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When the shrill of heavy earthmoving machinery crept towards Elias Mlamboās riverside banana plantations in February, the sudden brownish color of the…
The Horn of Africa is moving toward another potentially devastating war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. This danger did not emerge overnight. For…
Something important is happening across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Wars that appear local are drawing in actors from…
I am not a military expert, but I do not read the withdrawal of Tigrayan forces from towns as straightforward evidence that…
After the collapse of state infrastructure and services amid war in Sudan, mutual aid networks stepped up to fill the gaps in…
What is happening in Ethiopia is no longer adequately described as another round of the Tigray war. The fighting grew out of…
In April 2023, the war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia; its impact has…
No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no…
As I sat and viewed Haile Gerima’s latest film, Black Lions, Roman Wolves both at home via streaming and at its North…
During a recent dialogue convened by Liberation Alliance Africaās Building Knowledge Bridges Community of Practice on Recentering African Feminist Epistemologies to Prevent…
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