Ethiopian Community in Bay Area Agonize As Humanitarian Crisis, Civil War Largely Ignored

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A violent civil war has raged in Ethiopia for nearly two years, claiming 500,000 lives and displacing millions. Despite the current ceasefire, humanitarian aid is struggling to reach those who need it, leaving millions more at risk of starvation. Watching from afar, the Bay Area community of Ethiopians are trying to raise awareness about the crisis abroad. But the divisions between ethnic groups in Ethiopia are also finding their way closer to home. We’ll discuss the situation abroad and here in the Bay Area with members of local Ethiopian activist groups. Guests: Esayas Hailemariam, legal scholar; member and leader, Global Society Tigrayan Scholars Hanna Tamrat, co-organizer, San Francisco Bay Area Amhara Ethiopians Robael Gizachew, leader, Bay Area Oromo Youth Association Laetitia Bader, Horn of Africa director, Human Rights Watch Adey Hagos, founder, Cafe Romanat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.0	Last week, the news site, the Oakland side, published a story documenting the ways that the Civil War in Ethiopia has affected people from all
1:32.1	the ethnic groups of that country. Tens of thousands of Ethiopians live in the Bay Area,
1:37.2	and for many of them, the heartbreak and anger over what's happening in East Africa
1:41.0	has been compounded by the lack of interest or even basic knowledge from their fellow Bay residents.
1:46.0	Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians now face starvation and close to 5 million people have
1:50.4	been displaced.
1:51.4	Yet our government officials have not given the crisis close to the same attention as the
1:55.0	war in Ukraine.
1:56.0	So today we're going to talk with members of different Ethiopian communities here in the Bay Area
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