Ethiopia has restricted social media and messaging platforms, ahead of banned protests by both the Christian Orthodox Church and a splinter group of clerics. We look at the importance of the church in Ethiopia, and examine recent tensions and the schism in the church.
Plus, we get reaction from South Africa, after President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his Stat ... Show More
Nov 2022
Ethiopia’s Tigray War: After the Cessation of Hostilities, What Next?
<p>On 2 November, the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan forces reached an agreement to cease hostilities and end almost two years of bloody war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The truce came after the Ethiopian army, together with Eritrean troops and forces from the ... Show More
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Oct 2021
Social Media Misinformation Stokes A Worsening Civil War In Ethiopia
Hate and division on Facebook are not just a problem in the U.S. That's one of the messages whistleblower Frances Haugen took to Congress last week, where she accused Facebook's algorithms of quote, "literally fanning ethnic violence in Ethiopia," a country that's endured nearly ... Show More
11m 58s
Apr 2022
Can a “Humanitarian Truce” Help End Ethiopia’s Civil War?
<p>After almost seventeen months of devastating civil war in Ethiopia, the federal government on 24 March announced what it called a humanitarian truce. The offer would ostensibly allow aid into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, which has, in effect, been under a blockade for mo ... Show More
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