Ipse related to Ethiopia

Abiy Ahmed

Inserted 1 year ago

“The agreement signed today in South Africa is monumental in moving Ethiopia forward on the path of the reforms we embarked upon four and a half years ago. Our commitment to peace remains steadfast. And our commitment to collaborating for the implementation of the agreement is equally strong.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Ethiopia

02 Nov 2022 3 2

Getachew Reda

Inserted 1 year ago

“Eritrea is deploying its entire army as well as reservists. Our forces are heroically defending their positions.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)

19 Sep 2022 2 3

Etana Habte Dinka

Inserted 1 year ago

“The most important thing is about the timing. It's important to know why this war resumed right now. The Addis Ababa government must have known that Tigrayan forces are at their weakest point. The organisation and relaunch of war is important.”

Aljazeera

Assistant Professor at James Madison University

26 Aug 2022 2 2

Goitom Gebreluel

Inserted 2 years ago

“Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] has continuously lied on humanitarian aid and the presence of Eritrean soldiers, among other things. It wouldn't be rational to take his word. A truce as with any other peace deal should be formalized and transparent, with mediators providing some guarantees. With such a framework absent, one shouldn't be hopeful.”

Aljazeera

Researcher and political analyst on the Horn of Africa

28 Mar 2022 4 2

Tsedale Lemma

Inserted 2 years ago

“To begin with, under international law, humanitarian assistance can't be held hostage to political or military negotiations. All parties have an obligation under international humanitarian law to provide unimpeded access to those in need. There's also no explanation for why the government isn't lifting the blockade on telecom, electricity and banking services. These would alleviate a great deal of the suffering, especially for the working class who can't access their own savings to buy whatever is available in the local market.”

Aljazeera

Ethiopian journalist who founded Addis Standard

28 Mar 2022 4 1

Fesseha Tessema

Inserted 2 years ago

“Our position is clear. We are ready to observe a ceasefire for humanitarian operations and for public services to be restored. But there have been no developments on the ground until this day.”

Aljazeera

TPLF adviser and a former Ethiopian diplomat

28 Mar 2022 2 2

Addisu Lashitew

Inserted 2 years ago

“GERD's [Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam] commissioning is a rare positive development that can unite a deeply fractured country after 15 months of brutal conflict with Tigrayan rebels. The newly generated electricity from the GERD could help revive an economy that has been devastated by the combined forces of a deadly war, rising fuel prices and the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Aljazeera

Nonresident fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution

20 Feb 2022 5 5

William Davison

Inserted 2 years ago

“GERD [Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam] is seen domestically as a symbol of Ethiopia resisting external pressure. The government has propagated the idea that foreign actors are trying to undermine Ethiopia's sovereignty, so I think this will be cast as showing they are still making progress despite a hostile environment.”

Aljazeera

Senior Analyst at International Crisis Group

20 Feb 2022 2 3

Abiy Ahmed

Inserted 2 years ago

“Ethiopia's main interest is to bring light to 60 percent of the population who is suffering in darkness, to save the labour of our mothers who are carrying wood on their backs in order to get energy. As you can see, this water will generate energy while flowing as it previously flowed to Sudan and Egypt, unlike the rumours that say the Ethiopian people and government are damming the water to starve Egypt and Sudan.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Ethiopia

20 Feb 2022 3 3

Mohammed Adow

Inserted 2 years ago

“The diplomats who are gathered here tell us there are structural problems, and that many African countries and African leaders have adopted elections just as a calendar item that is done every five years. There is very little scrutiny of the credibility of false elections, and that is where they say the problem lies.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Addis Ababa

05 Feb 2022 3 2

Yohannes Gedamu

Inserted 2 years ago

“For Ethiopians, the national dialogue is an opportunity to chart a new path for peace, political tolerance, national unity, political and economic equality and a shared Ethiopian destiny. Since November 2020, TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front] and OLA [Oromo Liberation Army] demonstrated that they have no interest in getting on such a path, so there is nothing to be gained from including them in the national dialogue. But the exclusion of the TPLF and the OLA from the process should not be seen as a sign that Tigrayans and Oromos will also be excluded from the national dialogue. These groups are crucial members of the Ethiopian nation, and there is no reason to believe the federal government is trying to exclude them from its national dialogue initiative.”

Aljazeera

Ecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA, US

27 Jan 2022 7 3

Legesse Tulu

Inserted 2 years ago

“The first phase operation to expel the terrorist group from the areas it invaded has ended with victory. At this moment the enemy's desire and ability (to engage in war) is severely destroyed. The government will take further steps to make sure that (the Tigray forces) desire won't arise again in the future. For now, Ethiopian forces are ordered to maintain the areas it has controlled.”

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Ethiopian Government spokesperson

23 Dec 2021 4 2

Billene Seyoum

Inserted 2 years ago

“As we have seen in recent weeks, the national defence forces together with allied forces from the Afar region and the Amhara region have made considerable gains in reversing the occupation by TPLF of many Amhara and Afar towns. These gains have been made in very heavy battles that have been undertaken over the past weeks, the most recent being the full clearing of TPLF from North Wollo Zone and liberating its strategic capital Woldiya.”

Reuters

Spokeswoman for the Ethiopian prime minister’s office

21 Dec 2021 6 2

Billene Seyoum

Inserted 2 years ago

“The TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front] have sustained great losses over the past weeks and hence are claiming 'strategic retreat' to make up for defeat. There are still pockets in the Amhara region in which they remain as well as other fronts they are attempting to open the conflict.”

Aljazeera

Spokeswoman for the Ethiopian prime minister’s office

20 Dec 2021 4 3

Ned Price

Inserted 2 years ago

“If we do see a movement of the Tigrayan forces back into Tigray, that is something we would welcome. It's something we'd call for, and we hope it opens the door to broader diplomacy.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for the United States Department of State

20 Dec 2021 4 2

Getachew Reda

Inserted 2 years ago

“We hope that by us withdrawing, the international community will do something about the situation in Tigray as they can no longer use as an excuse that our forces are invading Amhara and Afar.”

Reuters

Spokesperson for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)

20 Dec 2021 4 2

Debretsion Gebremichael

Inserted 2 years ago

“We trust that our bold act of withdrawal will be a decisive opening for peace.”

Reuters

Tigray regional President

20 Dec 2021 1 2

Zembe Kebede

Inserted 2 years ago

“We call on all council members to … stand against short-sighted interests and refuse the politicisation of human rights by rejecting this resolution. My government will not cooperate with any mechanisms that may be imposed on it because this is … a deliberate destabilisation effort.”

Aljazeera

Ethiopia criticizes new probe proposal at UN rights body session

17 Dec 2021 1 3

Nada Al-Nashif

Inserted 2 years ago

“I also deplore increasing hate speech and incitement to violence by federal and regional authorities, as well as other public figures, particularly targeted against Tigrayans and members of the Oromo community. Like the nation-wide sweeps, house-raids and arrests, this rhetoric - in public speeches, broadcasting and social media, including Facebook and Twitter - intensifies a climate of fear. The risk of increasing hatred, violence and discrimination is very high, and could escalate into generalized violence. This could have major implications, not only for millions of people in Ethiopia, but also across the region.”

Ohchr

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

17 Dec 2021 6 3

Laetitia Bader

Inserted 2 years ago

“The global paralysis on Ethiopia's armed conflict has emboldened human rights abusers to act with impunity and left communities at risk feeling abandoned. As evidence of atrocities mounts, world leaders should support the creation of an international investigative mechanism and the UN Security Council should put Ethiopia on its formal agenda.”

Hrw

Horn of Africa director at Human Rights Watch

16 Dec 2021 3 3

Joanne Mariner

Inserted 2 years ago

“The new onslaught of abuses by Amhara forces against Tigrayan civilians remaining in several towns in Western Tigray should ring alarm bells. Without urgent international action to prevent further atrocities, Tigrayans, particularly those in detention, are at grave risk.”

Hrw

Director of crisis response at Amnesty International

16 Dec 2021 7 4

Alex Rondos

Inserted 2 years ago

“The West needs to make up for its mistakes in Ethiopia. It misjudged Abiy [Abiy Ahmed]. It empowered Isaias [Isaias Afwerki]. Now the issue is whether a country of 110 million people can be prevented from unraveling.”

Nytimes

Former European Union Special Representative for the Horn of Africa

15 Dec 2021 2 4

Gebremeskel Kassa

Inserted 2 years ago

“From that day, Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] felt he was one of the most influential personalities in the world. He felt he had a lot of international support, and that if he went to war in Tigray, nothing would happen. And he was right.”

Nytimes

Former senior Abiy administration official now in exile in Europe

15 Dec 2021 (approx) 2 4

William Davison

Inserted 2 years ago

“Ethiopia's intensified use of drones and the mobilisation of new recruits for the national army had increased pressure on Tigrayan forces. This has really hit the Tigrayan supply lines and meant that they had to give up on those offensive ambitions. Certainly Tigrayan commanders and leaders had expressed a lot of confidence about their position. So it wouldn't be a massive surprise if, despite these setbacks, they were able to recover - and unfortunately that would mean this war dragging on for many months.”

Aljazeera

Senior Analyst at International Crisis Group

06 Dec 2021 4 2

Martin Plaut

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Tigrayans have been pushed a long way back. They have been pushed back through towns and villages that they fought extremely hard to take. They must have lost many lives in order to capture them.”

Aljazeera

Senior researcher at the University of London

06 Dec 2021 3 4

Legesse Tulu

Inserted 2 years ago

“In Shewa front, the Mezezo, Molale, Shewa Robit, Rasa and its surroundings have been freed from the terrorist TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front].”

Aljazeera

Ethiopian Government spokesperson

01 Dec 2021 8 2

Mohammed Taha Tewekel

Inserted 2 years ago

“It [Chifra] has been the epicentre of military operations during the past 40 days. The scenes we witnessed are very appalling. Dead bodies everywhere on the streets. It is living proof of the ferociousness of the fighting. There are clear signs of the lack of humanity in this conflict. The town's commercial shops were totally destroyed, even the mosques were not spared. All the residents have fled for their lives and the town has turned into military barracks for the Afari fighters. The Afari fighters have seized the city and are now advancing towards the towns of Bati and Kombolcha.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Chifra (Ethiopia)

28 Nov 2021 7 2

Samuel Getachew

Inserted 2 years ago

“In terms of negotiation or ceasefire, there seems to be a growing distance between the two sides. With the conflict ongoing and impacting so many people, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. There's determination from both sides to win it 100 percent.”

Aljazeera

Independent journalist in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa

26 Nov 2021 0 3

Abiy Ahmed

Inserted 2 years ago

“We won't give in until we bury the enemy. What we want to see is an Ethiopia that stands on our sacrifices - either to be Ethiopian or to be Ethiopia. The enemy doesn't have the standing to compete with us, we will win.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Ethiopia

26 Nov 2021 2 2

Tesfaye Sherefa

Inserted 2 years ago

“I was amazed when I heard. When a leader leaves his chair… and his throne it is to rescue his country. His focus is not to live, but to rescue this country, and I sobbed when he said 'follow me' and went to the front line.”

Aljazeera

Ethiopian 42-year-old driver and new recruit

24 Nov 2021 1 3

Mustafa Ali

Inserted 2 years ago

“Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] is risking his life and he's also risking the lives of those who are going to be alongside himself. The calculation here from Abiy's administration is because … that many armed grounds are converging around Addis Ababa, he sees it fit as part of a psychological operation to inspire other Ethiopians to join the [national army] and fight this war and push back the Tigrayans. Ethiopia is a huge country; if it descends into anarchy then we are going have a huge problem of stability in the entire Horn of Africa.”

Aljazeera

Co-founder and chairman of Horn International Institute for Strategic Studies

24 Nov 2021 7 3

Stephane Dujarric

Inserted 2 years ago

“We will continue to monitor the situation as it evolves, keeping in mind the safety of our staff and the need to continue to stand and deliver and to continue operations and support all the people that need our assistance.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

23 Nov 2021 0 1

Haji Gnamo

Inserted 2 years ago

“Diplomats have to find a political way. Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] cannot win this war. The Ethiopian army is relatively weakened. They are losing cities and his going to the battlefront doesn't change anything - negotiations are the only way out of this.”

Aljazeera

Expert in Ethiopian politics at the University of Toronto

23 Nov 2021 3 6

Kjetil Tronvoll

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is a gamble in the sense will people follow him? [Abiy Ahmed] Because I think that's the intention, that he was trying to rally the Ethiopian base, the nationalist base to join him at the battlefront to fight back the advancing Tigrayan forces. The question is, will people in thousands or hundreds of thousands join him there? We don't know yet.”

Aljazeera

Professor at Oslo University

23 Nov 2021 4 3

William Lawrence

Inserted 2 years ago

“Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] had used a lot of war imagery when accepting his Nobel prize but that had been to highlight the horror of war. And here we are, almost full circle with a Nobel Peace Prize winner using the most bellicose language to try and ramp up the stakes ahead of the defence of not only Ethiopia, but life and death. He says he's basically willing to die for the cause.”

Aljazeera

Former US diplomat

23 Nov 2021 6 3

Getachew Reda

Inserted 2 years ago

“Abiy's [Abiy Ahmed] mimicry of Ethiopia's war-time Emperors has taken on an all too palpable schizophrenic overtone. He has vowed to join 'his forces' in the battlefield in the honorable tradition of his 'glorious predecessors'. I would've dismissed this is yet another sick joke any day.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)

23 Nov 2021 4 3

Abraham Belay

Inserted 2 years ago

“There will be change. What happened and is happening to our people, the abuses being meted out by this destructive, terrorist, robber group, can't continue.”

Aljazeera

Ethiopian Defense Minister

22 Nov 2021 0 2

Abiy Ahmed

Inserted 2 years ago

“Starting tomorrow, I will mobilise to the front to lead the defence forces. Those who want to be among the Ethiopian children who will be hailed by history, rise up for your country today. Let's meet at the battlefront.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Ethiopia

22 Nov 2021 4 3

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 years ago

“We'd like to see the parties come together at the table to put in place the cessation of hostilities. We need to see humanitarian assistance flow freely now. We need to see people detained released and we need to see everyone engaging in an effort to resolve the differences that exist peacefully and constitutionally. The bottom line is that there is no military solution to this conflict. Every party has to recognise that and act accordingly. With regard to atrocities, we have deep concern about that as we have over the past many months. It is something that we are looking at very closely, very carefully, and making determinations as we go along.”

Aljazeera

U.S. Secretary of State

17 Nov 2021 4 1

Martin Griffiths

Inserted 2 years ago

“Millions of people in northern Ethiopia are living on a knife-edge as the humanitarian crisis is growing deeper and wider. Across the country, needs are rising.”

Aljazeera

United Nations humanitarian chief

15 Nov 2021 2 3

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“The agreement signed today in South Africa is monumental in moving Ethiopia forward on the path of the reforms we embarked upon four and a half years ago. Our commitment to peace remains steadfast. And our commitment to collaborating for the implementation of the agreement is equally strong.”

“Eritrea is deploying its entire army as well as reservists. Our forces are heroically defending their positions.”

“The most important thing is about the timing. It's important to know why this war resumed right now. The Addis Ababa government must have known that Tigrayan forces are at their weakest point. The organisation and relaunch of war is important.”

“Our position is clear. We are ready to observe a ceasefire for humanitarian operations and for public services to be restored. But there have been no developments on the ground until this day.”

“The TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front] have sustained great losses over the past weeks and hence are claiming 'strategic retreat' to make up for defeat. There are still pockets in the Amhara region in which they remain as well as other fronts they are attempting to open the conflict.”

“If we do see a movement of the Tigrayan forces back into Tigray, that is something we would welcome. It's something we'd call for, and we hope it opens the door to broader diplomacy.”

“We hope that by us withdrawing, the international community will do something about the situation in Tigray as they can no longer use as an excuse that our forces are invading Amhara and Afar.”

“We trust that our bold act of withdrawal will be a decisive opening for peace.”

“We call on all council members to … stand against short-sighted interests and refuse the politicisation of human rights by rejecting this resolution. My government will not cooperate with any mechanisms that may be imposed on it because this is … a deliberate destabilisation effort.”

“The new onslaught of abuses by Amhara forces against Tigrayan civilians remaining in several towns in Western Tigray should ring alarm bells. Without urgent international action to prevent further atrocities, Tigrayans, particularly those in detention, are at grave risk.”

“The West needs to make up for its mistakes in Ethiopia. It misjudged Abiy [Abiy Ahmed]. It empowered Isaias [Isaias Afwerki]. Now the issue is whether a country of 110 million people can be prevented from unraveling.”

“From that day, Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] felt he was one of the most influential personalities in the world. He felt he had a lot of international support, and that if he went to war in Tigray, nothing would happen. And he was right.”

“The Tigrayans have been pushed a long way back. They have been pushed back through towns and villages that they fought extremely hard to take. They must have lost many lives in order to capture them.”

“In Shewa front, the Mezezo, Molale, Shewa Robit, Rasa and its surroundings have been freed from the terrorist TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front].”

“In terms of negotiation or ceasefire, there seems to be a growing distance between the two sides. With the conflict ongoing and impacting so many people, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. There's determination from both sides to win it 100 percent.”

“We won't give in until we bury the enemy. What we want to see is an Ethiopia that stands on our sacrifices - either to be Ethiopian or to be Ethiopia. The enemy doesn't have the standing to compete with us, we will win.”

“I was amazed when I heard. When a leader leaves his chair… and his throne it is to rescue his country. His focus is not to live, but to rescue this country, and I sobbed when he said 'follow me' and went to the front line.”

“We will continue to monitor the situation as it evolves, keeping in mind the safety of our staff and the need to continue to stand and deliver and to continue operations and support all the people that need our assistance.”

“Diplomats have to find a political way. Abiy [Abiy Ahmed] cannot win this war. The Ethiopian army is relatively weakened. They are losing cities and his going to the battlefront doesn't change anything - negotiations are the only way out of this.”

“Abiy's [Abiy Ahmed] mimicry of Ethiopia's war-time Emperors has taken on an all too palpable schizophrenic overtone. He has vowed to join 'his forces' in the battlefield in the honorable tradition of his 'glorious predecessors'. I would've dismissed this is yet another sick joke any day.”

“There will be change. What happened and is happening to our people, the abuses being meted out by this destructive, terrorist, robber group, can't continue.”

“Starting tomorrow, I will mobilise to the front to lead the defence forces. Those who want to be among the Ethiopian children who will be hailed by history, rise up for your country today. Let's meet at the battlefront.”

“Millions of people in northern Ethiopia are living on a knife-edge as the humanitarian crisis is growing deeper and wider. Across the country, needs are rising.”

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