Ethiopia Insight published on 12 February 2026 a commentary titled "Can a People's Pact Heal a War of Elites?" by Giday Amare, a public servant in the health care sector.
The author wants ordinary Tigrayans and Eritreans to come together at the people-to-people level in an effort to heal old wounds and overcome divisive actions of elites on both sides of the border.
Ethiopia Insight published on 18 March 2024 a commentary titled "TPLF Needs to Chart a New Path Ahead for Tigray" by Fiseha Haftetsion, coordinator of the Policy Studies and Research Center of the TPLF.
The author, head of the Justice Bureau of Tigray until April 2023, calls on the Tigray People's Liberation Front to undertake a number of changes and reforms. Ethiopia's federal and regional constitutions contain democratic principles that must be accepted. Tigray's development program must be based on liberalism. Regional authorities need to make their positions known at the federal level. Tigray should be based on meritocracy. It needs to make better use of its natural resources. It must allow free expression but prohibit crimes like hate speech and racism. Tigrayans must be honest about the flaws within the TPLF.
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.
Ethiopia Insight published on 3 August 2022 a commentary titled "Under Ethiopia's Federal System, Western Tigray Belongs in Tigray" by Abel Tesfaye.
This commentary makes the argument that Western Tigray is and should remain part of Tigray Region and not Amhara Region.
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.
