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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The US Is Determined to Drive a Wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea
23 Nov 2022
The US seems willing to accept Ethiopia’s defeat of its former puppet, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), if it can just drive a wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Hermela Aregawi
Ethiopia Peace Deal: U.S. Proxy War By Other Means?
23 Nov 2022
The people of Ethiopia are understandably relieved that a peace agreement now exists between their government and the TPLF. But aspects of the agreement may allow the U.S. to continue the conflict…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia Nears Victory in its Civil War, US Scrambles to Control the Outcome
26 Oct 2022
War between Ethiopia and the TPLF may be coming to an end, but the US is using sanctions to have the final word despite the apparent defeat of its proxy.
Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion
An Inversion of Truth: the TPLF and its Commitment to Peace
26 Oct 2022
The conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF has been marked by a well coordinated disinformation campaign. The effectiveness of that campaign should not forgotten, even as the parties…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor , John Philpot
Sanctioning the Horn of Africa
07 Oct 2022
Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia have suffered from a variety of U.S. interventions over many years. Proxy wars and unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, are the tools used to prevent these nations…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio September 16, 2022
16 Sep 2022
Black politics in San Francisco Part 2, FBI surveillance of Aretha Franklin, and how the U.S. drives conflicts in Horn of Africa nations.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The U.S. Instigates Conflict in the Horn of Africa
16 Sep 2022
Thomas C. Mountain is an historian and educator known as a widely published independent journalist in Africa. He explains U.S. interference against Ethiopia and Eritrea and how the TPLF, Tigray…
Hermela Aregawi
The “International Community” is an Unreliable Broker in Ethiopia Conflict
31 Aug 2022
The ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has been fueled by support from the United States. It is yet another proxy war which has brough great suffering to thousands of people.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Democrats Aren’t the Only Game in Town for Ethiopian American Voters
15 Jun 2022
Teddy Fikre is an Ethiopian-American independent candidate for Congress in Virginia. He discusses the challenges that his community faces in advocating for their homeland through U.S. electoral…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part 5
01 Jun 2022
Ann Garrison ends her reporting from the Horn of Africa with updates on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the conflict between Ethiopia and the TPLF.