Mekdelawit Messay Deribe The introduction of the 1959 agreement between the United Arab Republic and Sudan for the full utilization of the Nile waters notes that the earlier 1929 agreement “….provided only for the partial use of the Nile waters and did not extend to include a complete control of the river waters….” (United Arab Republic and […]
Addis Ababa February 17/ 2022 (ENA) Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched a project to conduct national inquiry into the rights of persons deprived of liberty today. The commission held the workshop with relevant stakeholders to provide information and establish a collaborative approach in the process on how to identify, access and analyze patterns
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By Ian Campbell Februar 22, 2022 Reviewed By Nicolas van de Walle March/April 2022 This stunning book explores the Catholic Church’s support for and encouragement of Mussolini’s campaign against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church during Italy’s invasion and occupation of Ethiopia from 1935 to 1943. Italian forces targeted the Orthodox Church; they ransacked and destroyed hundreds of
Dr Yonas Biru Ethiopia is mentioned in numerous verses of the Bible and the Quran. Ethiopian Christians insist their homeland is the Mecca of Christianity where the Arc of the Covenant is housed. Their Muslim brethren believe the first Islamic call for prayer was made by a man who was originally from Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). In Greek
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Asfaw Regasa The humanitarian, political, and economic crisis in our country is worsening by the day. Our people in various parts of the country, including in the Northern, Western, Eastern, and Southern regions are suffering every single day from war, genocide, and other conflicts in historic proportions. Massacres of innocent civilians, including children, women, elderlies,
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Embargoed for release until: 00:01 GMT (03:01 EAT) on 16 February 2022 Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and girls – some as young as 14 – and looted private and public property in two areas of northern Ethiopia’s
Al Mariam’s Commentaries / February 14, 2022 One of the two objectives in Part II of my commentary here is to explain the legal basis for the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission, its organization and intended objectives. The second aim is to expound on the themes I introduced in Part I of this commentary where I discussed my
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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament on Tuesday voted for an early end to a six-month state of emergency, effective immediately, adding to signs that a bloody conflict between the government and rebellious Tigrayan forces could be easing. The war in Africa’s second-largest nation has largely ground to a stalemate, and diplomats
Ethiopia is a culturally diverse country, a nation of ethnolinguistic minorities, with a solid national identity. And yet, its political class is bafflingly polarized, thereby eroding its unity. This polarization is institutionalized in the ethnocratic constitution, discriminatory appointments to public offices, and political identity linked to administrative boundaries. This three-decades-old system has inevitably eroded national