Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel
@tekgw.bsky.social
Lecturer in Environment and Development at @GlobalDevInst
(Pre) Asso. Prof. of Human Geography, @NTNU.
Tigrayan,
I write about #TigrayGenocide and more.
(Pre) Asso. Prof. of Human Geography, @NTNU.
Tigrayan,
I write about #TigrayGenocide and more.
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Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations
The war in Tigray, Ethiopia, which erupted in November 2020, has been marked by widespread atrocities, including organized massacres, the systematic u…
www.sciencedirect.com
New publication via @politicalgeography.bsky.social 📜
How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible?
In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible?
In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e
Italy probes Sarajevo ‘sniper safaris’: What were they, who was involved?
According to a lawsuit, participants would be flown from Italy to Bosnia where they would pay to shoot people.
aje.io
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
And when you thought you had seen every horror in the world, along comes this. During the Bosnia war, I often travelled down Sarajevo’s “sniper alley” but only heard bullets pinging off my armor-plated vehicle & suffered cracked windows. Unprotected locals were not so lucky. READ: aje.io/uuig6e
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A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
When Tigray became a ‘wild west’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim
A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere.
Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...
Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere.
Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...
Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...
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On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time).
Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'
Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'
Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time).
Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'
Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'
Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
Travesty lies in the fact that Abiy now appears to be using the TPLF faction’s alleged ties with Eritrea as a pretext to further isolate & besiege what remains of Tigray — despite his own open alliance with the Eri regime to turn Tigray into a wasteland
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
Tigray as a Death World: Frantz Fanon, colonialism, and the limits of liberation struggles
Ethiopia’s relationship with its constituent peripheries and Tigray in particular can without any doubt be described as colonial—a peculiar example of internal colonialism, in the sense that it is not...
tghat.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Travesty lies in the fact that Abiy now appears to be using the TPLF faction’s alleged ties with Eritrea as a pretext to further isolate & besiege what remains of Tigray — despite his own open alliance with the Eri regime to turn Tigray into a wasteland
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPRG4...
Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.
Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism
The emergence of Amhara nationalism as a central political trend in Ethiopia can be dated to 2016. It soon gained considerable audience within the Amhara region and beyond. This article analyses a ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPRG4...
Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.
Incredibly important piece of research! And glad to see it out finally. Mehdi’s work on Amhara nationalism is based on incredible access and data.
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Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
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🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre.
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre.
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
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Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege.
Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
November 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege.
Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
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Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
#Politics
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
#Politics
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
theconversation.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
#Politics
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
#Politics
In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
theconversation.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Yesterday was an inspiring day at @ki.se , where I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a keynote speech on the role of scholarship during the genocide in Tigray and to take part in engaging panel discussions on academic freedom and democracy.
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Yesterday was an inspiring day at @ki.se , where I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a keynote speech on the role of scholarship during the genocide in Tigray and to take part in engaging panel discussions on academic freedom and democracy.
"For all intents and purposes, the United Nations has lost much of its influence, as its involvement and legitimacy have been progressively undermined."
African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.”
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.”
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
Africa: Peace and development in the age of transactional geopolitics - Global Development Institute Blog
By Teklehaymanot Weldemichel and Smith Ouma The African Union has long promoted the slogan “African solutions to African problems”. Yet recent developments across the continent suggest that this procl...
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"For all intents and purposes, the United Nations has lost much of its influence, as its involvement and legitimacy have been progressively undermined."
African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.”
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
African leaders, however, seem not to “read the room.”
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
In a new blog, my colleague Smith Ouma and I highlight that a new wave of colonialism—less overt than in the past yet equally insidious—is unfolding, one that may lock Africa into another centuries-long asymmetrical relationship with new imperial forces.
In a new article on the GDI blog, @tekgw.bsky.social and @oumaoti.bsky.social discuss connections between Africa's struggles and wider global forces, underlining the urgent need for Pan-African solidarity in countering the threat of new colonial dynamics: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In a new blog, my colleague Smith Ouma and I highlight that a new wave of colonialism—less overt than in the past yet equally insidious—is unfolding, one that may lock Africa into another centuries-long asymmetrical relationship with new imperial forces.
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In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act.
Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
Peace is the Prize: Why this Year’s Nobel Award Should be the Last - World Peace Foundation
Author Alex de Waal proposes that Nobel committee does not award the prize until world leaders get serious about peace.
worldpeacefoundation.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act.
Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
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From 2020–2022 in #Tigray, war & blockades turned hunger into a weapon, creating a man-made #famine & #genocide. The dehumanization of Tigrayans & invisibility of their experiences were their own forms of violence. Naming & recording this is vital for #accountability.
Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8
Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8
Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation
Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.
shorturl.at
October 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From 2020–2022 in #Tigray, war & blockades turned hunger into a weapon, creating a man-made #famine & #genocide. The dehumanization of Tigrayans & invisibility of their experiences were their own forms of violence. Naming & recording this is vital for #accountability.
Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8
Read more: shorturl.at/2uqW8
In a blog, Birhan & I reflect,
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation
Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.
bit.ly
October 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In a blog, Birhan & I reflect,
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool—not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
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"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
Famine in Tigray: “we are dying by a silent war” - World Peace Foundation
Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.
bit.ly
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Silence now risks normalizing the use of hunger as a political tool-not only in Ethiopia but in conflicts settings across the world. By naming and recording what happened in Tigray, we contribute to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability."
Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
Blog: bit.ly/48SMgkA
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In a new article for @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social, GDI's Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the silenced story of urban hunger that has accompanied Tigray's war, famine and genocide.
Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...
Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In a new article for @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social, GDI's Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the silenced story of urban hunger that has accompanied Tigray's war, famine and genocide.
Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...
Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...
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THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
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The economist just cited my Master's Thesis (!) on developmental authoritarianism in this piece: www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms
In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice
www.economist.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The economist just cited my Master's Thesis (!) on developmental authoritarianism in this piece: www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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In this post @sndeall.bsky.social joins the dots between #MineAction #FoodSecurity and #ClimateChange - it's vital that we continue to reassess the risks posed by explosive remnants of war in light of new understanding and environmental risks theconversation.com/how-unexplod...
How unexploded bombs cause environmental damage – and why climate change exacerbates the problem
One of the main ways conflict leads to environmental harm is by leaving behind unexploded weapons and ammunition.
theconversation.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
In this post @sndeall.bsky.social joins the dots between #MineAction #FoodSecurity and #ClimateChange - it's vital that we continue to reassess the risks posed by explosive remnants of war in light of new understanding and environmental risks theconversation.com/how-unexplod...
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Reposted by Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel
"The condition in Tigray today is such that the people are subjected to life-threatening circumstances that render them the “living dead,” trapped in a state of extreme precarity and exposed to various forms of premature death"
by @tekgw.bsky.social
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
by @tekgw.bsky.social
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
Tigray as a Death World: Frantz Fanon, colonialism, and the limits of liberation struggles
Ethiopia’s relationship with its constituent peripheries and Tigray in particular can without any doubt be described as colonial—a peculiar example of internal colonialism, in the sense that it is not...
tghat.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"The condition in Tigray today is such that the people are subjected to life-threatening circumstances that render them the “living dead,” trapped in a state of extreme precarity and exposed to various forms of premature death"
by @tekgw.bsky.social
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...
by @tekgw.bsky.social
tghat.com/2025/08/03/t...