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March 2022

The Best Strategy to Defeat HR-6600 is to Get Ahead of It

The Best Strategy to Defeat HR-6600 is to Get Ahead of It

Yonas Biru, PhD March 30, 2022 A Prologue to Post HR-6600 HR-6600 is a US bill that the US Congress is pushing through the Congressional legislative process to sanction Ethiopia in a bid to end the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray tribal land. Words cannot fully explain the humanitarian crisis. I think pictures may help.

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New Front in Ethiopian War Displaces Thousands, Hits Hopes of Peace Talks

New Front in Ethiopian War Displaces Thousands, Hits Hopes of Peace Talks

Internally displaced people who fled their homes in Berhale due to the fighting between the Afar Special Forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) stand near a makeshift compound, in Afdera town, Ethiopia, February 23, 2022. Malnutrition is rising in the region, said the U.N. World Food Programme, and Afdera’s camps are short of

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SFRC APPROVES ETHIOPIA PEACE AND STABILIZATION ACT OF 2022 WITH OVERWHELMING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT

SFRC APPROVES ETHIOPIA PEACE AND STABILIZATION ACT OF 2022 WITH OVERWHELMING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT

MARCH 29, 2022 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-Del.) in releasing the below statements following the Committee’s bipartisan approval of S. 3199, the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act of 2022, at this morning’s business

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Open Letter to Ethiopian Parliamentarians  (Yonas Biru)

Open Letter to Ethiopian Parliamentarians (Yonas Biru)

የጠቅላይ ሚኒስቴሩ እንደ ስላሴዎች አንድም ሶስተም እየሆኑ የመምጣት አደጋዎች Yonas Biru, PhD Dear Honorable Parliamentarians: I ask your indulgence and time to read this open letter, which serves as a follow up to my last week’s piece titled “A Candid Open Letter to PM Abiy: Ethiopia Needs a Statesman Not a Party Leader.” Of recent,

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Ethiopia releases former Tigray government officials – lawyer

Ethiopia releases former Tigray government officials – lawyer

ADDIS ABABA, March 29 (Reuters) – Ethiopia has released several former government officials from prison, a lawyer working with them said. The group of ethnic Tigrayans included former members of the government-appointed administration and a member of the ruling party. The state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on March 18 that at least eight officials

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A team from Addis Ababa University advances to Regional Finals of Global Hult Prize Challenge

A team from Addis Ababa University advances to Regional Finals of Global Hult Prize Challenge

. The global finalist will be rewarded a $1 million prize, known as the Nobel Prize for students, for implementing their idea. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 29, 2022 – The 2022 edition of the Hult Prize Addis Ababa university on campus sponsored by Kazana Group and 251 Communications & Marketing PLC concludes with a team of

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United States Policy of “My Way or the Highway” Degrades Peace and Stability in the Horn of Africa

Aklog Birara (Dr) I must admit that the trust and confidence most Ethiopians within and outside Ethiopia have in the Ethiopian social, economic, and political system, the country’s governance, economic and fiscal management, and its core national institutions are, some say, hopelessly degraded. But “Throwing the baby with the bath towel” is hardly the remedy.

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Sub-Saharan Africa: Millions denied vaccines, deepening inequality and human suffering from conflicts sum up 2021

Sub-Saharan Africa: Millions denied vaccines, deepening inequality and human suffering from conflicts sum up 2021

INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL, TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2022 AT 01:01 CAT  Contact press@amnesty.org for embargoed materials and to arrange interviews   Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2021 Global leaders peddling false promises of a fair recovery from Covid-19 to address deep-seated inequalities, with only 8% of Africa’s 1.2 billion people fully vaccinated by end of 2021 Utter

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