#Premiering_now: The Standard Signal | Ep. 13 - The UK’s “New Africa Approach”: Press Freedom, Human Rights, Investment, Migration, and Power Politics in Ethiopia
In this episode of The Standard Signal, Tsedale Lemma speaks with Luke Bullock, the United Kingdom’s Deputy Ambassador to Ethiopia, on what London describes as its “New Africa Approach.” The conversation unpacks UK-backed investment and job creation, humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, migration pressures, press freedom, human rights and the shrinking of civic space in Ethiopia, rising tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, fragile Tigray–federal relations, Ethiopia’s push for sovereign access to the Red Sea, and Somaliland’s recognition by Israel.
Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/4b1tL5G-h2g
#Premiering_now: The Standard Signal |Ep. 12 – Ethiopia’s Constitutional Foundation and the Crisis of Western Tigray. Part II
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.
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaqncChP2Gc
#Premiering_now: 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. In this episode of The Standard Signal, host Tsedale Lemma speaks with political analyst and War on Tigray author Daniel Berhane about how violence became an entrenched reality, why ethnic cleansing has persisted despite the Pretoria Agreement, and how mass displacement is being used as political leverage.
Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/FPIdrwVpZf4?si=VE4ZAAZA09UgGfpk
#Premiering_now: The Standard Signal | Ep. 11: Meles Zenawi’s Nightmare Revisited: GERD, Gulf Money, and the Unmaking of Sovereignty
In this episode of The Standard Signal, Tsedale Lemma is joined by Jawar Mohammed to examine how GERD, the UAE–Ethiopia strategic alliance, and the intensifying Saudi–UAE rivalry are exposing Ethiopian state’s fragility.
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPFKPTZvlaI
#Premiering_now: The Standard Signal | Ep. 10: PM Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Intellectuals, and Power
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 langubage of ideas, and how this shapes intellectual autonomy and epistemic freedom.
Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/IW7z0tOd12Y
#Premiering_now: The Standard Signal | Ep. 09: Red Sea Rubicon: Ethiopia at the Crossroads of the tectonic shift in Horn’s Geopolitics
In this episode, Tsedale Lemma and political analyst Ayana Feyissa unpack Ethiopia’s challenges: historical lessons, regional rivalries, and the strategic ambiguity that may be turning vulnerability into risk.
The Horn is changing. Ethiopia’s choices today will shape its future.
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4rMEbnhrg
#Premiering_now: From Newsroom to Frontline: Mistresillasie on Power, War & Resistance
#TsedaleLemma speaks with #MistresillasieTamrat.
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCF8w7rEYhQ
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#PoliticalVoices#WomenInPolitics
#Premiering_now: Two Years Without Justice: Remembering the BrutalAssassination of Bate Urgessa
April 9, 2024, a night that ended in a brutal execution a husband, a father of five, an intellectual and a peaceful politician.
Two years later, the questions remain.
Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/gAXvr9JN3Y8?si=q7C8otTOvcTw_fZ5
In this commemorative episode of The Standard Signal, host Tsedale Lemma discusses with Prof. Ezekiel Gebissa to revisit the life, final hours, and aftermath of Bate Urgessa’s brutal assassination by government forces, and examine what has (and hasn’t) changed since.
#BateUrgessa#Ethiopia#JusticeDelayed#HumanRights#Oromo#OLF#PoliticalViolence#Accountability#AfricaNews#HornOfAfrica#TheStandardSignal#NeverForget
#Premiering_now: The Standard Signal | Ep.15: Ethiopia Under Pressure: Fuel Crisis, Global & Regional Instability, a Fragile Election | Jawar Mohammed
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HexAbPk8Dkw
Ethiopia is facing mounting pressures. In Episode 15 of The Standard Signal, host Tsedale Lamma brings Jawar Mohammed to discuss the deepening fuel shortage and corruption concerns in Ethiopia, the looming fertilizer crisis and its implications for food security, and the impact of Middle East war on Ethiopia’s economy and stability.
#AddisStandard#TheStandardSignal#Ethiopia#JawarMohammed#EthiopiaPolitics#Corruption#FuelCrisis#HornOfAfrica#Tigray#Amhara#Oromia#EthiopiaElection#AfricaPolitics#EthiopiaNews#AfricanPolitics#Geopolitics