Photo source: Polish News By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront July 2022 witnessed Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister,  accusing a rebel group of carrying a massacre of civilians in the western Oromia state. The Oromo Liberation Army has been inflicting damage on civilians as its fighters fled an offensive by security forces in Oromia, as per reports by Al Jazeera. There were a lot of citizens living in the Qellen Wollega zone of Oromia that have been massacred. Rebels had also managed to attack Gambella, the capital. According to officials, the rebels have been killing the ethnic Amharas. Around three hundred bodies were collected, although there still could be more and their whereabouts are known to no one. Many also believe that places like Tole Kebelle are vulnerable to more rounds of attacks if security forces leave from there. Michele Bachelet, the United Nations rights chief, has called on the Ethiopian authorities to conduct ‘prompt, impartial and thorough’ i...

Photo source: Reuters By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront W hen ten thousand Ethiopian protestors took the streets of Adis Ababa, in May 2021, the message was clear. They wanted an end to Washington’s sanctions on the government, and its army officials, over the war in Tigray, a conflict in the north of Ethiopia, that has claimed thousands of lives, and displaced more than two million people.  Some Ethiopians, at home and abroad, staged a “Hands Off Ethiopia” social media campaign, where they appealed foreign countries to stop “meddling in Ethiopia’s affairs”. But, the silence wouldn't help the situation.  The seeds of conflict in Tigray were sown in November 2020, Back then, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, for ending a long war with Eritrea, had sent federal troops into Tigray for a military offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the northern region’s ruling leftist political cabal, that had dominated national ...