Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Impunity Machine: Repression As System, Violence As Strategy

Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Impunity Machine: Repression As System, Violence As Strategy

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The U.S. State Department's newly released 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Ethiopia reads like a haunting déjà vu. For the fifth consecutive year, Washington has cataloged the same grim realities: extrajudicial killings, mass displacement, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence as a weapon of war, and the suffocation of civic space. The details shift with each annual publication, but the narrative arc remains the same. Ethiopia's crisis has not been cyclical--it has

Sudan: The Two Rival Governments Threaten to Prolong the Sudanese Civil War

Sudan: The Two Rival Governments Threaten to Prolong the Sudanese Civil War

[Agenzia Fides] Khartoum -- At the first meeting of the Sudanese transitional government in the capital Khartoum, two months after its recapture by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under the command of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the focus of the debate was on post-war reconstruction, economic recovery, improving the security situation, and supporting the voluntary return of displaced persons to their areas of origin.