears to be using the TPLF faction’s alleged ties with Eritrea as a pretext to further isolate & besiege what remains of Tigray — despite his own open alliance with the Eri regime to turn Tigray into a wasteland
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPRG4...
Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre.
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Cover of this weekend's The Continent newspaper "Genocide resumes in Darfur as Sudan tears apart"
Screenshot of article by Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum "Sudan's split in two is now complete." Satellite imagery depicting destruction and possible dead included
Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege.
Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
#Politics
We also note that
“Famine in #Tigray was a deliberate effort to weaken and humiliate a population. The implications go beyond Ethiopia. They expose how global systems remain unfit for documenting or responding to politically induced famine.”
#TigrayGenocide
In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Yesterday was an inspiring day at @ki.se , where I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a keynote speech on the role of scholarship during the genocide in Tigray and to take part in engaging panel discussions on academic freedom and democracy.
24.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"The UN system has collapsed, and securing a seat within this deteriorating institution (a seeming preoccupation by some of the leaders) does little to protect Africa from the injustices of old and new colonial dynamics being shaped around the continent."
15.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"For all intents and purposes, the United Nations has lost much of its influence, as its involvement and legitimacy have been progressively undermined."
African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.”
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
"This afterlife manifests not through conquest, at least not yet, but through opaque investment agreements, peace accords, and diplomatic gestures. If left unchallenged, it threatens to consign Africa to another century of external domination."
15.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In a new blog, my colleague Smith Ouma and I highlight that a new wave of colonialism—less overt than in the past yet equally insidious—is unfolding, one that may lock Africa into another centuries-long asymmetrical relationship with new imperial forces.
15.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act.
Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
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.
Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8
