Posts by: Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
Five months on, the Permanent Cessation of Hostilities between the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray forces is, for the most part, holding. Officially, the total blockade has been lifted. But the Ethiopian Government is micro-managing an ongoing siege.
Banks have opened but customers still cannot access their accounts. Withdrawals are limited as banks are not […]
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Four months after the Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in Pretoria, serious discussion about how to assist the huge numbers of people in need in Tigray, Ethiopia, and reconstruct the shattered infrastructure and economy of the region is only beginning.
On March 16, the College of Law and Governance Studies at Mekelle […]
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Mulugeta Gebrehiwot and Alex de Waal
Tigray sued for peace to save Tigrayans from starvation. More humanitarian aid is now arriving and services are being restored in many areas. These are just the first steps.
In a memo circulated today, we look at […]
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The experience of a psychotherapist treating survivors of sexual violence in Tigray
This blog contribution describes the author’s discussions with Dr. Feven Tekelehaimanot, a Tigrayan psychotherapist who has been working with Tigrayan survivors of sexual violence perpetrated during the on-going war. The essay includes details of survivors’ accounts of violence that readers may find disturbing.
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The city is peaceful with the exception of fear from the violence of the state and its collaborators—the immediate fear being air raids and enemy infiltration for sabotage focused to terrorize the population.
Continue Reading →Sitting in the coffee shops, you may find elderly men and women, decently dressed, standing on your side not looking into your eyes but mumbling a few words asking for support. You usually don’t hear the exact words, as they don’t know how to beg. They never before asked for alms in their entire life. Probably, many of them were being supported by their kids working elsewhere in Ethiopia or in the diaspora. Today, they no longer have any means for contacting their family and cannot get any money transferred.
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