Strategic Thinking on East Africa

by the Strathink Editorial Team Part 2 of our series on the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi looks at conversations with American diplomats on events following the 2005 election.   Prime Minster Meles is displaying a kind of respectful defiance of the international community as he builds Ethiopia democracy—his way. U.S. Ambassador Donald Yamamoto To […]

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Parliament of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia RESOLUTION Supporting respect for human rights and encouraging inclusive governance in the United States. Whereas the first pillar of the 2016 Ethiopia Strategy Toward North America is to strengthen democratic institutions and the Government of Ethiopia agrees that strong democratic institutions, respect for human […]

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From The Guardian Abraham T Zere In a bid to upend years of secrecy in the country dubbed “Africa’s North Korea”, a new Facebook page is publishing documents claiming to show how the Eritrean government abuses its citizens. In just two months, SACTISM – Classified Documents of the Dwindling PFDJ has garnered more than 16,000 […]

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OPINION By Hagos Abraha It is not unusual for the Eritrea regime to repeat its make believe claims regarding Ethiopia and the region in general. However, it not always we find respected institutions engaged in such intellectually bankrupt propaganda. Sadly, that was the case with the recent article published by the Nordic Africa Institute. We […]

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BY LAURA SECORUN PALETAPR 172016 ACUMEN Every day all over the world, people cross borders in search of a better life. But you know things are truly bad back home when you need to seek refuge in Sudan. That’s precisely what more than 125,530 people have done — and the United Nations High Commissioner […]

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The strathink editorial team could not resist posting this story about young people in Ethiopia taking up the sport of skateboarding. While children in Eritrea are risking their lives to flee Eritrea’s oppressive indefinite national service, young people in Ethiopia are enjoying their youth. From BBC Ethiopia’s young skateboarders, who find it hard to get […]

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Deutsche Welle Every month as many as 5,000 people flee Eritrea, a country ruled by an authoritarian regime in which human rights violations are widespread. Oliver Ramme has just returned from a rare visit to the African nation. Eritrean asylum seekers at a refugee camp in Kassala State, eastern Sudan Tokombia is a village lying […]

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  By Max Bearak In Eritrea, your last year of high school is also your first year in the army. The nation fought a 30-year war against its much larger neighbor Ethiopia, and because of a continuing land dispute, still considers hostilities active. Although obligatory conscription isn’t exactly unusual around the world, in Eritrea, there […]

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FILE - South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, left, accompanied by army chief of staff Paul Malong Awan, waves during an independence day ceremony in the capital Juba, South Sudan, July 9, 2015. Peter Clottey April 10, 2016 10:18 AM South Sudan’s opposition faction is calling recent comments by the country’s army chief of staff, “anti-peace […]

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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle April 8, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrean Security forces have allegedly killed and injured several army conscripts in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, officials of an Eritrean opposition group told Sudan Tribune on Thursday. Thousands of Eritreans have been lured from Sudanese refugee camps to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, where they are subject to […]

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