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Why is Egypt not able to stop the building of a dam in Ethiopia?
Based on this article, it would seem that Egypt implicitly recognizes Ethiopia has a legitimate right to build a dam, and that both Egypt and Ethiopia want an international agreement, including Sudan, ...
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Is it permissible under international law to militarily attack a country/region if it's conducting a total blockade, including of foodstuff?
International law generally prefers not to get involved in civil wars, which this is. Regardless, international law is customary rather than statutory, because there is no single entity with general ...
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Can the ICC try Ethiopia or any country involved in the Tigray war for war crimes?
The legal justification presented for the ICC's jurisdiction over Putin's actions in Ukraine is that Ukraine, despite not being a signatory, has granted the ICC in this matter:
Ukraine is not a State ...
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Why would the US have started the civil war in Ethiopia?
One can speculate about reasons for the U.S. to incite civil war in Ethiopia or Eritrea until the cows come home(and even if there were reasons to do so that is very weak evidence that it actually did ...
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Why did the Afar forces (allegedly) attack the Somali town of Garbaiisa?
It appears that, in the same way some Eastern European countries are comprised of disparate ethnic groups, there's multiple ethnic groups in the contested area of Somalia. One of the points of ...
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Who is helping the Tigray TDF?
Actually, the Ethiopian army drove the TPLF (Tigrayan People's Liberation Army) out of Mekelle into the mountains (and not the TDF). This came later when they regrouped under a new name and, I would ...
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Who is helping the Tigray TDF?
So far there hasn't been much information regarding foreign help for TDF and their allies. Maybe the reason they have held out much longer than so many others is because of Morale ? However, there are ...
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Controversial Tigray regional election
Essentially, the TPLF (the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front) was the main controlling power within the EPRDF (Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front), the ruling coalition before the ...
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Controversial Tigray regional election
This question is a bit broad, but news media reported that had it not been for Covid-19, local and general elections were supposed to be held on Aug 29:
Ethiopia had been due to hold national and ...
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