Horn Highlights: UN SR says repression in Eritrea continues, Eritrea votes against UNGA resolution to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, No supplies in Tigray
7 Mar 2022

Horn Highlights: UN SR says repression in Eritrea continues, Eritrea votes against UNGA resolution to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, No supplies in Tigray

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In this week’s Horn Highlights: UN Special Rapporteur says repression in Eritrea continues; Eritrea one of four countries to vote with Russia over Ukraine invasion; OCHA reports to have run out of supplies in Tigray; Eritrean refugees isolated in Ethiopia; Ethiopian PM urges restraint in Ukraine after abstaining from UN vote; Ethio-Sudanese border crossing reopens; Ethiopian journalists publish open letter on press freedom regression; Mekelle university staff unpaid in over a year; 20 people killed in Benishangul Gumuz; UN warns of drought in Ethiopia; Sudan open to Russian Naval Base following Hemedti visit to Russia; UN High Commissioner oral update on Sudan;UN warns of global warming effects in Africa.

Horn Highlights: Armed men attack a refugee camp killing five, GERD dam starts producing electricity, AU-EU call for a joint 2030 vision
21 Feb 2022

Horn Highlights: Armed men attack a refugee camp killing five, GERD dam starts producing electricity, AU-EU call for a joint 2030 vision

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In this week’s Horn Highlights: Joint AU-EU statement emerges from Summit; Eritrean refugees killed in Afar, says UN; Investigation shows Facebook continues to fail to take action on posts inciting ethnic violence in Ethiopia; GERD starts to produce electricity; Last UN staff freed in Ethiopia; CPJ says journalist about to be charged despite lifting of emergency state; New 243-page report about Ethiopia conflict; Ethiopian government will not delist TPLF as terror organisation, states spokesperson; Health in Tigray critical, hospital warns; National dialogue commissioners appointed; Eritrean opposition indicates Eritrean troops being moved; Hospital patient killed in Sudan by stray bullet.

Horn Highlights: UN and EU representatives’ cautious peace optimism, Refugees in Addis summoned to Embassy, EU seeks MS investment ahead of Summit
14 Feb 2022

Horn Highlights: UN and EU representatives’ cautious peace optimism, Refugees in Addis summoned to Embassy, EU seeks MS investment ahead of Summit

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In this week’s Horn Highlights: Conference on AU-EU collaboration, with peace building as key precondition; Fears that stolen artefacts from Tigray are being sold online; Eritrean refugees summoned to Addis embassy; UN Deputy SG hopeful a peace agreement can be reached; map analysis of the conflict between June-December 2021; Tigrayan prisoners extorted by guards, witnesses say; WHO sends medical supplies to Tigray by air; OLF accusses government of torture of detainees; EU, US and others condemn Sudan for political arrests; former head Eritrean Orthodox church dies in detention; EU seeks more Member State investment for AU-EU collaboration; Blinken speaks to AU Commission Chairperson.