The April 2023 edition of the CTC Sentinel includes an article titled "The Islamic State Somalia Propaganda Coalition's Regional Language Push" by Lucas Webber and Daniele Garofalo.
The branch of the Islamic State in Somalia is trying to expand its reach by providing propaganda in Somali, Oromo, Amharic, and Swahili languages.
Ethiopia Insight published on 17 November 2022 a commentary titled "Amhara Nationalist Claims over Western Tigray Are a Smokescreen for Ethnic Cleansing" by Jan Nyssen, University of Ghent.
The author argues that as many as 723,000 Tigrayans have been forced from Western Tigray by Amhara militia, the Ethiopian National Defense Force, and Eritrean forces. Parts of Western Tigray have been disputed for centuries by Tigrayans and Amhara. The author sheds some historical light on the dispute.
The BBC posted on 23 November 2021 an account titled "Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict: What Are Facebook and Twitter Doing about Hate Speech?" by Peter Mwai.
Both pro and anti-government users of Facebook and Twitter have posted hateful and inflammatory content in Amharic, Afan Oromo, Somali, and Tigrinya. Social media platforms are caught in the middle as they try to manage these postings.
Ethiopia Insight published on 17 December 2020 a commentary titled "Conflict in Tigray Is about TPLF, Not Ethnic Federalism" by Teshome M. Borago, accountant and political analyst.
The author argues that if there is an ideological basis to the conflict in Tigray, it is not the TPLF's commitment to ethnic federalism, but rather the TPLF's opposition to a new multiparty and pluralist Ethiopia where its political power monopoly will be threatened.
