Starving Tigray
The war in Tigray has comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food systems.
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WPF Blog: Reinventing Peace
- Thabo Mbeki on the AU, politics of peace, and Ethiopia October 13, 2021WPF is honored to have our report, ‘African Politics, African Peace,’ on the African Union’s role in mediating conflict, mentioned in an address by former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on 12 October 2021, before the UN Security Council. Below is the text of his speech, “Peacebuilding and sustainable peace: diversity, statebuilding [...] The […]World Peace Foundation
- Neither Impartial nor Independent: The Joint UN-EHRC Human Rights Investigation in Tigray October 11, 2021By Chidi Odinkalu, Paulos Tesfagiorgis, Alex de Waal and Delia Burns In March, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) established a joint investigation into alleged violations of human rights committed during the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. Controversially, the partner was the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The decision has been heavily criticized [...] […]World Peace Foundation
AL JAZEERA | October 1, 2021
Alex de Waal joins Salah Eddine Elzien to discuss the widening split between Sudan's military and civilian leade
THE ATLANTIC | September 29, 2021
“A pandemic is a course correction to the trajectory of civilization,” Alex de Waal, of Tufts University and the author of New Pandemics, Old Politics.
ROLL CALL | September 22, 2021
If a cease-fire is not reached soon, de Waal said he fears a point of no return that could lead to the splintering of Ethiopia.
BBC NEWS | August 3, 2021
"Ethiopia goes through historical cycles of being robust and then precarious and it's at one of those very, very precarious moments," says Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation in the US.
Al JAZE
ERA | July 2, 2021
Alex de Waal writes on Abiy’s decision on humanitarian access and a country that could hold together, or a starvation blockade and national disintegration.
BBC NEWS | June 30, 2021
A former army general has found himself at the centre of a rebellion against the Ethiopian government in the mountainous Tigray region, writes Alex de Waal.