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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
Some Oromo nationalists have allied with TPLF, threatening inter-ethnic peace in Ethiopia. by Yohannes Gedamu Yohannes Gedamu is a lecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA, US. 28 Jul 2020 Ethiopia has returned to normal after weeks of ethnic violence and unrest triggered by the June 29 murder of the revered Oromo singer, Read more
Africa Requires Ethiopia Fill Its Dam Lawrence Freeman July 17, 2020 Ethiopia is entering a crucial period for the future of its nation, as we approach the second half of July. Ethiopia must use the forthcoming rainy season (July to September) to begin the partial filling of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) being built Read more
Mimi Alemayehou 2 Jul 2020 In the last several months, Covid-19 has taken up nearly every news headline in nearly every country in the world. The health impact, testing, confinement, and trying to curb the pandemic have rightly been at the forefront. In the developed world, conversations have been about corporate losses and the availability Read more
Briefing to the Security Council on Peace and Security in Africa, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary A. DiCarlo Thank you, Mr. President. The Blue Nile, which contributes approximately 85 per cent of the main Nile volume when it merges with the White Nile in Khartoum, is an important transboundary water resource, critical for Read more
ምንጭ፡ https://www.bbc.com/amharic በሺዎች የሚቆጠሩ ኢትዮጵያዊያን ስደተኞች በሳኡዲ አረቢያ እስር ቤቶች ውስጥ በከፍተኛ ችግር ውስጥ ይገኛሉ። ስደተኞቹ ለቢቢሲ በላኩት ተንቀሳቃሽ ምስሎች፤ ቁጥራቸው ከፍተኛ የሆኑ ስደተኞች በጠባብ እና ሞቃታማ ቦታ ላይ በአንድ ላይ ታጭቀው በአስከፊ ሁኔታ ላይ ሆነው ይታያሉ። ስሙ እንዲጠቀስ ያልፈለገ አንድ ወጣት ከሦስት ወራት ገደማ በፊት በየመንመመ በሁቲ አማፂያንና በሳኡዲ መካከል በነበረው ጦርነት ሕይወቱ Read more
[KGVID]https://dinkneshethiopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/belenSeyoum.mp4[/KGVID] AFP•June 29, 2020 Robbie COREY-BOULET The Blue Nile flowing through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The project is passionately supported by the Ethiopian public despite the tensions it has stoked with Egypt and Sudan downstream The Blue Nile flowing through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The project is passionately supported by the Ethiopian public Read more
Robbie COREY-BOULET , AFP•June 27, 2020 Ethiopia says the mega-dam is essential for its development, but Egypt and Sudan worry about access to vital water supplies from the Nile Ethiopia says the mega-dam is essential for its development, but Egypt and Sudan worry about access to vital water supplies from the Nile (AFP Photo/EDUARDO SOTERAS) Read more
Source: qz.com By Zecharias Zelalem In an extension of a bilateral dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over the $4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam being built on the Nile River, Egyptian hackers launched a cyber attack on a number of Ethiopian government websites over the course of the past week. The two countries have been at Read more
Sept 14, 2019: President Isaias Afwerki departed to Khartoum in early morning hours today for official, two-day, visit to the Sudan on the invitation of Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, President of Sudan’s Sovereign Council. Presidential entourage includes FM Osman Saleh & Pre. Adviser Yemane G/ab. President Isaias Afwerki and his entourage were accorded Read more
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2020 In recent months negotiations have stalled and there has been an escalation of tensions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that impacts, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) encourages the continued cooperation and peaceful negotiations of all stakeholders in the construction of the GERD. These negotiations should Read more
Lee Keath and Samy Magdy, Associated Press June 22, 2020, 7:33 AM EDT Egypt wants the United Nations Security Council to “undertake its responsibilities” and prevent Ethiopia from starting to fill its massive, newly built hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile next month without an agreement, Cairo’s foreign minister Sameh Shukry said. Ethiopia announced on Read more
