@jowedekind
Researcher, currently @abi-freiburg.bsky.social + freelance. The nature of the state and state–nature in #Ethiopia. Political ecology, land conflicts, agrarian change, resource frontiers, and transitional justice. Berlin based, Addis raised.
I’m excited to share some professional news: my new book is coming out this February! It will be published open access with University of California Press.
www.ucpress.edu/books/immuni...
A big thank-you to all of you who made this project possible.
@ucpress.bsky.social
I guest wrote this week's War Room, our defence newsetter, on the lessons for the Horn of Africa from Europe, 1914 👇
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Our students joined @aljazeera.com Head to Head with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewing Getachew Reda who once accused Ethiopian PM Abiy of atrocities in Tigray but now he serves as his adviser.
Ruth Otim argues his contradictions reveal Ethiopia’s deeper leadership failures
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La méthode bulldozer de la maire d’Addis Abeba, Adanech Abiebie, pour moderniser la capitale éthiopienne
Inside Ethiopia’s Fano Insurgency
Once allies of the federal government, the #Fano played a central role in the #Tigray war. However, the Pretoria Agreement has reshuffled the deck: former allies are now enemies, with the #Amhara militiamen fighting the ENDF. 1/
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Hunderttausende Menschen wurden aus Äthiopiens Hauptstadt vertrieben, um Platz für Parks, Fahrradwege und einen Palast zu schaffen. Satellitenbilder zeigen das Ausmaß.
🥳 Out now: The 21st Africa Yearbook @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
With contributions by ABI director & AYB editor @mehler.bsky.social , Benedikt Kamski, @jowedekind.bsky.social, and ABI associate Erik Plänitz.
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🆕Oliver Bakewell explores how Ethiopians & Eritreans in #Nairobi, #Khartoum & #AddisAbaba form diasporic ties shaped by local political & economic conditions, focusing on improving their lives rather than driving socio-political change.
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NEW REPORT | MINOR DEMARCATIONS MICRO-DAMS—MAJOR DRAMA?
@jowedekind.bsky.social and Kedir Jamal examine how admin changes, micro-dams and regional rivalries in the Oromia–Somali borderlands risk reigniting conflict and unsettling fragile peace.
Read more: bit.ly/4mm7WtI
#Ethiopia
Whether or not Tigray’s negotiators could have secured a better deal, the main sticking point now driving the TPLF apart is the failure to return home nearly one million displaced people – a key part of the peace deal.
With no incentive to practice restraint, drone atrocities across Africa are becoming increasingly frequent, causing friction with Western partners. In Ethiopia, this has paved the way for Turkey and Russia to expand their influence. @zekuzelalem.bsky.social @ecfr.eu
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My report for @aljazeera.com from Awra Amba, a utopian and pacifist community in the central highlands of Ethiopia.
They have won awards for their peacemaking and conflict resolution - but they have been caught in the crossfire of Ethiopia's latest civil war.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
New Alert 📰Tensions between #Ethiopia and #Eritrea are on the rise, and risk escalating into a military confrontation, with 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 for the Horn region.
📚 Read more ⤵️
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The cover of Issue 193 of The Continent (8 March 2025) is illustrated by political cartoonist Gado. It shows a boiling cauldron labelled TPLF - the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The fire beneath it is fuelled by an arsenal of weapons and the Pretoria Accord. Emerging from the pot are the words, " Tigray waits for another war". Noxious green fumes are rising in the shape of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki who, in the last war, joined forces to fight against the Tigrayans. In this illustration they are holding guns to each others' heads and pointing fingers of blame at each other. #Africa #Ethiopia #Tigray #TPLF #Eritrea #PretoriaAccord #TheContinent #AfricanJournalism
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 193 of The Continent.
In Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, everyday life is overshadowed by the threat of returning to war.
Eritrea has long been subject to the whims of two more powerful nations: its neighbor Ethiopia, and the United States. Its geography made it a valuable asset, especially during the Cold War.
Tigray IDPs Enduring Squalid Living Conditions
Acc to the Global Shelter Cluster, highlighted the dire conditions of the more than 900,000 #Tigray IDPs—18% of whom face “severe overcrowding and lack of privacy,” which “pose(s) serious health and protection risks.” 1/
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genuinely curious.
Wtf, no.
Interesting. 🤔 Can you explain why not?
You can watch No Other Land and spread it far and wide bsky.app/profile/jann...
"Over 85 % of CSOs in #Ethiopia have paused operations following the Trump administration’s clampdown on #USAID" www.thereporterethiopia.com/44011/
Recent ethnic cleansing campaigns in Sudan and Ethiopia remind us Zero Discrimination Day (1 March) still marks
a distant aspiration. Based on 46,269 face-to-face interviews conducted by Afrobarometer, we may be losing ground. Via @thecontinent.org
#OtD 1 Mar 1896 Ethiopian forces decisively defeated Italian invaders at the battle of Adwa. Up to 70% of Italy's invasion force of around 6000 troops were captured or killed. Italy then gave up its claim of Ethiopia, and also surrendered some of Eritrea stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7...
Fun trivia: Zelenskyy partly grew up in the copper mining town of Erdenet in Mongolia because his father worked for a mining company.
When Sudan’s war broke out in 2023, about 12,500 Sudanese people crossed into Ethiopia. Initially, they were sheltered in the Awlala and Kumer refugee camps. But Ethiopia was experiencing its own conflict. As the fighting intensified, refugees became easy targets.
Decarbonisation threatens the very structure of intl order, founded on fossil-fuelled economic growth and interdependence
Can Climate action survive geopolitical fragmentation? Can it thrive on a tightrope?
@picharbonnier.bsky.social interview on War Ecology
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Amhara Region Cracks Down on Qemant Minority
The Qemant ethnic minority have been in conflict with the authorities in Amhara over land disputes. Some of their representatives are being prosecuted on terror charges and are accused of supporting Fano rebels.
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Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:
