Ethiopia
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:03:06 GMTHealth Facilities Targeted in Tigray Region, Ethiopia - MSF
[MSF] Health facilities across Ethiopia's Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Of 106 health facilities visited by MSF ...
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:24:52 GMTScores Die in Migrant Detention Center Fire in Yemen
[HRW] Beirut -- UN Eminent Experts Group Should Investigate Alleged Houthi Abuses
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:34:29 GMTEthiopian Ambassador Discusses With Sudanese Acting Refugees Commissioner
[ENA] Ethiopian Ambassador in Sudan, Yibeltal Aemero met on Sunday with the Acting Commissioner of the Sudanese Commission for Refugees Ibrahim Abdalla.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:33:05 GMTKombolcha New Dry Port Coming Through
[Reporter] The Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services announced it has finalized preparations to construct a new dry port at Kombolcha with an estimated cost of 1.5 billion Birr.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:25:52 GMT296 Ethiopians Repatriated From Saudi Arabia
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Some 296 Ethiopians repatriated from Saudi Arabia, Jiddah to their homeland today, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 07:57:17 GMTKenyan Donates Sh48 Million to Bermuda Charity After Losing Family in Ethiopian Airlines Air Crash
[Nairobi News] Paul Njoroge who lost five family members on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 two years ago has donated Sh48 million ($446,000) to charity in Bermuda.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:34:29 GMTResearching Sexuality - Reflections On My Experience Journeying Through a Complex Field
[African Arguments] Researching sexuality has often encountered challenges concerning its legitimacy everywhere and more so in Africa. The situation in Ethiopia seems to be relatively more daunting compared to other African countries. Whereas in some...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:44:08 GMTEthiopia Launches Covid-19 Vaccination
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia has today officially launched COVID-19 vaccination across the country at a ceremony held in Mekele, Tigray Regional State in the presence of Health Minister, Liya Taddesse , Regional and Federal government officials.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:42:48 GMTPM Abiy Says Govt Exerts Efforts to Expand Agricultural Dev't, Agro-Industry
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that the government of Ethiopia has been exerting efforts to expand agricultural development and agro-industry sector in a bid to enhance national economy of the country.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:38:01 GMTGERD's Second Round Filling Inevitable - Prof. Yacob Arsano
[Ethiopian Herald] There is no any single reason to prevent the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) second round filling as it is a matter of life and death to Ethiopia, so said Prof. Yacob Arsano.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:34:10 GMTEthiopia, Arab Emirates to Develop 500mw PV Projects
[Ethiopian Herald] The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Abu Dhabi future energy Company PJSC-Masdar inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop 500MW PV projects in Ethiopia.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:29:49 GMTEzema Accuses Incumbent, Board of Candidate Registration Irregularities
[Reporter] The Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice a.k.a. EZEMA announced that its candidates in Oromia region were unable to register for the upcoming election mainly due to the volatile security situation in the region, uncooperativeness of indiv...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:47:56 GMTRock Art - Cultural, Historic Treasure
[Ethiopian Herald] Anthropologists and archeologists define rock art as images carved, drawn, or painted onto immovable rock surfaces. As to them, rock art is explained in different ways-images that are carved or engraved into rock are called petrogl...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:46:30 GMTEthiopian Food Culture and Two Months of Fasting Season of Lent
[Ethiopian Herald] Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia are just starting the "grueling" two months of fasting known as Lent. For the coming two months, tens of millions of Ethiopian adherents of the Orthodox Tewahedo church will abstain from consuming me...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:45:40 GMTCorporation Striving to Be Competitive At East African Market - ECWC
[Ethiopian Herald] The Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWC) said that it has been working persistently to be competitive among construction companies at East Africa level.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:56 GMTU.S. Secretary of State Blinken's Ethnic Cleansing Allegations Unfounded - Mofa
[Ethiopian Herald] Overblowing things doesn't serve purpose of justice
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:27:10 GMTOvercoming Hurdles to Mount Effective Election Campaign
[Reporter] After repeated extensions due to several factors, the registration of candidates for the sixth general elections slated to be held in June this year officially came to conclusion early this week. According to the National Electoral Board o...
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:28:05 GMTAre Moves to Discourage Cash Hoarding Bearing the Opposite Impact?
[Reporter] Ethiopia's 2020/21 fiscal year has been quite different from its predecessors for the business community. The country's economy, tested by the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic since last year, has been unpredictable more than ever large...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:49:44 GMTYoungsters in Installation of Software Applications
[Ethiopian Herald] Empowering youngsters in innovational works is crucial to promote the advancement of the continent, particularly, Ethiopia. They have to ready themselves to acquire basic techniques in Science, Technology and Innovation, artificial...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:48:37 GMTNation Fast-Tracks Locust Fighting Capacity - Ministry of Agriculture
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia is expediting its capacity to undertake anti-locust operations with the view to thwarting recent recurring desert locust invasions, according to Ministry of Agriculture.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:47:20 GMTEthiopia Lauds Cooperation With South Korea, Japan
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen appreciated South Korea and Japan for their ongoing development cooperation with Ethiopia.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:43:48 GMTAgriculture Ministry Encouraged By Irrigation Farming in Realizing Food Self-Sufficiency
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Encouraging achievements have been registered in irrigation farming, particularly in wheat cultivation, during the last three years, according to Ministry of Agriculture.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:28:37 GMTTigray Crisis - Ethiopia Summons Its Ambassador to Ireland
[Nation] Diplomatic sources on Friday said that the Ethiopian government has summoned, Eshetu Dessie, its ambassador to Ireland, after outraged by the actions of the Irish government in connection with crises in the troubled northern Tigray region.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:26:08 GMTMore Than 40 Civilians Killed in Western Oromia
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A series of attacks in western Oromia regional state mounted by armed men against civilians since Saturday March 6 claimed the lives of at least 42 people so far, including women and children. The victims are members o...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:58:36 GMTTurkey Shows Interest to Boost Trade Relation With Ethiopia - Ambassador
[Ethiopian Herald] The relation between Ethiopia and Turkey reached to the level of best. Business and investment is growing. While Ethiopia exports agricultural products to Turkey, Turkey exports machinery, steel and iron to Ethiopia.
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:13:26 GMTEthiopians Across the Globe Denounce Meddling in Domestic Affairs
[Ethiopian Herald] Over the last week, the Ethiopian Diaspora community has been made to the streets to express their concern on the intervention of superpowers in the internal affairs of their home country. Thousands of Ethiopians and Eritreans have...
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:59:19 GMTPrivately-Owned Abattoir Begins Exporting Meat to Middle East
[Ethiopian Herald] JIJIGA - A modern abattoir built in Jijiga, capital of Somali State, with an outlay of 200 million Birr is exporting meat to four Middle East countries.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:46:58 GMTRwandans Tipped On Investment, Tourism Opportunities in Ethiopia
[New Times] The Ethiopian Ambassador to Rwanda, Lulit Zewdie, has shared with Rwandans the opportunities available in her country in the areas of investment and tourism, saying that both countries have many areas of common interest.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:33:03 GMTReply to the Ambassador - the War On Tigray Is an Ongoing Genocide in Ethiopia
[Daily Maverick] This is a response to the Ethiopian ambassador's letter to the editor titled 'Report on war in Ethiopia's Tigray province undermines peace efforts in the region'.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:21:15 GMTICRC Concerned About Humanitarian Situation in Rural Areas of Tigray
[ICRC] Fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region erupted over four months ago. While electricity, communication networks and water supply are gradually being restored and markets are reopening in the main towns, humanitarian access in rural areas, and off...