Ethiopian Athletics team is celebrating its outstanding victory at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon with residents of Addis Ababa by touring the streets of the capital. The athletics team has been given a hero’s welcome upon arrival to Addis Ababa on Wednesday after a remarkable performance at the world athletics championships. A national […]
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Journalist Temesgen Dessalegn has been detained for the past two months just for expressing his opinion. The charges keep changing and there’s no valid reason for keeping him in detention. The coming Thursday July 28 he will appear in court yet again for a verdict on his application for bail. His family, friends and colleagues
By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh According to the World Bank, Russia holds the world’s largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Over the past years, Russia has expressed heightened interest in exploring and producing oil and gas in Africa. Emboldened African leaders and industry executives have accepted proposals,
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Abiy is running the country like his personal project, more like an absolute monarch. Watching his speeches at the Parliament is like watching a kindergarten teacher lecturing his/her 4- and 5-year-old students. The only thing missing are crayons and coloring books in front of the parliamentarians. Watching his speeches before the PP Executive Committee
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Al Mariam’s Commentaries July 26, 2022 Even though Part VII of my commentary on Samantha Power’s “major foreign policy speech” of June 7, 2022 below stands on its own merits, I recommend first reading Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI to gain a comprehensive understanding of my analysis and arguments. The end of history,
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by Yale Climate Connections TEAM JULY 26, 2022 An Ethiopian mustard plant called carinata has been attracting attention, not for its culinary use, but because its seeds can be used to create a more climate-friendly jet fuel. “It has high oil content, high lipid content,” says Farhad Masum of Argonne National Laboratory. “You can refine
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Attributable to Ms Paula Gil, President of MSF Spain 26 July 2022 — It is with great disappointment that I concluded a six-day visit to Addis Ababa this weekend. Over one year on since the killing of our three colleagues in Tigray Region on 24 June 2021, I had hoped to meet the grieving families
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Rasmus Sonderriis Danish-Chilean journalist who has spent a total of over six years in Ethiopia since 2004 Ethiopia definitely has a strong shared Ethiopian identity, but also various ethnic and linguistic identities, which can co-exist harmoniously or be in tension with unitary patriotism. Historically, a majority of the country’s world-class long-distance runners have been the
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Yonas Biru, PhD Extremists in the Oromo and Amhara camps are wreaking havoc over Ethiopia. One can categorize the two as the ኬኛ and የኛ factions of Oromo and Amhara extremists, respectively. Their intractable conflicts reflect uncompromising desires to shape Ethiopia in their respective political theology. The ኬኛ faction represents extremists both in and outside
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Contact information: Girma Berhanu Department of Education and Special Education (Professor) University of Gothenburg Box 300, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden E-mail: Girma.Berhanu@ped.gu.se Introduction In recent weeks, international media outlets have given a good deal of attention to the massacres in Western Wollega, Ethiopia. Barely two weeks after more than one thousand Amhara citizens were butchered in Tole Kebebe (Gimbi district in Wollega region), a new report on the massacre
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On 18 June hundreds of Amhara residents in Oromia region were killed and scores injured Victims’ family members claim atrocities committed by Oromo Liberation Army Most of those killed were unarmed women and children, including newborns ‘They hit me with bullets, and they slaughtered my husband. I was lying among six dead bodies until I
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Br Dr. Suleiman Walhad July 25th, 2022 The East Africa Community was first established in 1967. It was, indeed, a reforming of the old British East Africa which included the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The latter two, Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to create the new state of Tanzania and the block then
