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How the U.S. Destabilized the Horn of Africa

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2024 In 2018, the leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia signed a regional cooperation agreement that raised great hope in the Horn, but now, six years, later, it lies in tatters. The Horn of Africa and its key waterways are the geostrategic interface between Europe, Africa, and Asia. They have[…]

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Eritrea Celebrates Freedom

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 9, 2023 Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history. I was honored to speak at the 49th annual National Council of Eritrean Americans conference and festival recently held in Tacoma, Washington. Black Agenda Report has always been a staunch defender[…]

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Eritrea, a Bright Spot on a Planet Near the Edge of Armageddon

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 9, 2023 Last week I attended the Eritrean American Festival in the Seattle/Tacoma area, at the Tacoma Convention Center, as did Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley and Breakthrough News Host and Producer Eugene Puryear. I arrived after they had spoken, on the day I was scheduled to speak at[…]

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Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, And The IMF

by Ann Garrison and Robert J. Prince, published on Popular Resistance, May 18, 2023 In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.”    Restructuring associated with WB and IMF loans becomes a millstone around the neck of drowning economies. [jb] The US is holding up Ethiopia’s request for a $2[…]

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US Still Imposing Illegal, Unilateral Sanctions on Eritrea

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12 2023 Yemane Ghebreab, advisor to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, explains how US economic sanctions impact the Eritrean people. The Ethiopian army decisively defeated the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in November 2022, after a two-year war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced over five million people.[…]

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Eritrea vs. AFRICOM: Defending Sovereignty in the Face of Imperialist Aggression

by Dina Asfaha and Tunde Osazua, published on Black Agenda Report, December 1, 2021 The rapid expansion of AFRICOM on the African continent should be a cause for concern as African nations are quickly surrendering their sovereignty to the US. As the only country without a relationship to AFRICOM, Eritrea bears the brunt of US vilification. We must salute Eritrea’s[…]

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Ethiopia and Eritrea: Elias Amare on US Sanctions and the UNSC

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Star News, August 30, 2021 Watch Ben Norton’s show with a recent update (9/20) on the US condemnation of Ethiopia and Eritrea  HERE.  [jb] US Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman recently returned from a tour of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the United Arab Emirates. On the following Monday, the US State[…]

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The TPLF Attack on Ethiopia Contains the Accumulated Evil of the War

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 23, 2021 The western nations that Ethiopia previously kow-towed to claim national government forces attacked Tigrayan troops first, when precisely the opposite occurred. “The US and its allies haven’t even been able to get past the first step—UN Security Council censure—with regard to Syria, then Burundi, and now, Ethiopia.” “War is[…]

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Don’t Allow Another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa

Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, June 24, 2021 Paternalistic U.S. government political posturing toward Africa has a history of turning into fatal consequences for the masses of African peoples. A decade ago, several of the same individuals who now hold positions in the Biden administration were accomplices in the U.S.-led NATO decimation of Libya, which was rationalized under the[…]

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