The Horn of Africa Current Events Thread

[thatrapsfan]

Ethnic violence in southern Ethiopia kills 21, wounds 61 - state news | Reuters

Garre-Borana war looks like its getting bigger in Moyale (Somali-Oromo though both groups speak Oromo)

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Ethnic violence in southern Ethiopia kills 21, wounds 61 - state news | Reuters

Garre-Borana war looks like its getting bigger in Moyale (Somali-Oromo though both groups speak Oromo)

Abiy Ahmed is doing what about this?

 

[thatrapsfan]

Abiy Ahmed is doing what about this?

Pretending it doesnt exist

 

[JDH]

Ethnic violence in southern Ethiopia kills 21, wounds 61 - state news | Reuters

Garre-Borana war looks like its getting bigger in Moyale (Somali-Oromo though both groups speak Oromo)

has the new president of the somali region said anything?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Pretending it doesnt exist

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Abiy Ahmed is doing what about this?

Pretending it doesnt exist

Why should he do anything? His face is on stickers and shirts and buttons and all that.

Cult of personality on lock and no one is fighting the government and system that continues to pit them against one another.

 

[JDH]

Why should he do anything? His face is on stickers and shirts and buttons and all that.

Cult of personality on lock and no one is fighting the government and system that continues to pit them against one another.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

And we’re surrounded on all sides with this fukkery. S.Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen just passing refugees around back and forth.

 

[thatrapsfan]

has the new president of the somali region said anything?

He addressed it in Somali in an interview. Called for peace/calm between the two people with historical ties etc. Only the federal army has the power to intervene

 

[thatrapsfan]

'Nobody will kneel': Tigrayans defiant as Ethiopian leader cracks down | Reuters

“Abiy controls the international narrative but not necessarily the country,” Getachew said.

Is this a threat?

 

[JDH]

“Abiy controls the international narrative but not necessarily the country,” Getachew said.

Is this a threat?

more like a dare. he saying abiy dont want smoke

 

[thatrapsfan]

Sudan's president is first Arab leader to visit Syria since crisis | Reuters

Omar Bashir visits Damascus ( via a Russian Govt plane). This breh just trying all alliances possible. Roaming Free Agent

 

[thatrapsfan]

Protests are growing and have now reached the capital Khartoum. Bashir has survived a ton of these before, but their economic situation is especially precarious lately. The army may just pull a Mubarak on him










@Yung Pharaoh @Trajan @JDH @Misreeya

 

[Trajan]

Bashir has survived a ton of these before

Yh that's what I was going to say. These subsidy/cost of living protests flare up every once in a while in Khartoum. Bashir survived the Sudanese Intifada during the Arab Spring...I haven't been following this but I'm not sure what would be different this time


And unlike Mubarak his army have been happy to open fire on protesters in the past.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Yh that's what I was going to say. These subsidy/cost of living protests flare up every once in a while in Khartoum. Bashir survived the Sudanese Intifada during the Arab Spring...I haven't been following this but I'm not sure what would be different this time


And unlike Mubarak his army have been happy to open fire on protesters in the past.

Im just speculating, who knows Sanctions have been removed, but nobody has seen real benefits with inflation skyrocketing. Bashir had to shuffle his cabinet in response to pressure a few months ago, so he may be facing internal pressure within the ruling party/military Sudan’s economic crisis: Bashir dissolves government

This one started in the smaller towns in the North and the East before it arrived in Khartoum today, rather than vice-versa. It'll be interesting to see how army/security forces respond if it grows.