UN report: Berhanu Nega went to Asmara via Egypt
Eritrea continued to violating the UN Security Council's resolution by hosting Ethiopian rebel groups, Patriotic Ginbot 7 and TPDM, according…
Friday, November 6, 2015 @ 11:43 pm
Tigrai People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) a.k.a. Demhit
Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM – also known by its Tigrigna acronym “Demhit”) was founded in 2001 when President Isaias Afeworki’s regime started arming Ethiopian rebels.
TPDM is described “the most important Ethiopian opposition group inside Eritrea” with “a dual function as an Ethiopian armed opposition group and a protector of the Afeworki regime.”
The group was said to have formed a union with three other Eritrea based rebels in Sept. 2015. Days later, however, its leader Mola Asgedom and about 700 fighters fled to Ethiopia.
Read more in the posts below.
Ethiopia: Official statement on TPDM fighters return from Eritrea
Press Statement by the Joint Anti-terrorism Task-force of the National Intelligence and Security Service and the Federal Police (Sept. 13, 2015) Following the…
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 @ 12:58 pm
Ethiopian rebels flee Eritrea en-masse
(Updated on the third paragraph with the report of their arrival in Ethiopia. Updated again indicating they arrived with their…
Sunday, September 13, 2015 @ 4:45 am
Gov’t confirms clash with insurgents near Ethio-Eritrea border
About thirty armed men were killed and captured after a skirmish near Ethiopian-Eritrean border, according to a statement from the…
Saturday, July 11, 2015 @ 5:33 am
Eritrea: Conversation with the resistance mov’t inside Asmara
(Leonard Vincent) On Saturday morning, two exiled Eritrean journalists in exile and two European journalists - British Martin Plaut and…
Sunday, October 26, 2014 @ 8:59 pm
UN report: Eritrea arms, trains ‘Ginbot 7’ rebel group
Eritrea continued to support at least three Ethiopian rebel groups including Ginbot 7, a United Nations' report indicated last week.…
Monday, October 20, 2014 @ 5:46 am
UN report: Eritrea-backed rebel TPDM has tens of thousands fighters
United Nations' report indicated that Eritrea continued propping up Tigrai People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) in violation of Security Council resolution…
Monday, October 20, 2014 @ 5:45 am
Eritrea: The unraveling of Isaias authored identity
(Merkeb Negash) Exactly a year ago, in an article titled “The Politics of Writing an Eritrean Identity”, I argued against…
Monday, December 16, 2013 @ 1:20 am
Text of UN report on Eritrea’s plot to bomb AU summit
Highlight: “Te’ame opened his laptop and showed me a video about how Iraqi insurgents have used explosives to powerful effect.…
Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 10:50 am