FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AWARD announces the Call for the Second Cohort of its Fellowship targeting African Women in Agricultural Policy The call for the second Cohort of the USAID-funded program is open to female policy practitioners from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Senegal. African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) has opened […]
Introduction On 17 April 2023, I saw a government press release concerning a half million women from Amhara region recruited for domestic work in Saudi Arabia. The news on Aljazeera mentions the age of these recruits to be 18-40 years and they were taking housekeeping and other job skill trainings for twenty days in their
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A Federal police vehicle at Bole International Airport in Addis Abeba. Photo: Federal Police Thank you for reading this post, don’t forget to subscribe! Addis Abeba – Ethiopian Security and Intelligence taskforce says it has detained activist and journalist Gobeze Sisay, who was listed among a dozen “wanted” individuals who the government says were suspected of committing “terrorism”
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Ethiopian Music : Getish Mamo – New Ethiopian Music 2023
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By Dr. Suleiman Walhad May 5th, 2023 Instability and fragility are descriptions that mark the Horn of Africa States region. The new flare up of the Sudan conflict only adds to the miseries of the region. This has been the case of the region over the last four decades and prompted by internal conflicts based
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By LJDemissie May 06, 2023 Dear Prime Minister, I hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits. I am writing to express my gratitude and admiration for your leadership and your heart of gold. You have done so much for our country and our people, especially in these difficult times. You are truly
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Isaiah Reynolds/Insider May 5, 2023, Following the Battle of Magdala, orphaned Prince Alemayehu was taken by British soldiers to Britian. Taken under the wing of British nobility, Alemayehu was entirely severed from his life in Ethiopia. He is buried at Windsor Castle, but Ethiopian advocates are calling for a proper repatriation of his remains. In
By Desalegn Birara In summer 2009, when I returned to my birth town having been to Addis Ababa University as a sophomore, everyone in my village was drowned in malaria & cholera outbreak. Our neighbor, a family of eight persons were all sick and had no one to prepare meals. The moment I arrived at
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By Maya Misikir/VOA Ethiopia’s Human Rights Commission has denounced security measures against protesters in the Amhara region this week that it said led to the deaths of civilians. The government-established commission, which is monitoring operations in the region, reported civilian deaths, though it did not specify how many people were killed. The regional director for
Yonas Biru, PhD This article is inspired by a recent op-ed on Addis Standard online titled “Critiquing the anti-Oromo nascent narrative of disgruntled Amhara elite in the diaspora: A rejoinder to the wrong manifesto.” The Manifesto in reference is my proposal titled “Averting Civil War in Ethiopia: An Emergency Manifesto.” Speaking of my manifesto, the authors
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz departed for his trip to East Africa on Thursday, heading first to Ethiopia before crossing into neighboring Kenya. It is his second time in Africa since taking the top job and aims to focus on peacekeeping and green energy, as well as the consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine. His visit comes amid an outburst of violence in Sudan and just
