University of Gothenburg
Göteborg, Sweden
Introduction
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. Sir Winston Churchill
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally
the major anxiety of their people in their time [italics mine].This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith
In the summer of 2018, only a few months after Abiy Ahmed had been swept into power, I began to have a gut feeling that something was not quite right with a leader widely considered as Africa’s brightest hope for the future.
Aid in Danger Bi-Weekly News Brief, 07-20 April 2021
Format
01 January-23 March 2021 Aid Worker KKA is now available for download on our website or on HDX.
Insecurity Insight continuously updates data on aid workers killed, kidnapped or arrested (KKA). Updated data includes new and historic reports identified in open-sources and verified security incidents submitted by Aid in Danger partner agencies.
Past editions:
Safety, security and access incidents
Incidents of threats and violence affecting aid workers and aid delivery.
Africa
Central African Republic
07 April 2021: In the outskirts of Bocaranga city, Ouham Pende prefecture, an INGO team was kidnapped by Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) rebels. Three staff members were assaulted and had their phone and cash stolen. The perpetrators pepper-sprayed the driver’s eyes. The team was released a few hours later.
ETHIOPIA: Church Calls Attention to Suffering of People amid Ethnic Clashes
By CISA
ADDIS ABABA, APRIL 30, 2021 (CISA)- The Catholic Bishops Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) has asked the Government to pay attention to the troubled North Shoa Zone and to the suffering of the people following ethnic clashes between the Amhara and Oromo.
A delegation from the conference, led by Berhaneyesus Demerew Cardinal Souraphiel the president of CBCE met the leaders of North Shoa Zone to discuss the impact of the conflict on the livelihood of the people.
“The government should pay attention to the return of the displaced people and ensure that they live in the area. The Catholic Church is ready to contribute to peace and reconciliation,” reads April 27 report by the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat.
Daily Monitor
Friday April 23 2021
In this file photo taken on March 1, 2021 A woman leans on the wall of a damaged house which was shelled as federal-aligned forces entered the city, in Wukro, north of Mekele. Ethiopia s humanitarian situation has deteriorated and sexual violence is still being used as a weapon of war. PHOTO/AFP
Summary
The violence which kicked off last week hit the North Shoa and Oromo special zones, the latter of which is populated mainly by Oromos, the country s largest group.
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The latest bout of ethnic violence in Ethiopia s Amhara region has left scores dead and displaced hundreds of thousands, a federal official told the media on Friday.
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