#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep.14: Tigray on the Brink: Survival, Famine Risks, and the Shadow of Renewed War in Ethiopia.
Tigray is facing fragile recovery, deepening humanitarian strain, and growing fears of renewed war.
Duke Burbridge shares what he witnessed on the ground — from survival and displacement to aid challenges and famine risks.
Premiers at: 7:30 PM tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal |Ep. 12 – Ethiopia’s Constitutional Foundation and the Crisis of Western Tigray. Part II
Five years after the war in Tigray began, the constitutional crisis it exposed remains unresolved.
In Part II, Tsedale Lemma continues her conversation with Daniel Berhane, examining whether Ethiopia is still governed by its Constitution — or whether force has replaced law in determining territory.
If territorial disputes are settled outside constitutional order, what does that mean for Ethiopia’s federal future?
Part II premiers at: 7:30 PM tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep.17: From Newsroom to Frontline: Mistresillasie on Power, War & Resistance
#TsedaleLemma speaks with #MistresillasieTamrat.
From her striking statement, “politics took journalism away from me,” to her defense of possible participating in upcoming elections, Mistresillasie speaks with clarity.
Premiers at: 7:30 PM EAT tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep. 10: PM Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Intellectuals, and Power
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s January lecture at Addis Abeba University framed itself as a reflection on intellectuals, leadership, and national prosperity, defining who counts as an intellectual and assessing the role of ideas and academic institutions in Ethiopia’s history.
But who defines intellectuals? Why does it matter?
In this episode of The Standard Signal, Tsedale Lemma speaks with historian and public intellectual Ezekiel Gebissa to critically examine the lecture, probing what happens when power speaks in the language of ideas, and how this shapes intellectual autonomy and epistemic freedom.
Premiers at: 7:30 PM tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep. 09: Red Sea Rubicon: Ethiopia at the Crossroads of the tectonic shift in Horn’s Geopolitics
Ethiopia calls Red Sea access “existential.” But is this strategy, or a dangerous doctrine?
Israel recognizes Somaliland. UAE-Saudi rivalry intensifies. Egypt pressures Addis Abeba. The African Union struggles.
Tsedale Lemma & Ayana Feyissa break down Ethiopia’s choices in a zero-sum Horn of Africa.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal |Ep. 12 - Western Tigray and the Unraveling of Ethiopia’s Constitution. Part I
Five years after the war in Tigray began, and three years after Pretoria, Western Tigray remains the clearest sign that Ethiopia’s war has not truly ended, it has merely changed form.
If peace doesn’t restore rights, is it really peace? If people cannot return safely and with dignity, what does return even mean? Is Ethiopia still governed by its Constitution?
#TsedaleLemma speaks with #DanielBerhane.
Part I premiers at: 7:30 PM tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep. 13 - The UK’s “New Africa Approach”: Press Freedom, Human Rights, Investment, Migration, and Power Politics in Ethiopia
What’s actually new about the UK’s “New Africa Approach”?
#TsedaleLemma speaks with #LukeBullock
Premiers at: 7:30 PM EAT tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep. 11: Meles Zenawi’s Nightmare Revisited: GERD, Gulf Money, and the Unmaking of Sovereignty
Fifteen years ago, Ethiopia’s late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi warned that his nightmare would be an “Egyptian agenda financed by Gulf money.”
Has Meles Zenawi’s nightmare already arrived?
#TsedaleLemma speaks with #JawarMohammed.
Premiers at: 7:30 PM tonight.
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#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep.15: Ethiopia Under Pressure: Fuel Crisis, Global & Regional Instability, a Fragile Election | Jawar Mohammed
#TsedaleLemma speaks with #JawarMohammed about the growing challenges facing Ethiopia, from global and regional tensions to domestic instability, corruption and Ethiopia’s fragile election.
Premiers at: 7:30 PM EAT tonight.
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