Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From BBC Image copyrightGetty Images Image captionEthiopia had threatened military action to rescue the abducted children At least 19 Ethiopian children held captive by an armed South Sudanese group for nearly a month have been freed, Ethiopian state media reports. The 19 were freed following mediation by South Sudan’s government, it adds. This is the […]

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From Quartz 32 WRITTEN BY Jason Patinkin Ethiopia’s army entered South Sudan this week to search for over 100 children abducted by a South Sudanese militia during a cross-border cattle raid last month. Ethiopia said the raiders killed over 200 people and blamed the attack on an ethnic Murle militia from South Sudan’s Boma area, […]

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South Sudan: 32 Kidnapped Ethiopian Children Recovered By JASON PATINKIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS JUBA, South Sudan — Authorities in South Sudan said they have recovered 32 of the 125 Ethiopian children who the Ethiopian government said were abducted from its Gambela region two weeks ago during a deadly cattle raid blamed on a South Sudanese militia. […]

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New York Times By JACEY FORTINAPRIL 25, 2016 GAMBELA, Ethiopia — After angry mobs began targeting his community, Simon Thion, 29, felt caught in the middle. Mr. Simon, an Ethiopian who is part of the Nuer ethnic group, went to a hospital in the western town of Gambela recently to visit his nephew, who was […]

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Image copyrightReuters Image captionRiek Machar (c) was greeted at the airport before heading to be sworn in as vice-president South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar has been sworn in as vice-president in a boost for a peace deal aimed at ending more than two years of conflict. He returned earlier to the capital, Juba, to […]

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A man watches the news about Riek Machar’s delayed return in Juba, South Sudan, April 20. The rebel leader’s return to the capital has been consistently delayed and could put South Sudan’s fragile peace deal under strain.CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES   A full week after he was scheduled to touch down in the capital Juba […]

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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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From geeskaafrika.com ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 20, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security NewsA deadly cross-border raid from South Sudan into Ethiopia’s western Gambella Region last Friday has left scores dead and prompted the Ethiopian government to declare two days of national mourning. Officially, the Ethiopian government says 13 villages were attacked, leaving 182 civilians dead along […]

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Disagreement over weapons is preventing rebel leader from returning to Juba to form unity government, officials say. Justin Lynch | A disagreement over weapons is preventing South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar from returning to Juba, according to demands from a government official and a rebel spokesman. Since December 2013, South Sudan has been crippled […]

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Why did a group of South Sudanese people cross the border into western Ethiopia and start shooting mothers and abducting their children? Nyruach Lam, 30, at Gambella hospital in Gambella town, Ethiopia, on 17 April. On the bed is her daughter, Beyang Luk, 14. Beyang was shot in the leg as she and her mother […]

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