#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.
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This is a haunting question that cuts to the heart of Ethiopia’s ongoing cycle of political violence.
“What are we giving birth to through all this killing?”
In this powerful reflection from The Standard Signal EP.16, the conversation confronts the brutal reality of unresolved killings, missing justice, and the human cost of political conflict—from Negele Borena to Harar to Ambo.
Two years after the assassination of Bate Urgessa, the questions of accountability and justice remain painfully unanswered.
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“Politics took journalism away from me.”
A powerful reflection on media freedom and political pressure.
Watch the full episode of The Standard Signal on YouTube
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCF8w7rEYhQ&t=1430s
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#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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#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.
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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.
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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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#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.
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The Standard Signal Ep 16| Two Years Without Justice: Remembering the Brutal Assassination of Bate Urgessa
On April 9, 2024, Bate Urgessa was brutally assassinated by government forces.
This special episode revisits the timeline, and what it reveals about justice and political space in Ethiopia today.
#TsedaleLemma in conversation with #EzekielGebissa
Premiers tonight at 7:30 PM EAT
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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
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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.
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#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.
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