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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · 19h

Today marks five years since the start of the Tigray War.

I remember as if it were yesterday. The faces of those who lost their lives remain vivid.

Still asking myself what we could have done differently.

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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · 1d

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Very interesting ideas by Bill Gates on fighting climate change and prioritizing human development! @billgates.bsky.social

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Joost Bastmeijer @joostbastmeijer.bsky.social · 6d

De eerste verschrikkelijke video’s die uit El Fasher komen, doen de vrees over een nieuwe etnische massaslachting sterk toenemen. Ik vertelde aan Yassin Boutayeb wat we hier in Port Soedan meekrijgen van de inname van deze belangrijke stad in Darfur: www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...

Niet de humanitaire, maar de zakelijke belangen van het Westen bepalen de reactie op gruwelijkheden in Soedan, ziet correspondent Joost Bastmeijer

Met de verovering van een legerhoofdkwartier in de Soedanese stad El Fasher door de RSF-paramilitairen heeft de burgeroorlog in het land een nieuw hoogtepunt bereikt. El Fasher was het laatste bolwerk...

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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · 3d

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VN belegt spoedvergadering na massaslachting in Soedanees ziekenhuis: "460 mensen geëxecuteerd door RSF" | VRT NWS: nieuws

De VN-Veiligheidsraad heeft een spoedvergadering belegd over de situatie in Soedan, nadat steeds meer details naar buiten komen over wreedheden van de Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Volgens hulporganisat...

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 5d

Sudan |We are deeply saddened by the killing of five Sudanese Red Crescent Society volunteers in Bara, North Kordofan.

Humanitarian workers must never be a target. Our hearts are with their families, colleagues, and all those they served with compassion and courage. ms.spr.ly/63324t8NCe

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Le Monde Afrique @afrique.lemonde.fr · 5d

Soudan : l’insupportable passivité internationale face à la tragédie

Alors que que la prise de la ville d’El-Fasher par les paramilitaires, dans la région du Darfour, constitue une nouvelle escalade dans la guerre fratricide qui ravage le pays, aucune des grandes puissances qui se disent officiellement préoccupées par le sort des Soudanais n’a jamais demandé le moindre compte à ceux qui entretiennent le chaos.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur - trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.

'Trapped and terrified': Genocide warnings after RSF's Darfur advance

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur - trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp Fears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in Sudan’s civil war. The group said on Sunday that it had seized control of the army’s main base in the city in Darfur, where famine was declared in a displacement camp last year. It then released a statement saying it had “extended control over the city of El Fasher from the grip of mercenaries and militias”. Continue reading...

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 9d

In 2024, the IOM tracked 446,000 people leaving the Horn of Africa via the “Eastern route”, crossing into Yemen to reach the Arabian Gulf. Ninety-six percent were Ethiopian, and a third of those were Tigrayan – although Tigrayans make up only 6% of Ethiopia’s population.

The exodus out of Tigray

Young people are leaving en masse – and don’t know if they’ll ever come back.

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Le Monde Afrique @afrique.lemonde.fr · 24d

Mulatu Astatke, le père de l’éthio-jazz, toujours en mission à 81 ans

Le musicien revisite dans son dernier album son répertoire et continue de se battre pour faire reconnaître la contribution de l’Ethiopie à la musique mondiale.

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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · 26d

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Sudan is bleeding in silence: A humanitarian crisis the world cannot ignore

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

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Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · Oct 1

Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of 01/10/2025.

-This past month the SAF achieved some critical victories in northern Kordofan, seizing control of Bara and pushing the RSF further away from the city of El Obeid. But the RSF assault on El Fasher has only intensified

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · Sep 28

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215
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INVESTIGATION
The Djiboutian massacre
Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its
border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists.
Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of
the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s
tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity.
Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters.
zecharias zelalem
On 30 January this year, a drone manned
from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a
funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote,
semi-arid village near the Ethiopia
Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a
second bomb dropped. And then a third.
At least eight people were killed,
including three children. Several
others were injured. Given the village’s
remoteness, the incident might have
gone unreported if graphic images of
the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian
social media.
A statement from the Djibouti’s
defence ministry said the drone struck
rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(Frud), a Djiboutian political party with
a military wing. It has been fighting for
Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s.
The Afar are a community split by the
colonial border separating Ethiopia,
Djibouti, and Eritrea.
“Eight terrorists were neutralised on
site,” said a Djibouti military statement.
“Unfortunately, collateral damage
among Djiboutian civilians in the area
has been documented.”
International media, including Voice
of America, Agence France Presse, and
Radio France Internationale reported
this version of events.
Now, new findings from an open
In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was
injured in the drone strike.
source investigation by The Continent
reveal a different reality.
The bombs landed inside Ethiopia,
not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed
fighters – were killed. That distinction
matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again
tolerating a foreign military targeting its
own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during
the Tigray conflict.
A transparent lie
Even before the ink could dry on the
Djiboutian military’s statement, The
Addis Standard and human rights groups
in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike
had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s
Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an
adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl
Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports
in now-deleted social media posts.
The Continent got to work to figure out
what really happened. Over the course
of eight months, we collected eyewitness
testimonies, interviewed human rights
activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and
examined images and footage from the
strike. Our findings align with those of
Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed
Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the
site of the strike.
The ammunition residue found on the
night of the strike confirms the bomb
was manufactured by Roketsan, a state
run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye.
Former US army explosives expert
Trevor Ball identified t…

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Gerrit Kurtz @gerritkurtz.bsky.social · Sep 26

In many African armed conflicts, estimates of fatalities differ widely, including in #Sudan and regarding the war in Northern #Ethiopia 2020-22. While numbers matter, it is important not to present sometimes mere guesses at the same level as mortality studies.
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Measuring mortality is getting even harder in Africa

One estimate puts deaths in the war in Tigray at 5,325; another at 600,000

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · Sep 25

Debate: Ethiopians view the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a development right long denied by colonial-era rules. Egyptians call it an existential threat. We asked a contributor from each country to weigh in.

Debate: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Ethiopians view the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a development right long denied by colonial-era rules. Egyptians call it an existential threat.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · Sep 24

Thousands of people have gone missing without a trace in Sudan’s war, exacerbating a decades-old pattern that leaves their families trapped between hope and despair.

Vanishing returns: Sudan’s ‘disappearing’ crisis

Thousands of people have gone missing without a trace in Sudan’s war, exacerbating a decades-old pattern that leaves their families trapped between hope and despair.

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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · Sep 22

Fantastic show yesterday evening by Mulatu Astatke, the father of the #Ethiojazz, at the Ancienne Belgique Concert Hall in Brussels! What an honour to be able to listen to Mulatu and his band of world class jazz musicians!

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · Sep 13

A boat capsized yesterday (Friday) in DR Congo, killing at least 86 people. In the past 5 years, boat disasters have killed at least 646 in DR Congo, the deadliest for boat tragedies over this period, compared to about 250 in Bangladesh, nearly 200 in Indonesia, and about 150 in the Philippines.

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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Happy New Year to all Ethiopian friends! May the new year 2018 EC bring lots of peace and happinness!

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · Sep 10

Ethiopië opent controversiële megadam, tot onvrede van Soedan en Egypte

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Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Burundi expulses Country Director of Belgian Development Agency #Enabel after reposting article published by @thecontinent.org

Burundi zet directeur Belgische ontwikkelingshulp het land uit omdat hij kritisch nieuwsartikel deelde

Burundi geeft de landendirecteur van het Belgische ontwikkelingsagentschap Enabel 48 uur de tijd om het land te verlaten. De reden: de directeur deelde een nieuwsartikel over brandstoftekorten via sociale media. Belgisch buitenlandminister Prévot noemt het een “disproportionele maatregel”.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · Sep 5

Market in Gondar, Ethiopia
ca. 1936-41

#archivesxt

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · Sep 5

📍 Sudan | Armed conflict has forced millions of people to flee again and again, each time leaving behind homes, relatives, and a sense of security.

Daniel Gerard O’Malley, ICRC head of delegation in Sudan, shares 👇🏽

"People have had to move once, twice, three times. Every time people are forced to flee, there’s a psychological impact, a loss of livelihoods, and a loss of property. This is the tragedy of Sudan: not a single Sudanese person today can say they haven’t been affected by conflict.”

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Le Monde Afrique @afrique.lemonde.fr · Sep 5

Est de la RDC : une enquête de l’ONU relève de possibles crimes de guerre de toutes les parties

Malgré l’accord de paix des gouvernements congolais et rwandais, signé en juin à Washington, la violence persiste entre le groupe armé antigouvernemental M23, soutenu par le Rwanda, et l’armée congolaise ou ses affiliés.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · Sep 4

House construction

ca. 1938
Kano, Nigeria
-Quai Branly
#archivesxt

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