Adoshem Reports

What we do know about the current humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region. By Joseph Tabung Banah Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2019, had declared war on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) leadership, at the time when most Ethiopians overwhelmingly wanted peace. Since then, the Ethiopian […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah At least 15 Ethiopian soldiers are currently seeking asylum in South Sudan. The 15 are confirmed to be Ethiopian peacekeepers that refused to return to their home country after serving as UN Peacekeepers in South Sudan. The information, made public Tuesday in Juba, revealed that the 15 soldiers are natives of […]

What we know about the killing of Italian ambassador to the DRC By Joseph Tabung Banah Italy’s Ambassador to the DRC is dead. He was killed after the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was attacked in eastern DRC’s conflict region, neighbouring Rwanda. According to the DRC’s North Kivu provincial governor, Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, Ambassador […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah The return of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to Guinea, a West African nation, is a major public health problem to the entire sub-region as authorities are struggling to control the spread of the virus along their respective borders. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the cases, which were confirmed […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah The DRC’s President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo is now heading the AU. He took office at the end of a two-day quiet summit, held through videoconference from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The summit ended on 7 January, 2021 with Tshisekedi replacing South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa as Head of the AU. Mr. Tshisekedi […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah The bloody conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is continuing and the international community is worried about the large-scale killings of civilians and the wide-spread atrocities committed by the parties in conflict. The situation is said to be disgusting to the human eye and voices are starting to rise to denounce war […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah The United Nations Joint Office for Human Rights (UNJHRO) is worried about the killings of the civilian population and continuous violence against communities in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In a report made public on Friday, 15 January 2021, the UNJHRO says, at least 647 […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah The mini regional summit bringing together the Presidents of Uganda, Rwanda, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has finally taken place after being postponed several times. The virtual meeting, held by videoconference on Wednesday, 7 October 2020, saw the participation of Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi, from the North […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah UN’s Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has documented how starvation is being intentionally used as a weapon of war in the country’s civil war.  The revelation was made public in a fresh report published Tuesday. As the brutal conflict continues, the UN-backed human rights panel says both Government and […]

By Joseph Tabung Banah Sudanese transitional government and some rebel leaders have signed a peace agreement. The signing ceremony took place on Saturday, 3 October 2020 in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Although the two well-established rebel groups did not sign the peace agreement, there are some ripples of hope that the peace deal would […]