Locust invasion creates food crisis for 1 million Ethiopians
Asha Khalif Ali, 35, an internally displaced Ethiopian, carries her son in her wheat field that was damaged by heavy rains and desert locusts [File: Giulia Paravicini/Reuters]The UN says locusts in...
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Participants included Major General Zewdu Belay, Commander of Eastern Division of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and Major General Nuh Ismail Tani, the Chief of Staff of Somaliland Armed...
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Yohannes Kinfu (PhD) A personal perspective on managing COVID-19 Addis Abeba, April 22/2020 – Few events, in our shared humanity, have divided and united the world at the same time as COVID-19. In...
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The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago is deeply saddened by the loss of Mr. Mengistie Asressie (affectionately referred to as Gash Mengistie), who passed away after fighting Covid-19...
View ArticleEthiopia and Eritrea: A wedding, birth and baptism at the border
A peace deal between neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea ending two decades of tension has transformed the border areas, reports the BBC’s Rob Wilson. Sat in a ground-floor flat in the city of Adigrat,...
View ArticleWHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL WAS TOP ETHIOPIAN OFFICIAL WHILE ITS GOVERNMENT WAS...
Peter Hasson World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Was A Top Ethiopian Official While The Ethiopian Government Was Accused Of Widespread Human Rights Violations. World...
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By Sertse Desta Now the US contributes over a third of confirmed cases and a quarter of deaths of the world COVID19 data. Most nations that were highly hit by the virus seem now controlling it. The...
View ArticleEthiopia: Desperate Times Call for Extraordinary Constitutional Measures...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global health, economic and social system. Two weeks ago, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a law (Proclamation No. 3/2020 “State...
View ArticleTwo Local Ethiopian Jazz Greats Have New Albums
Steve Kiviat Every Friday from 2016 until recently in a small, second-floor room of the Crystal City restaurant Enjera, Ethiopian guitarist Selam Seyoum Woldemariam has led his trio through minor key,...
View ArticleEthiopians flee Djibouti as coronavirus cases rise
By TESFA-ALEM TEKLE More by this Author Addis Ababa, Health Extension workers of the Ministry of Health measure the temperature of a girl during a door to door screening to curb the spread of the...
View ArticleEthiopian economic liberalisation threatened by looming crisis
By David Whitehouse Posted on Thursday, 30 April 2020 Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri The process of economic liberalisation in Ethiopia risks grinding to a halt as...
View ArticleIMF Executive Board Approves US$411 Million in Emergency Assistance to...
Ethiopia is facing a pronounced economic slowdown and an urgent balance of payments need owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this urgent need, the IMF approved US$411 million emergency...
View ArticleA constitutional path towards political normalization
Now is the time for Ethiopia’s democratic institutions to step up and play their role in the transition, writes Mamo Mihretu, Senior Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, exclusively for...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Prime Minister calls on developed countries to help Africa through...
Developed countries must hear and respond to the developing world’s pleas to help overcome the crisis. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calls on developed countries to help Africa through the...
View ArticleDesperate Times Call for Extraordinary Constitutional Measures: The Necessity...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Special Author’s Note: In Part I of this commentary last week, I examined Proclamation No. 3/2020 (“State of Emergency Proclamation Enacted to Counter and Control the Spread of...
View ArticleEritrea’s Isaias Afwerki makes surprise visit to Ethiopia
Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (left) and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed talk during the inauguration of the Tibebe Ghion Specialized Hospital in Bahir Dar, northern Ethiopia, on November...
View ArticleProfessor researching Covid-19 was killed in an apparent murder-suicide,...
By Carma Hassan and Rebekah Riess, CNN May 6, 2020 University of Pittsburgh professor Bing Liu was shot and killed in apparent murder-suicide, police said. (CNN)A University of Pittsburgh professor on...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Is Laying Bare a Global Water Crisis
Insufficient water for washing is likely to worsen the coronavirus in the poorest nations. There’s a better way forward. BY ALAN NICOL MAY 12, 2020 A woman washes her hands in the courtyards of her old...
View ArticleEthiopian Forces in Somalia Shot Down Kenyan Plane
By Harun Maruf/VOA An Ethiopian anti-aircraft missile brought down the Kenyan plane that crashed in the Somali town of Bardale last week, killing six people on board, multiple sources have told VOA...
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