The New Arab Staff & Agencies 29 July, 2022 Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a military base on the Somalia-Ethiopia border on Friday, triggering fierce fighting that caused an unknown number of casualties, security officials said. It was the latest strike in the area by the Somalia-based jihadists in less than two weeks, raising concerns about the stability of […]
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by Michelle Gavin Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s four-country Africa swing attracted a great deal of attention in Western media outlets, which framed his trip as a diplomatic campaign intended to prove that the West’s efforts to isolate Russia have obvious limits. In Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Republic of Congo, Lavrov sought to deflect responsibility for
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Science/Mint In a couple of instances reported recently, suspected cases of monkeypox turned out to be chickenpox (AFP) As per the doctors, Monkeypox usually starts with fever, malaise, headache, sometimes sore throat and cough, and lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes) Monkeypox, a new kind of viral disease, has undoubtedly created tensions across the world. While the
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Is Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni a “Trojan Horse” for Egypt? By Aklog Birara. Dr. [ Part 2 of 8] “ I follow the passionate discussion on the #GERD with interest. But the fundamental truth is – a country which does not contribute one drop of water to the Nile (#Egypt) – cannot demand 100% of
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Washington Update – by Mesfin Mekonen July 30, 2022 On July 21, Ms. Tsigereda Mulugeta, joined by Ms. Raisa Leventul met with representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to discuss the June 18 massacre of 1,500 Amhara people in Tole, Wellega. This was a follow up from
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The west is rigidly stuck in its heydays of colonialism and slavery. And it has a very good reason for being so stuck, albeit sentimental. In its heydays, the west viewed itself as the only source of light – as the Sun – of the world, all non-western countries being dark planets revolving around it. Being dark
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#Ethiopia: Clarification on the incident in #Serdo, Afar region, involving our recent convoy to Tigray. pic.twitter.com/8rtzvHjc5S — ICRC Ethiopia (@ICRCEthiopia) July 30, 2022 ICRC exposes criminal activities carried to Tigrai Dr. Tedros , WHO, was exposed his cheating approach to international community
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Sami Hegazi Daily News Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry submitted a letter to the president of the UN Security Council on Friday, to register Egypt’s categorical rejection of Ethiopia’s continuation of filling the mega Nile dam unilaterally without an agreement with Egypt and Sudan on the dam’s filling and operation. The letter stressed that this
The attached piece is an excerpt from a paper that I am writing on 6 major world religions. In light of what transpired in Ethiopia last month I felt it would be timely to share my two cents on the matter. Please don`t attempt to convert me as I won`t dare do that to you:
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Belayneh Abate The eyes and the bodies of the massacred Amaras in the recent genocide have not yet decomposed. The survivors are in an excruciating physical and mental anguish. The future is uncertain for the rest of the Amaras who are considered as alien in their own country. And yet, a lot of demagogues are
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Yonas Biru, PhD As I have maintained in several of my articles, the Ethiopian political landscape is dominated by two groups of people: Hermitized souls whose mindset is stuck in yester-century and those who have lost their soul to either Marxism or tribalism. The former sees their articles of faith as self-evident truth and the
By: Merhatsidk Mekonnen Abayneh Dwelling under a Constitutional Roof Regardless of its antique existence as a sovereign political sub-division, Ethiopia can hardly claim to have that long history of constitutional governance, (only 91 years to be exact). During its entire existence which has continued for thousands of years, the country’s crude experimentation of constitutional rule
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