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‘Look after my babies': In Ethiopia, a Tigray family’s quest
(Archivs: AP, 2021-04-23)
Kidnappings, looting reported in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in weeks after truce
(PBS, 2022-11-27)
Kidnappings, looting reported in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in weeks after truce
Allies of Ethiopia’s federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers. The accounts raise fresh concern about alleged atrocities more than three weeks after the warring parties signed a truce that diplomats and others hoped would bring an end to suffering in the embattled region that’s home to more than 5 million people.
(PBS, 2022-11-22)
Warring parties have agreed to a truce in Ethiopia’s two-year civil war. Here’s what to know
Two years on, the fighting has left thousands dead, displaced more than 2 million people and given rise to a wave of atrocities, including massacres, sexual violence and the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
(CNN, 2022-11-02)
How Eritrea drove Ethiopia’s war in Tigray
All along the B30 highway – deep inside Tigray – Eritreans troops are under siege, fighting for their lives. The road links the western city of Shire, the sacred site of Axum and the historic town of Adwa, scene of the famous Ethiopian victory over the Italians in 1896. Today it has become the Highway from Hell, with beleaguered Eritrean and Ethiopian forces under constant attack from Tigrayan ambushes.
(Martin Plaut, 2022-11-02)
The Forgotten War: Why Two Sisters Created An Organization To Push For Change
(Forbes, 2022-10-26)
6 million people in Tigray are facing a healthcare crisis big enough to hasten a genocide
(QZ, 2022-10-25)
Pope appeals for end to fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
(Crux, 2022-10-24)
The biggest war today is not in Ukraine but Tigray, where WWI tactics are causing ‘unbelievable carnage’
(iNews, 2022-10-24)
The world’s worst war you aren’t watching is in Ethiopia Project description by Studio Other Spaces "I’ve had a long-lasting relationship with Ethiopia. I was a visiting professor at the Ale School of Fine Art and Design at Addis Ababa University for many years, and I gave several workshops and initiated many exchange programs between Addis Ababa and Berlin. A collaborative project was a natural next step. The memorial park design builds on seve Meles Zenawi always said he didn’t intend to die in office. Speaking to TIME as long ago as 2007, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was talking about moving on: “I have been around for quite a long time,” he said. “Time to start thinking about doing new things.” In the event, Meles did not do anything else but stayed through another election in 2010 – rigged, said the U.S., E.U and human rights groups – in which his Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and its allies won 545 of the 547 seats in parliament and 1,903 of the 1,904 on nine regional councils. The result was not surprising but was at least less bloody than the previous poll in 2005 when Ethiopian security services shot dead 200 protesters – more like 1,000, said the opposition – who were demonstrating against the ERPDF’s victory in the streets of the capital Addis Ababa. Meles’s version of events was that the opposition, having lost a free and fair vote, were trying to win power by other means. “We felt we had to clamp down,” he said. “In the process, many people died. Many of our friends feel we overreacted. We feel we did not.” Still, though rights groups, opposition politicos and journalists he persecuted are understandably loathe to admit it, there was more to Meles Zenawi than a stereotypical African strongman. In the 1980s, Ethiopia was synonymous with famine and Live Aid, and a global symbol of African hopelessness. Under Meles, hunger still returned to Ethiopia every year (though that seemed partly a product of foreign provision of free emergency food aid, which saves lives in the short term but ruins commercial farmers in the longer term). But Meles’s regime ensured less and less of Ethiopia’s 85 million population was affected. Child malnutrition has fallen by more than a third since 2000. One of the most effective public health programs in the developing world also saw rates of malaria and child mortality halve between 2005-2011. Meles scored well too on that other answer .
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Studio Other Spaces – led by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann – has conceptualised an expansive, multifaceted landscape that connects 7 pavilions and 5 buildings along a meandering 2.4 km walking path. Constructed by combining local methods, crafts, and materials with modern technology, Meles Zenawi Memorial Park invites visitors to co-produce its purpose and meaning, while resonating with the nation’s past and future.
Ten years ago, this project was initiated by the Meles Zenawi Foundation to commemorate the life of Meles Zenawi, who was the country's president and then prime minister from 1991 until his death in 2012. By designing a socially horizontal space, SOS has expanded the meaning of the word ‘memorial’ beyond the memory of a single leader to include the many memories of the countless people, whether from the cities or countryside, whether old or young, rich or poor, who make up the country of Ethiopia and who themselves have lived its history.
Located on the northern edge of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Meles Zenawi Memorial Park is intended to be widely accessible to the community. The overall design strives to facilitate exchange through recreation and education, and to hold space for contemplation and debate of the country’s histories, as well as paths forward. The hope is that the memorial park can accommodate the many, often complex feelings and reflections around Meles Zenawi’s legacy – from celebration and optimism to grief and reckoning.
The Meles Zenawi Memorial Park by Studio Other Spaces. Photograph by Vogt Landscape.