#ወፍሪ_ሰላም - #Campaign4Peace will bring together the People of #Tigray , #Eritea & All Friends of Peace & the People.

The 3-Days Event is set to happen from May 17 - 19, in #Toronto , #Canada .

A cultural Show will end the three days Conference & Panel Discussions.

I am glad to have coordinated today’s inaugural meeting the for soon-to-be All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tigray.

A huge thank you to the parliamentarians who were in attendance and for the continued support.

Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows
Sudan accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globally theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Flooding in Kenyan capital city Nairobi has 'escalated to extreme levels' and local authorities are 'clearly overwhelmed', a senator has warned. bbc.in/3QdHtjG

Botswana declined request to host UK migrants. Minister says 'The British government doesn’t want these people in their country so they want to bury them in a faraway country.' bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl… via BBC News (UK)

Starting shortly

Every facet of life in Tigray impacted by the war, in which as many as 600,000 people may have been killed. It ended with an African Union-brokered peace agreement in November 2022, but the bill for reconstruction has been calculated at $20 billion. thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…

At least 21 migrants dead after boat capsizes off coast of Djibouti theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The World Bank has halted its funding of a $150m tourism project in Tanzania following allegations of rape, evictions and killings.
The bank began investigating last year after it was accused of complicity in the abuses. bbc.co.uk/news/world-688…

#Ethiopia is deploying more troops along Humera-Omhajar road on its border with #Eritrea .

In case of action to dismantle Amhara provisional govt in western zone, Amhara militias could flee 2 Eritrea or get military support from Eritrea. The fed govt is taking preventive measures

Tigray: disturbing report with a video clip and English translation from the occupied Irob district of Tigray. The Eritrean regime is imposing a false identity on the indigenous #Irob . Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP Follow link:

South Africa election: Jacob Zuma and MK lead 3-0 in court battles bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Good news: suggests more Sudanese gold is going through official export channels and less syphoned off by the RSF and sent to Russia via Chad
dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/ar…

Catholic Irob minority has lost its home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region martinplaut.com/2024/04/23/cat…

In 2022 Andrew Mitchell, who now claims opposition to the Rwanda asylum scheme in the House of Lords is fuelled by 'borderline racism', campaigned energetically against it, pointing out that it would be cheaper to put asylum seekers up in the Ritz.

Wednesday, 24 April
Diaspora Dilemma: Eritrean-Australian Communities & Foreign Interference Threats
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Which country has the world’s largest population of internal refugees? The highest number of people facing famine? The answer is not, as many might assume, Gaza or Ukraine. It is Sudan.
economist.com/middle-east-an…

Fighting over disputed land along borders of Ethiopia's Tigray and Amhara regions has displaced close to 29,000 people, the United Nations says bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Irob minority in Tigray facing extinction.Explanatory note(in brackets)from Prof Jan Nyssen of Ghent Uni.Article published yesterday in Avvenire-Italian daily newspaper Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP Edward Pentin Jo Siedlecka Martin Plaut Coalition for Genocide Response Raymond Arroyo url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/oY7OCJy3mcqn…

As Liliane Landor leaves BBC World Service she is right to be concerned for its future if further cuts are made.A new Government should commit to funding UK’s most important smart power tool from taxation. Debate in House of Lords 2022 davidalton.net/2022/12/01/hou… & davidalton.net/2022/10/04/art…