Marishet Mohammed Hamza

Marishet Mohammed Hamza is a PhD Candidate in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. His project focuses on the challenges to the applicability of international law obligations in the context of contemporary armed conflicts involving multiple and fragmented non-state armed groups. Marishet is an alumnus of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He previously worked as a lecturer at the School of Law of Jigjiga Universities and Wolaita Sodo University in Ethiopia.

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front: A Provincial Ruling Political Party turned into a Rebel Government

By Marishet Mohammed Hamza / October 14, 2022

The ongoing non-international armed conflict (NIAC) in the northern part of Ethiopia, mainly in the Tigray region, pitted the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) and allied forces (including troops from neighbouring Eritrea) against the Tigray Liberation Front (TPLF). The TPLF has been the governing political party in the Tigray region since 1991. It was also the dominant …

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