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#ethiopia

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Catherine Morris

“The silence over grave #SexualViolence…during the conflict in #Ethiopia’s… #Tigray region has enabled…similar atrocities in other conflict zones, says a report…by Physicians for Human Rights…& the Organisation for Justice & Accountability in the Horn of Africa... The report…documents systematic abuse in #Tigray…during the 2020-2022 war & how a lack of accountability led to revenge attacks in…Amhara & Afar regions...” | TNH thenewhumanitarian.org/news/20

#WarCrimes#CrimesAgainstHumanity
The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🏗️ Male village weaver #birds build hanging nests to attract mates, but learning to weave takes years of practice. This BBC Global footage from #Ethiopia's Blue Nile shows exactly how challenging the process can be.

Females prefer fresh green constructions over weathered brown ones and inspect each nest carefully. Failed attempts mean starting over.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/v

#tksst#video#africa
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

🐦🏗️ Male village weaver #birds build hanging nests to attract mates, but learning to weave takes years of practice. This BBC Global footage from #Ethiopia's Blue Nile shows exactly how challenging the process can be.

Females prefer fresh green constructions over weathered brown ones and inspect each nest carefully. Failed attempts mean starting over.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/v

#tksst#video#africa
SnowyCA :vivaldi_red:

East Africa’s geothermal green energy revolution

"The tectonic plates here - and across Africa’s Great East Rift Valley - are being forced together or wrenched apart, pushing super-heated steam close to the Earth’s surface.
Japan and other international partners have been working with Kenya to develop geothermal power for decades."

#Africa #Climate #Energy
#Japan #Kenya #ethiopia #Geology

euronews.com/business/2022/11/

euronews · East Africa’s geothermal green energy revolutionIn Kenya's Olkaria, on the edge of the Hell’s Gate National Park, are five power plants that produce around 800MW - that’s enough to power more than four million homes a year.
SherBeareth

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Tragique.

Per France 24:

At least 68 Ethiopian migrants are dead and 74 more are still missing after a ship sank off the coast of Yemen Sunday, the UN's migration agency said.

Tens of thousands of migrants cross the perilous waters between the Horn and Africa and Yemen every year in search of work in Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Gulf states.

#dangerouspassage #migration #ethiopia #yemen

france24.com/en/middle-east/20

FRANCE 24 · At least 68 African migrants dead and scores missing after ship capsizes off Yemen coastBy FRANCE 24
Voice of East

Somaliland’s Critical Minerals Offer To The US Might Move The Needle In Favour Of Recognition

Somaliland’s Critical Minerals Offer To The US Might Move The Needle In Favour Of Recognition

By Andrew Korybko

This proposal could pique Trump 2.0’s attention and ultimately catalyse a regional US pivot.

Bloomberg published an update late last month about Somaliland’s long-running quest for American recognition of its 1991 redeclaration of independence. Apart from offering to host a US military base, which isn’t anything new, it’s now offering a critical minerals deal too. This aligns with the global trend of countries from Pakistan to Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo leveraging their (in some cases only alleged) reserves of this resource as a means of securing continued US support.

Although Bloomberg noted that the State Department reaffirmed the US’ existing policy of “One Somalia”, the possibility remains that this could change depending on the region’s evolving dynamics. As regards Somalia, The Economist recently published a report about how “[its] state-building project is in tatters” after new terrorist gains and intensified regional centrifugal forces. Trump 2.0 might thus prefer to abandon Somalia in favour of pivoting towards more stable and prosperous Somaliland instead.

Any such decision would risk offending “Major Non-NATO Ally” Egypt, who Trump at first supported over Ethiopia amidst their Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute, given that Somalia relied on Egypt (and Eritrea) all across the last year as a “counterbalance” to Ethiopia. The context was Ethiopia’s (currently unfulfilled) MoU with Somaliland over recognition of its independence and stakes in at least one state company in exchange for a port of its own to diversify from dependence on Djibouti’s.

Ethiopia and Somalia then entered into a rapprochement earlier this year brought about by Turkish mediation, but reports circulated in early July that their talks had since stalled. Later last month, another report emerged that “Egypt Rejected The Price That It Has To Pay For The US Siding Against Ethiopia”, which was allegedly supporting Israel’s Gazan relocation plan and maybe even eventually hosting many, if not all, Gazans too. That created an opening for Ethiopia to engage in creative diplomacy with the US.

This could take the form of not ruling out participation in Israel’s Gazan relocation plan, per a recent Axios report and unlike what Egypt supposedly just did, though conditional on foreign funding of these refugees’ stay and only in the event that others (especially Muslim-majority states) take them in too. By keeping the US’ attention and thus signalling by contrast that it’s a more reliable regional partner than Egypt, Ethiopia might then suggest facilitating a deal with Somaliland, which could take a similar form.

Instead of the US unilaterally recognizing Somaliland, this could be coordinated with Ethiopia, all three’s shared Emirati partner, and India. The latter’s inclusion would satisfy its reported search for a regional naval base while crafting the symbolic optics of both the world’s oldest democracy (the US) and its largest one (India) simultaneously recognizing what would in that scenario be the world’s newest democracy. Ethiopia could sweeten the deal by proposing its own critical minerals deal with the US too.

These benefits – a military base in Somaliland, critical minerals deals with it and Ethiopia, and an Abraham Accords-like multilateral framework for Somaliland with the UAE, India, and then likely others too – could convince Trump to replace Egypt with Ethiopia and Somaliland as the US’ top regional partners. He might already be offended by Egypt outright rejecting the US’ reported Gaza-GERD quid pro quo so it’s possible that he’d be receptive to this deal if Ethiopia and Somaliland play their cards right.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management

#Africa#Congo#criticalMinerals
DoomsdaysCW

No Escape: #ClimateChange is a growing threat to people already fleeing war

12 November 2024

"People forced to flee war, violence and persecution are increasingly finding themselves on the front line of the global climate crisis, a new report warns, exposing them to a lethal combination of threats but without the funding and support to adapt.

"The report, released today by #UNHCR, the #UNRefugeeAgency, in collaboration with 13 expert organizations, research institutions and refugee-led groups, uses the latest data to show how climate shocks are interacting with conflict, pushing those who are already in danger into even more dire situations.

"Of the more than 120 million forcibly #displaced worldwide, three-quarters live in countries heavily impacted by climate change. Half are in places affected by both conflict and serious climate hazards, such as #Ethiopia, #Haiti, #Myanmar, #Somalia, #Sudan and #Syria.

"According to the report – No Escape: On the Frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and #ForcedDisplacement – by 2040 the number of countries facing extreme climate-related hazards is expected to rise from 3 to 65, the vast majority of which host displaced people. Similarly, most refugee settlements and camps are projected to experience twice as many days of dangerous heat by 2050.

“ 'For the world’s most vulnerable people, climate change is a harsh reality that profoundly affects their lives,' said UN High Commissioner for Refugees, #FilippoGrandi. 'The climate crisis is driving displacement in regions already hosting large numbers of people uprooted by conflict and insecurity, compounding their plight and leaving them with nowhere safe to go.'

"For example, the devastating conflict in Sudan has forced millions of people to flee, including 700,000 who have crossed into #Chad, which has hosted refugees for decades and yet is one of the countries most exposed to climate change. At the same time, many who fled the fighting but remained in Sudan are at risk of further displacement because of #SevereFlooding that has blighted the country.

"Similarly, 72 per cent of #Myanmar’s refugees have sought safety in #Bangladesh, where natural hazards such as #cyclones and #flooding, are classified as extreme.

" 'In our region, where so many people have been displaced for so many years, we see the effects of climate change before our very eyes,' said #GraceDorong, a #ClimateActivist and former refugee living in #SouthSudan. 'I hope the voices of the people in this report help decision-makers to understand that if not addressed, forced displacement – and the multiplying effect of climate change – will get worse. But if they listen to us, we can be part of the solution, too.' "

unsdg.un.org/latest/stories/no

#ClimateRefugees#War#Genocide
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