Abiy [Ahmed] won the Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation with Eritrea but has fallen out of favor with the United States, a longtime Ethiopian ally which voiced revulsion over the violence in Tigray, where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken of “ethnic cleansing.”

President Joe Biden’s administration as of January 1 booted Ethiopia out of a key trade agreement that allowed duty-free access, outraging segments of the growing Ethiopian-American community which said the United States was ceding influence to rival powers such as China.

Then, on August 2, the US special envoy to the Horn of Africa Mike Hammer, US Chargé d’Affaires in Ethiopia Tracey Jacobson and the European Union (EU) envoy Annette Weber, along with other Western diplomats, paid a visit to Mekelle and met TPLF leaders. Soon after this visit, which was criticized by the Ethiopian government, the TPLF began mobilization for war.

Secret Foreign Flights Arming TPLF

The “International Community” is an Unreliable Broker in Ethiopia Conflict

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Hermela Aregawi – 31 Aug 2022

The ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has been fueled by support from the United States. It is yet another proxy war which has brought great suffering to thousands of people.
The “International Community” is an Unreliable Broker in Ethiopia Conflict

Tedros is Playing the Race Card to Revive Western Support for Terrorism Against Ethiopia

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Andrew Korybko

He’s immorally taking advantage of the Western population’s growing awareness of their authorities’ racist policies to manipulate perceptions in order to mislead that targeted audience into wrongly thinking that their governments’ scaling back of support for the TPLF is due to racism against Tigrayans when it was actually their tangible support for that group’s divide-and-rule agenda against the historically cosmopolitan civilization-state of Ethiopia that was the epitome of racism.
Tedros is Playing the Race Card to Revive Western Support for Terrorism Against Ethiopia

Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency

July 20, 2022July 21, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Documents shared with MintPress reveal that Valent Projects – a shadowy communications firm that advises social media platforms such as Facebook on alleged state-backed online influence campaigns – has itself received $1.2 million from U.S. intelligence front USAID, for “counter disinformation and communications support.”
Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency

Ilhan Omar’s meddling in Horn of Africa earns boos at Somali American concert

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Framed by Republican media as a backlash against Ilhan Omar’s “woke” politics, the boos of a Somali American crowd expressed growing anger over the congresswoman’s role in US meddling in the Horn of Africa.
Ilhan Omar’s meddling in Horn of Africa earns boos at Somali American concert

Notes from Eritrea

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BAR contributor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is now in Eritrea.
Notes from Eritrea

Neocolonialism haunts Horn of Africa

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | JANUARY 5, 2022
Chinese foreign ministers have traditionally marked the new year by visiting the African continent. Wang Yi’s 2022 African tour begins with Eritrea against the backdrop of the US strategy in the Horn of Africa to gain control of the strategically vital Red Sea that connects Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal.
Neocolonialism haunts Horn of Africa