Nairobi (AFP) Tedros — the highest-profile Tigrayan abroad — this week described conditions in the Ethiopian region as “hell” and said the government was preventing medicines and other life-saving aid from reaching locals. Addis Ababa said his comments threatened the World Health Organization’s integrity, and called for Tedros to be investigated for “misconduct and violation of […]
Ethiopia says it is outraged with the way the US magazine, Time, depicted the country’s leader when it had announced the list of influential people of the year. Time magazine has included Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Ethiopian-born US citizen and computer scientist Timnit Gebru in the latest list of 100 most influential people of
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MAY 23, 2022 6:06 AM EDT In 2019, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to end his country’s decades-long conflict with neighboring Eritrea. Abiy’s peace treaty with Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki inspired hopes for a transformed region, but also planted the seeds for an Ethiopian civil war.
Jessica Rendall May 24, 2022 Monkeypox isn’t new, but a growing number of cases in countries that don’t normally report the disease is cause for caution (not panic), officials say. Four new cases of the monkeypox in the US are under investigation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday at a media briefing.
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By Mahlet Fasil About a dozen journalists and media personalities were arrested in a span of three days, reports said. The arrests were made in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region, and Addis Abeba according to information acquired from the media houses and families of the detainees. The crackdown was first reported on
Defeat the S.3199 – Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act of 2022 and the H. R. 6600 “Ethiopia Stabilization, Peace, and Democracy Act There are two bills in the U.S. Senate and Congress plan that try to codify U.S. efforts to purportedly “support a peaceful, democratic Ethiopia and bring an end to the conflict in northern
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BY SOLOMON DIBABA The WHO Director General who is busy tarnishing the global image of his organization has turned into advocate politician for a terrorist organization which has created a reign of terror in Tigray. In total disregard to his international mandate as the Director General of a global organization entrusted with global health issues,
By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 & Mahlet Fasil @MahletFasil Reports of unrest, widespread detentions as well as casualties and deaths emerged in the past few days in connection with clashes between security forces and armed groups in some parts of the Amhara region. Tensions were running high after the regional government announced that law enforcement measures
May 22 – 2022 / GALABAT © Radio Dabanga The crossing between Sudan and Ethiopia between Galabat in El Gedaref and Metema in northern Ethiopia remains closed for the second day, after the killing of three Sudanese within days by Ethiopian gunmen (called shifta in the region). El Jamri El Taher told Radio Dabanga that the movement of
NAIROBI REUTERS Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region have arrested four employees of a U.S.-based online media outlet, while the whereabouts of two others was unclear, the outlet said on Sunday, in the latest round of arrests involving media. The arrests would add to those of five journalists in another Amhara media outlet on Thursday
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Pindula News David Nyekorach Matsanga, a Ugandan Lawyer, Investigative Journalist and Conflict Resolution expert has warned Zimbabwe against deporting Ethiopia’s former President Mengistu Haile Mariam saying that might spark civil unrest in the two countries. Mengistu was sentenced to death in 2008 in absentia after fleeing to Zimbabwe in 1991 following his ouster. He was
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