US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two-nation Africa tour has resulted in the release of two hostages in Niger and Mali, as well as positive calls for transitional justice from Ethiopia's recently ended two-year civil war in Tigray. | CdeLENIN
Meanwhile, Ethiopia is set to honour post-conflict justice through acknowledgement, accountability and reconciliation.
From the engagements in Ethiopia, he noted that since the November 2022 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement ,"the fighting has stopped, human rights abuses in northern Ethiopia are significantly down, Eritrean forces are leaving, and the Ethiopian government is taking the first step towards transitional justice".
Blinken said"after careful review of the law and the facts", the Ethiopian National Defence Forces, Eritrean Defence Forces, Tigray People's Liberation Front forces and Amhara forces committed war crimes during the conflict in northern Ethiopia. Woodke was taken from his residence in Abalak, Niger, on 14 October 2016 by men in a small pick-up truck who killed his two guards and forced him into the vehicle at gunpoint. They drove towards neighbouring Mali and since then, Woodke was held hostage by jihadists operating in West Africa. The US has been secretly negotiating for his release since his kidnapping.In a statement, Blinken said he would continue to work tirelessly to get US citizens who were being detained abroad safely back home.
Dubois was kidnapped in the Malian region of Gao while seeking an interview with the local leader of the Al-Qaeda affiliated group Jama'a Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin on 8 April 2021.While his release was a welcome move, the Committee to Protect Journalists urged jihadists to spare journalists while they were in the line of duty.
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