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Mobilisation for a foreign war: Eritrean troops will not decide the outcome of Ethiopia’s war with Tigray

Posted on October 19, 2022 by trmdrag

Eritrea is often cast as the villain in the Horn of Africa. The recent mobilisation of Eritrean reservists to fight in the Ethiopian province of Tigray seems once more proof of its pariah status. But such a view is short-sighted … Continue reading →

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The end game – or just the beginning? Some thoughts on the Ethiopian federal offensive against Tigray

Posted on November 26, 2020 by trmdrag

Often it is all about history when conflict erupts in the Horn (or anywhere else for that matter). The narrative of the start of the conflict is a frequently rehearsed one: allegedly the TPLF had attacked a federal military base. … Continue reading →

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‘Famine’ in Ethiopia – and ‘Foreigners’ there to help?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by trmdrag

A day before I will board a flight to Addis Ababa, partly to attend the bi-annual World Conference on Humanitarian Studies organised for the 4th time by the International Humanitarian Studies Association, Ethiopia is in the news again for not-yet … Continue reading →

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Visual politics in action: How the image of a dead boy on a beach did little to change foreign policy or attitudes towards refugees

Posted on September 5, 2015 by trmdrag

A few iconic images have shaped responses to humanitarian disaster and war. Who does not remember the naked girl in Vietnam, running away from a Napalm attack – captured by Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong Ut on 8 June 1972 … Continue reading →

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From Band Aid to South Sudan: Celebrity-humanitarians, ‘Common–sense humanitarianism’ and the lasting legacies of a BBC broadcast

Posted on October 26, 2014 by trmdrag

It is the 23rd of October 1984. BBC television shows the first of a series of broadcasts from Korem, a hamlet in Ethiopia presented as the epicentre of the famine that grips the country. For those of a certain generation, … Continue reading →

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