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Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:14:13 GMT
UN Security Council Breaks Silence, Calls for More Aid Access to Tigray
[VOA] As the conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region enters its sixth month, the U.N. Security Council broke its silence Thursday to call for scaled-up humanitarian access and "a restoration of normalcy."

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:28:57 GMT
Many Feared Dead in Renewed Violence in Central Gonder
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A renewed violence invoicing regional security forces and the Kimant community in central Gonder, in Amhara regional states, left several people dead and displaced as well as properties damaged.

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:30:22 GMT
UNSC Calls for Scaled Up, Unfettered Humanitarian Access in Tigray
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- As part of a continuation of the UNSC meeting held on April 15 at a closed door meeting at the request of the US under Any other Business (AOB), members of the SC reached at a consensus and issued a statement calling f...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:19:11 GMT
ICL Ethiopia Launches Mass Covid-19 Test Campaign in Tigray
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- International Clinical Laboratories (ICL) has launched free Covid-19 testing program for 50,000 people in Tigray. The Laboratory kicked off the massive campaign earlier this week in collaboration with Tigray Health Bur...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:47:40 GMT
Ghana Joins Kenya, Ethiopia in Adopting Digital Passports
[Nation] Weeks after Twitter opened its first Africa offices in the country, Ghana is on high gear in the use of technology, this time joining Kenya and Ethiopia in the use of the Covid-19 digital passport developed by the African Union (AU) through ...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:47:23 GMT
Kenya Pipeline Brush Aside Ethiopia's National Alcohol in Tunisia
[Nation] Kelibia -- Kenya Pipeline Thursday continued their bright start at the African Clubs Championships with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-7) win over Ethiopia's National Alcohol at Aissa Ben Nasr Arena here in Kelibia, Tunisia.

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:16:13 GMT
Security Council Press Statement on Ethiopia
[UN] The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Dinh Quy Dang (Viet Nam):

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:25:46 GMT
Amhara Prosperity Party Cautions Opposition Nama As Protest Rallies Spread Region-Wide
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Amhara Prosperity Party (APP), the Amhara regional state chapter of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party (PP), has issued a scathing criticism against the opposition, National Movement of Amhara (NaMA), accusin...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:13:53 GMT
Survivors Describe Being Shot By Soldiers in Tigray
[MSF] Twenty injured people treated at hospitals supported by MSF

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:32:58 GMT
Elections and Violence Are Incompatible
[Ethiopian Herald] There are people in our country who are preparing to use the upcoming election as an opportunity to seize to make their voice heard, not using the normal ways, but the illegal and undesirable one which is by using the threats of vi...

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:29:35 GMT
Kaffa Community Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
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Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:27:57 GMT
Curbing Senior Citizens' Challenges During Covid-19
[Ethiopian Herald] The Coronavirus pandemic still remains to be a huge threat for senior citizens across the world. In a research conducted on more than 44 thousand COVID-19 patients in China, around 2.3 percent of the death rate was on the patients ...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:13:09 GMT
Tigray Girl Walked 300km in Broken Flip-Flops to Escape Fighting - UNICEF
[UN News] Disturbing reports have continued to emerge of widespread abuse of civilians in Ethiopia's Tigray region, nearly six months since conflict erupted, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:55 GMT
Ethiopia Preparing for Third Round Massive Afforestation Campaign
[Ethiopian Herald] Two years ago Ethiopia has announced a vision of planting some 10 million indigenous trees in three years. This year the country has been preparing to hit the target set of planting some six billion trees.

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:54 GMT
Concerted Effort Against High Cost of Living
[Ethiopian Herald] One has put in social media communication peculiarly in Facebook a message reads, "The prices of all commodities like 'Teff' and cereals, that of vegetables, beer, beef and you name it alarmingly rise, but my salary remains stagnan...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:52 GMT
Tvet Centers, Universities Joint Efforts Hone Skills - Ministry
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDISS ABABA- Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institutes (TVETI) need to work in partner with universities to produce internationally competent, productive and civic minded citizens, said Ministry of Science and Hig...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:48 GMT
Overcoming Challenges, Realizing the Long-Awaited Credible Election
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is set to hold the 6th general elections in the coming June, 2021. All necessary preparations are underway so as to conduct credible election and contending political parties are campaigning with registration of voters con...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:44 GMT
Duty Free Import Regulation On Basic Food Items Necessary and Timely
[Ethiopian Herald] Last week the Ministry of trade and industry issued a timely regulation which allowed companies to import basic food items like rice, flour and other food items on duty free. Over the last two years, particularly in the advent of C...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:42 GMT
Ezema Expresses Election Related Concerns
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA--The government, National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), Civil Society Organization and other concerned bodies have to combine efforts so as to overcome election related challenges , so said Ethiopian Citizens for ...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:52 GMT
When Soccer Becomes Not Only a Passion but Also a National Culture
[Ethiopian Herald] Soccer is religion in some countries, a big money-spinner in others and the only hope for tens of thousands youngsters from the poorer regions of the world to achieve fame and fortune in rich countries. Soccer is also politics in s...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:52 GMT
Women Empowerment - a Matter of Necessity, Not Charity
[Ethiopian Herald] Sometimes it looks trivial in our country to talk about women empowerment now and then, but their live participation in all aspects has been a matter of necessity not to merely provide them with audacious charity. It is also crysta...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:51 GMT
Agency Debuts Traffic Fines Online Payment
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA- Addis Ababa City Traffic Management Agency has introduced new traffic fines online payment system aimed at avoiding long queues for paying the fines.

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:47 GMT
Nebe Opens Election Sub - Offices in Addis Ababa, Oromia
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA- The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) announced that it has opened 28 additional voter registration sub-offices in Addis Ababa and Oromia State.

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:46 GMT
Office Underlines Need for Protecting Enset
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA -Farmers and Wolayeta Sodo Zone Agriculture Office stressed that the increasing Enset plant diseases have seriously affected the ongoing food self-sufficiency in the Zone.

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:38:41 GMT
Tigray Conflict Strips Children of Protection, Education, Nutrition, UNICEF Says
[VOA] Geneva, Switzerland -- The U.N. children's fund warns the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray province is stripping tens of thousands of children of their rights, plunging them into a protection crisis that is causing them unimaginable long-...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:44:19 GMT
We Must Safeguard 20 Million People Downstream of Dam - Govt
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- Sudan's transitional government has made its position clear with regard to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, as negotiations on the issue between Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia remain at a deadlock. The Khartoum government'...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 07:59:26 GMT
UN Security Council Needs to Act On Ethiopia's Tigray Region
[HRW] Urgently Address Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:46:24 GMT
Egyptian Envoy to Meet Ramaphosa to Lobby Against Ethiopian Dam
[Daily Maverick] With tension mounting over Ethiopia's construction of a giant dam on the Nile, Egypt's foreign minister is to meet President Ramaphosa in Pretoria on Tuesday to seek support for Cairo's objection to Addis Ababa's unilateral filling o...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:53 GMT
Emma Call On Media to Uphold New Proclamation
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - The Ethiopian Mass Media Authority (EMMA) stated that all media outlets are expected to join hands to bring about significant change in the media industry complying with the new proclamation.

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:53 GMT
Some Int'l Media Reportages On GERD Damaging
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDISABABA - Some international news media companies unprofessional report on the ongoing Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) talks have caused a negative impact on the negotiation process and created misunderstanding among the ...



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