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Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:12 GMT
Streamlining Turmeric Production As a Gainful Cash Crop
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is a country endowed with many spices products. By adding values to spice products and processing part of them, the nation exports spice to various parts of the world. Spice is, therefore, one area that helps the country t...

Thu, 13 May 2021 08:15:11 GMT
Ethiopia's Axum Findings Ignore Massacre of Civilians
[HRW] Government's Investigation Underscores Need for Independent, International Inquiry

Wed, 12 May 2021 15:45:08 GMT
Security Forces in Oromia Publicly Execute a Young Man - Report
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The communication bureau of Kellem Wollega zone of the Oromia regional state yesterday posted on its Facebook page announcing that the city's security forces have captured a member of 'Abba Torbe', a name of a group th...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:18 GMT
Interim Administration Expresses Commitment to Make a Difference
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABBABA- Tigray Interim Administration announced that the administration is ready to work in collaboration with any cooperative organ so as to restore peace, carry out lifesaving activities and rehabilitate conflict victims in...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:17 GMT
EU to Deepen Strategic Relationship With the Horn of Africa
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA (ENA) - Council of the European Union on Monday approved conclusions affirming the EU's commitment to give new impetus to its partnership with the Horn of Africa, and establishing a new strategy for the region. A geo-st...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:16 GMT
A Move That Created a Revival for Shoe Factories
[Ethiopian Herald] The production of leather shoes in Ethiopia dates from the late 1930s when Armenian merchants founded two shoe factories in Addis Ababa. These factories nurtured a number of shoemakers, who opened their own factories in Addis Ababa...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:18 GMT
Organizations Center Improving Continental Health
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA--United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Business Coalition for Health (ABCHealth) have signed a partnership to develop two initiatives centering continental health boost. A press release sen...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:15 GMT
Building a Culture of Democracy and Press Freedom - a Long and Complex Process
[Ethiopian Herald] As we observe Freedom of the Press day this week, it would be relevant to share some reflections on how democracy and press freedom are intertwined and how deficit in one area is reflected in the other, and this interdependence is ...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:13 GMT
Premier, AU Chairperson Exchange Views On Current Issues
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA--Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (Ph.D) and Congolese President and current African Union(AU) Chairperson Félix Tshisekedi here yesterday discussed extensively on various current issues including the tripartite negotiation o...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:09 GMT
With Cooperation, Trust We Can Prosper
[Ethiopian Herald] Given its national importance and the irreplaceable economic and social benefits it yields to the national economy, Ethiopia has started constructing a flagship hydropower dam (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam-GERD) at its water res...

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:06 GMT
Ministry Expanding Sekota Declaration to 200 Woredas
[Ethiopian Herald] Secures 31.2 million USD grant from ADB

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:56:22 GMT
Ethiopia Must Set Right Environment for Election, U.S. Says
[VOA] Washington -- The United States said it "strongly supports democratization in Ethiopia" as it nears a national election June 5, while noting a "free, fair, and credible election" can happen only with a conducive electoral environment.

Wed, 12 May 2021 07:06:58 GMT
Ugandan Sides Draw Kenya, Ethiopia in Continental Qualifiers
[Monitor] Uganda and Ethiopia are slowly creating a women's football rivalry that might never go away.

Wed, 12 May 2021 08:16:14 GMT
Nit, Ethiopian College Sign MOU for Exchange Programme
[Daily News] NATIONAL Institute of Transport (NIT) has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MoU) with Ethiopia's Dire Dawa Polytechnic College to explore collaboration in academic exchange programme and research activities.

Wed, 12 May 2021 07:41:55 GMT
Canada Gives U.S.$2.2 Million to FAO to Mitigate Effects of Covid-19, Desert Locusts
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Government of Canada has contributed USD$ 2.2 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s program safeguarding livelihoods affected by COVID-19 and desert locusts in Ethiopia.

Wed, 12 May 2021 05:20:01 GMT
President Tshisekedi Arrives in Addis Ababa
[ENA] President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the current head of the African Union, Félix Tshisekedi has arrived in Addis Ababa.

Wed, 12 May 2021 04:56:22 GMT
Election Expected to Deepen Rifts
[DW] Ethiopians will vote in June to elect a new parliament. But electoral registration is patchy and opposition parties plan to boycott the ballot. Experts fear that simmering ethnic tensions will escalate.

Tue, 11 May 2021 05:41:18 GMT
Kenya-Ethiopia Peace Meeting Stalls Due to Heavy Rains
[Nation] The planned security meeting between Kenya and Ethiopia over the fast-deteriorating relationship between Garre and Degodia clans in Mandera has been postponed.

Mon, 10 May 2021 10:12:57 GMT
Ethiopia-Sudan Border Tensions Must Be De-Escalated
[ISS] A potential border war brewing between Sudan and Ethiopia threatens to destabilise the two nations and the entire region. How the issue is handled will also have severe consequences for political transitions in both countries.

Wed, 12 May 2021 07:39:57 GMT
Tigrayans Repatriated From Saudi Arabia Kept in Detention, Police Unwilling to Comment
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Among the ethnic Tigryans who experienced arbitrary arrest are refugees who were repatriated from Saudi Arabia on April 5, 2021. The returnees were jailed in Saudi Arabia and welcomed to Addis Ababa with yet another ar...

Tue, 11 May 2021 06:06:05 GMT
'A Lack of Food, Water, Sanitation and Blankets' in Shire
[Agenzia Fides] Shire -- Thousands of refugees from neighboring areas have fled the fury of the fighting in recent months. They gather in the city's state schools, where they are monitored and assisted by some international organizations, but are dep...

Tue, 11 May 2021 04:38:41 GMT
Muslim Clerics Demand Accountability After Crackdown On Planned 'Grand Iftar'
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A Grand Iftar event organized by the Ethiopian-Muslim community of Addis Abeba, in collaboration with Halal Promotion Plc., was violently dispersed when security forces prevented thousands Muslims who descended on Mesk...

Tue, 11 May 2021 04:37:08 GMT
Orthodox Church Holy Synod Distances Itself From Patriarch's Remarks On Tigray - Govt Media
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Government media quoted the General Secretary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Twahdo Church Holy Synod and Archbishop of Sidama and Gedeo Dioceses, His Holiness Abune Yoseph, as saying that the remarks made by His Holiness A...

Mon, 10 May 2021 08:10:46 GMT
'I Am Alive, but I Feel Like I Am Dead' - A Migrant Grieves for 3 Children
[UN News] Misrah, an undocumented migrant worker, and her family, left their home in Ethiopia hoping for a better life. Instead, her three children are now dead, drowned during a perilous sea crossing across the Gulf of Aden, when the overloaded boat...

Wed, 12 May 2021 07:42:30 GMT
'Grand Ethiopian Street Iftar 2021' Event to Be Held Today, Muslim Clerics Praise Efforts By City Administration
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The organizers of the 'Grand Ethiopian Street Iftar 2021', an event that was originally scheduled to take place on Sunday May 9, 2021 and was violently dispersed by security forces, announced on social media that the e...

Mon, 10 May 2021 05:06:28 GMT
Orthodox Church Leader Accuses Government of Wanting to Destroy Tigray
[RFI] Abune Mathias, the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, has accused the government of wanting to destroy Tigray.

Sun, 09 May 2021 10:40:10 GMT
U.S. Senators' Call for Postponing Ethiopian Election Foolish - Lawrence Freeman
[Ethiopian Herald] The call five United States Senators made to the U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman for the postponement of Ethiopia's forthcoming General Elections displayed a 'shallow understanding and ignorance' about th...

Sat, 08 May 2021 13:41:28 GMT
Case for Ceasefire, Dialogue and Reconciliation in Tigray
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The war in Tigray is now in its 6th month. The human and material damage is yet to be fully assessed, but is expected to be exponential. Mounting reports of atrocities and war crimes committed by the warring parties ar...

Sat, 08 May 2021 10:33:00 GMT
Orthodox Patriarch Condemns Tigray War As 'Barbarism'
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In a video privately recorded by Dennis Wadley, international director, of Bridges of Hope, His Holiness Abune Mathias I, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC), sent out a message to millions of th...

Sat, 08 May 2021 10:41:23 GMT
Council Urges EU to Reconsider Election Observation Stance
[Ethiopian Herald] The Ethiopian Political Parties Joint Council urged European Union to reconsider its stance and observe the 6th Ethiopian general elections. Briefing journalists after a two-day consultative meeting with its members, Council Chairp...



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