Ethiopia in Crisis: The Tigray Conflict & Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Explained

Genocide? Water wars? Terrorism? 2020 has been a stressful year for Ethiopia. The pandemic, locusts, political upheaval, and developing standoff with Egypt are situations that hinder long-term peace in the region.

How did these conflicts begin? Where are they going? What's going to happen? This geopolitics video explains the Tigray conflict that some are calling ethnic cleansing and genocide. Others see Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as enforcing tighter governance.

This is a short primer to some of the most relevant issues of international law and relations around Ethiopia.

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