42: The Answer to Almost Everything - Has Globalisation Failed? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English With wars, financial crises, and energy crises, global trade seems to be suffering. But is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?

Has globalisation failed?

A new ARTE episode featuring GDI's Pritish Behuria has been released asking 'is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?'

Watch here: www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

"This is catastrophic."

The irony: conservation involving fenced-off 'hard boundaries' can lead to shrinking space for wildlife.

@tekgw.bsky.social explored findings from Kenya and Tanzania at our February event on #rangelandmyths about Mobility.

#IYRP2026 #pastoralism #conservation

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

I don't know how I missed this incredible investigative reporting by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social and Ashenafi Endale, illicit mining in Tigray-->funding for another looming war, pollution, and, surprise surprise, foreign investment from Canada + China🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

“What happens when atrocities go unnoticed, unpunished, or even tacitly accepted? Impunity does not end violence; it perpetuates it…

[A]ctive war has flared up again in Tigray in 2026.

This has raised the prospect of a renewed full-scale siege. This is evidenced by recent drone attacks”

You can also listen to a conversation I had on the article here, open.spotify.com/show/06n4Uuy...
or here
www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...

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…

This is based on an earlier article about the production of "zone of invisibility" in Tigray. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.

How did Ethiopia get away with the mass murder of close to a million Tigrayans?

In my latest piece for @theconversation.com, I examine the tactics the Ethiopian regime and its allies used to conceal the genocide in Tigray, and evade accountability.

theconversation.com/how-to-get-a...

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.

The Tigray crisis remains largely invisible to the world.

"Factors such as race and the peripherality of the region made the Tigray conflict a blind spot in global geopolitics. But these explanations are not sufficient."

In @uk.theconversation.com by @tekgw.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qvJzux

The TESCREALists I wrote about (Goertzel), teaming up with pedophiles (Epstein), experimenting on five million Ethiopian children through "digital IDs" which they want for harvesting data to train "AI." My worlds colliding in the worst way.

This month, in our #RangelandMyths series, we examine the myth that 'Mobility drives conflict and insecurity'.

Read the think piece by Linda Pappagallo: repairproject.org/Blog/myth-mo...

Join our online discussion on 26 February with @tekgw.bsky.social:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

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…

Important paper on the Tigray War. Key points: Death toll likely to be larger than 800k and Ethiopia obscured the crisis, creating 'zone of invisibility' to reduce calls for international action : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

addisstandard.com/feature-mass...

Shifting Contours of Conflict: War and Cross-Border Migration in the Horn of Africa - Global Development Institute Blog by Tekle Weldemichel (Lecturer in Environment and Development at GDI) and Hussein M. Sulieman (Research Fellow at GDI)  The Horn of Africa (HoA) has, in recent years, been going through one of the mos...

The Horn of Africa has been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern history.

@tekgw.bsky.social and Hussein Sulieman write about the devastating wars in Ethiopia and Sudan, and how these have reshaped regional dynamics.

🔗 bit.ly/4oxE5OQ

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Flyer for event, with image of book cover, event time & address and blurb.

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...

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...

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...

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/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.

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.

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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.

🇪🇹 #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...

Cover of this weekend's The Continent newspaper "Genocide resumes in Darfur as Sudan tears apart"

Screenshot of article by Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum "Sudan's split in two is now complete." Satellite imagery depicting destruction and possible dead included

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.

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.

Starvation was used as a weapon in Tigray, yet the true scale of the famine remains overlooked and underreported. 🍂

theconversation.com/starvation-a...

#Politics

We also note that
“Famine in #Tigray was a deliberate effort to weaken and humiliate a population. The implications go beyond Ethiopia. They expose how global systems remain unfit for documenting or responding to politically induced famine.”

#TigrayGenocide

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.

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...

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.

"The UN system has collapsed, and securing a seat within this deteriorating institution (a seeming preoccupation by some of the leaders) does little to protect Africa from the injustices of old and new colonial dynamics being shaped around the continent."

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...

"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...

"This afterlife manifests not through conquest, at least not yet, but through opaque investment agreements, peace accords, and diplomatic gestures. If left unchallenged, it threatens to consign Africa to another century of external domination."