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SEBASTIAN SCHEINER Thu, December 3, 2020, 4:31 AM EST Virus Outbreak Israel Ethiopian Immigrants Ethiopian immigrants arrive at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants on Thursday arrived to a festive ceremony at Israel’s international airport as the government took a step toward carrying out its Read more
BY TAARIFA RWANDADecember 3, 2020 Ethiopia has the largest number of livestock more than any other country in Africa, according to the latest livestock census statistics conducted on the African continent Ethiopia leads with a staggering 60.39 million cattle while Tanzania in the second position has an estimated total of 33.9million cattle. Tanzania’s National Bureau of Read more
November 29, 2020 By Lawrence Freeman Today, the Ethiopian government is reporting that the National Defense Forces have taken control of city of Mikelle, the capital city of Tigray, as well as the airport. This portends the effective defeat of the opposition forces that violently rebelled against the nation over three weeks ago, and the Read more
The 21-year-old Walelegn bettered the earlier course record of 59:06, which was held in the name of compatriot Guye Adola, set in 2014 Ethiopians Amedework Walelegn and Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed course records to win the men’s and women’s titles respectively in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon held in a bio-secure environment amid the COVID-19 Read more
Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw produced a stunning run over in the 2020 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race. Yehaulaw clocked the second-fastest women’s time ever over the distance when she crossed the line in 64:46. The 21-year-old, who had to settle for third at the World Athletics Read more
Mortar rounds and assault weapons seized in Kassala state as fighting rages in neighbouring Ethiopia. Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces soldiers confiscated the weapons near the border with Ethiopia [Umit Bektas/Reuters] 29 Nov 2020 Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have seized significant amounts of weapons, ammunition and military equipment on its eastern border with Ethiopia. The Read more
After using the people of Tigray as a political shield to pose an existential threat to the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia for nearly 30 years, the TPLF will soon be served a final notice: surrender or go six feet under! BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN reviously in power for almost three decades, the Tigray People’s Read more
Posted in Al Mariam’s Commentaries By almariam On November 10, 2020 Source: almariam.com “We shall never forget the barbarism and savagery committed by the greedy and ruthless TPLF junta on members of our Northern Command. We shall not rest even for a moment until this junta is brought to justice and punished. I would like Read more
Soon after moving to Austin, Minnesota, Oballa Oballa walked into the mayor’s office and asked if there was anything he could do for the city. He just became Austin’s first Black city council member. Oballa Oballa, a former refugee from Ethiopia who became a naturalized citizen less than one year ago, made history this election Read more
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (CNN)Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed showed no sign on Thursday of halting a military campaign in the Tigray region, despite international pressure to avert civil war with a powerful ethnic faction. A humanitarian source said shelling and shooting had been heard in the region since the early hours of Thursday, and nearly two dozen soldiers Read more
A pulmonologist in Maryland said if more actions aren’t immediately taken to protect African Americans against the coronavirus pandemic “multiple deaths will continue to occur.” Dr. Asefa Jejaw Mekonnen, who currently practices pulmonary/sleep medicine in Rockville and is an outspoken advocate against health disparities affecting the African American community, said that newly released data shows Read more
Recently, I watched the disturbing video that showed President Trump’s phone conversation with the prime minister of Sudan discussing Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam project. President Trump describes himself as the deal-maker between Egypt and Ethiopia on this project, set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa. He states Ethiopia broke the deal that he Read more
27 October 2020 Ethiopian authorities have banned peaceful protests against ethnically motivated killings which were due to take place on 28 October, in direct violation of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today. The National Movement of Amhara (NAMA), an opposition political party, had called for protests following the Read more
የአሜሪካው ፕሬዚዳንት ዶናልድ ትራምፕ ግብፅ የህዳሴ ግድብን እንደምታፈርስ መናገራቸውን ተከትሎ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር በኢትዮጵያ የአሜሪካ አምባሳደርን በመጥራት ማብራሪያ ጠይቋል። የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትር ገዱ አንዳርጋቸው በኢትዮጵያ ተቀማጭ የሆኑትን የአሜሪካ አምባሳደር ማይክ ሬይኖርን የጠሩ ሲሆን ፕሬዚዳንት ትራምፕ ከሱዳንና ከእስራኤል ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሮች ጋር በስልክ ባደረጉት ውይይት ስለ ግድቡ የተናገሩትን ነገር ማብራሪያ እንዲሰጡ ጠይቀዋቸዋል። ዶናልድ ትራምፕ በስልክ ንግግራቸው “ግብፅ Read more
ELIAS MESERET Sat, October 24, 2020, 5:47 AM EDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Saturday denounced “belligerent threats” over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile River, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will “blow up” the project it has called an existential threat. Ethiopia’s Read more
Protesters chant and sing solidarity songs as they barricade barricade the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Wednesday to protest against police brutality and the killing of protesters by the military, at Magboro, Ogun State, Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images This morning, human rights activist Rinu Oduala could still hear gunfire outside her house in Lagos, Read more
Fitting nicely with a recent report that Africans are exposed to more fake news than the average Western media consumer, the Nigerian president recently had to address allegations that he was a clone or doppelganger named Jubril from Sudan. “I will still go strong,” Buhari told a crowd in Poland while attending a conference there. His staff Read more
One year after finishing second in the 10,000 meters at the 2019 IAAF World Championships, Letesenbet Gidey became the fastest woman to ever run 5,000 meters on the track. On Wednesday, October 7, the Ethiopian shattered the world record, which previously stood for 12 years, at the NN Valencia World Record Day in Valencia, Spain, Read more
A year after Nobel, Abiy tries to beautify a divided Ethiopia Tigray went ahead with its regional election, ignoring a federal decision to postpone all voting because of the coronavirus pandemic Robbie COREY-BOULET Thu, October 8, 2020, 12:01 AM EDT Source: https://www.france24.com/ For the past year, workers have been busy transforming a disused plot of Read more
By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia has banned all flights over its giant new hydropower dam on the Blue Nile for security reasons, the head of its civil aviation authority said on Monday, as the president pledged the dam would begin generating power in the next 12 months. The move could worsen Ethiopia’s Read more
By Andy Sims, PA | Source: yahoo.com | Sun, October 4, 2020, 9:56 AM EDT Eliud Kipchoge’s reign as the king of the London Marathon came Read more
In an oral statement before the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor expressed its concerns over the ongoing flagrant violations against Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia. In a joint statement with the International Institution for Rights and Developments (IRDG) during the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Read more
This seminar examined key factors that shape the credibility and legitimacy of national dialogue processes. National dialogue for Ethiopia – lessons from the Horn This seminar is delivered by the Training for Peace Programme (TfP) with funding from the government of Norway. The ISS is also grateful for support from the members of the ISS Read more
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday. Jawar, founder of the Oromiya Media Network and a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress party, was arrested in June amid the widespread unrest Read more
Successful Female Writers, Directors, and Producers Set the Nation Apart From Hollywood, Bollywood, and the Rest of World Cinema Above: Filmmaker, expert on the Ethiopian motion picture industry, and professor Eyerusalem Kassahun. Courtesy of Steven W. Thomas. by STEVEN W. THOMAS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 Among the many stories about Ethiopia’s long, multifaceted past and politically complicated present, an extraordinary transformation Read more
WRITTEN BY Jeff Pearce Source: medium.com If you want to know the history of modern journalism in Africa, it starts with “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” A news article about one white guy going off to find another white guy, a missionary, in what today is Tanzania. In the newspaper account, the Africans were pretty much Read more
By Samuel Gebre September 2, 2020, 4:02 AM EDT Updated on September 2, 2020, 10:19 AM EDT The U.S. suspended aid to Ethiopia over its decision to fill a hydropower dam on a tributary of the Nile River before agreeing with Egypt and Sudan on how the reservoir will be managed. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has Read more
Ethiopian computer scientist, Rediet Abebe, who is also an assistant Computer Science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, wins the Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM SIGKDD, world’s largest computing organization. Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), on its twitter page, announced that Rediet has won the prestigious thesis award Read more
Written by Carmela Rodriguez on November 13, 2018 Carmela is a journalist from London. She’s traveled from Asia to South America, where she got (temporarily) lost in the Peruvian Amazon. She quit the rainy UK and moved to Medellín, Colombia, where she has lived for two years 1. Ethiopia Many historians agree that Ethiopia is one of the Read more
By Zecharias Zelalem August 25, 2020 Ethiopia is finishing plans to launch its second satellite into orbit next month, just eight months after the launch of its ETRSS-1 Satellite last December. The country’s space ambitions, backed by China’s funds and its satellite launch sites, has seen Ethiopian engineers design the satellites in an initiative co-funded Read more
Malware which signed users up to subscription services without their permission has been found on thousands of mobiles sold in Africa. Anti-fraud firm Upstream found the malicious code on 53,000 Tecno handsets, sold in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana and South Africa. Manufacturer Transsion told Buzzfeed it was installed in the supply chain without its knowledge. Read more
ABUJA, Nigeria—The leaders of the coup that ousted Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita spent most of the year training in Russia before returning to boot out the democratically-elected leader at gunpoint, according to sources in the Malian military. The rebels took control of Mali’s largest military base in Kati, just outside the capital, Bamako, on Tuesday before storming Keita’s Read more
Teddy Afro has posted translations of his lyrics in English, French and Arabic on Facebook to get his message across Pop stars in Ethiopia have been belting out tunes marking a victory in what is seen as a battle with Egypt over who has rights to the waters of the River Nile. In June, Ethiopia Read more
From fatal fights on university campuses to serious armed conflict, political violence in Ethiopia has shifted from resistance against the regime to ethnic strife, including riots and clashes instigated by ethnic militias. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s failure to adequately control the situation could jeopardize the Nobel Prize winner’s performance in the upcoming election, as many Read more
Source: bbc.com At least 10 people have been killed in a shoot-out between jailed militant Islamists and security officers at a prison in Somalia, government spokesman Ismail Mukhtar has said. The al-Shabab militants had attempted to escape from the heavily guarded prison in the capital, Mogadishu. An investigation is under way into how the Read more
Addis Ababa July 29/2020 (ENA) African Union (AU) is the best platform for resolving the dispute about the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation said. The three countries have made major progress on the dispute in talks mediated by the African Union; and they have Read more
