The Queen of Sheba In his recent Twitter post, the Former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mr. Herman J. Cohen, patently blurted: PM Abiy Ahmed’s Nobel Peace Prize should be revoked. Unprecedented, but definitely called for in this case, having rejected political solutions in Tigray, and in view of the atrocities and […]
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Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, the electoral board said on Friday, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seeks to quell political and ethnic violence in several regions. Voter registration for the June vote would take place from March 1 to 30, the electoral board said. Abiy’s Prosperity Party, a pan-Ethiopian movement he
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BY MAHLET FASIL @MAHLETFASIL Addis Abeba, December 26/2020 – Five defendants in the file under Eskinder Nega, Founder of the opposition party Balederas for Genuine Democracy, have entered a plea of not guilty after prosecutors submitted revised charges at the Federal High Court, Lideta Branch, First Constitutional and Anti-Terrorism Bench. The federal judges however proceeded with ruling to commence witness
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross told Reuters on Friday. “Yesterday we buried 207 people who are the victims and 15 more from the attackers,” said the volunteer, Melese Mesfin. The attack
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In the northern highlands of Ethiopia stand 11 churches that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church says were built by angels. This Christmas season brings fresh hope with vaccines rolling out and a new year dawning. It is a time of faith, and reminded us of Lalibela, a monument to rare devotion. 800 years ago, an Ethiopian king
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December 23, 2020 (GADAREF) – The Sudanese army came under a new attack from Ethiopian army and Amhara militias near the border strip, military sources told the Sudan Tribune on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the joint political committee between the two countries wrapped up meetings in Khartoum without tangible results on the border issue. “A Sudanese army
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Witnesses report knife and gun attacks and children shot by armed men after PM warning over continuing ethnic conflicts, More than 100 people have been killed in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, in the latest massacre along ethnic lines in the country. Witnesses and officials said that at least 102 people were killed in the
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Geneva (22 December 2020) – Seven weeks after the conflict began in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the continuing lack of overall humanitarian access, coupled with an ongoing communications blackout in many areas, raises increasing concerns about the situation of civilians, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned on Tuesday. “While we welcome
