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Fifty trafficked Nigerian women have been rescued from Lebanon and returned home, Nigeria’s foreign minister says. They have all been placed in quarantine following their arrival on Sunday as a precaution against coronavirus. The country’s anti-trafficking agency will interview them about their experiences after their isolation ends. Last month, a Nigerian woman working as a Read more
A handout photo released showing Felicien Kabuga – AFP Source: yahoo.com French police seized the man regarded as the intellectual and financial mastermind behind the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, ending a transcontinental 26-year manhunt for “the Eichmann of Africa”. Félicien Kabuga, Africa’s most wanted fugitive, was arrested in the northern outskirts of Paris after Read more
Today, April 17, is the International Day of Peasant Struggle – a day to highlight the persecution and violence suffered by peasants and farmers around the world on a daily basis as a result of neoliberal policies. Increasingly, peasant farmers and land-based peoples are facing grave crises of human rights and dignity as big agribusiness, Read more
COMMENTARY / THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND DEADLY CONFLICT 15 APRIL 2020 Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Ethiopia has delayed elections slated for August and declared a state of emergency. Authorities should now consult with the opposition on how to manage the period ahead in order to smooth the country’s stuttering transition to multi-party democracy. Read more
ጎንደርን የጦር አውድማ ማድረግ የሚያስከትለው መዘዝ ኢትዮጵያን ማጥፋት ነው – አክሎግ ቢራራ (ዶር) “A life lived in fear is a life half lived,” a character in the 1992 Australian film “Strictly Ballroom,” attributed to the film’s director and co-writer, Baz Luhrmann. Dr. Aklog Birara On April 1, 2020, six months after atrocities were committed, most Read more
Source: https://issafrica.org/ The first ministerial-level meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) on the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region, planned for February 2020, was cancelled for undisclosed reasons. The meeting was expected to define Africa’s priorities and interests in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region, and chart the Read more
African Union’s 2020 campaign to achieve peace and end conflict, extremism, crime BY: ZIPPORAH MUSAU From Africa Renewal: December 2019 – March 2020 Source: https://www.un.org/ Realising a conflict-free Africa is the dream of every African. In this edition, we highlight the current hotspots; the root causes of conflicts; the various efforts in search of peaceful co-existence and Read more
Coronavirus crisis: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government is claiming emergency powers (AFP Photo/MICHAEL TEWELDE)Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopia on Wednesday declared a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far infected 55 people and resulted in two deaths there. It is the first state of emergency announced under Prime Minister Abiy Read more
At Bujumbura airport. Credit: dmitri_66 The world faces unprecedented crisis. The full health consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are yet to be calculated. This is not to say we should diminish the extent of previous catastrophes. The First World War cost 40 million lives, or 2.5% of the 1914 world population. This trauma was followed, within a Read more
Ethiopia and Egypt are in a heated standoff over a dam the former is building on the Blue Nile. To buy time for reaching a comprehensive settlement, the parties should agree on an interim fix covering the first two years of filling the dam’s reservoir. A dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt about the construction of Read more
The U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia told the government that an American Marine visiting the country in February showed symptoms of the coronavirus while there and later tested positive, after staying at a hotel at the same time as Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, people familiar with the matter said. In a meeting with Ethiopia’s health Read more
ግብጽ በአፍሪካ በርካታ በኮሮናቫይረስ የተያዙ ሰዎች ያሉባት አገር ሆናለች ግብጽ በአፍሪካ በርካታ በኮሮናቫይረስ የተያዙ ሰዎች ያሉባት አገር ስትሆን ደቡብ አፍሪካና አልጄሪያ ደግሞ በሁለተኛና በሦስተኛ ደረጃ ላይ ይገኛሉ። በግብጽ 166፣ በደቡብ አፍሪካ 62 እንዲሁም በአልጄሪያ 60 በኮረናቫይረስ መያዛቸው የተረጋገጡ ሰዎች ይገኛሉ። እስካሁን 30 የአፍሪካ አገራት ቫይረሱን በግዛታቸው ውስጥ መገኘቱን ሪፖርት አድርገዋል። ይህ ካርታ እስካሁን ድረስ የኮሮናቫይረስ Read more
By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Last updated: 8 hours ago Africa Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday announced that he had secured a continent wide support coronavirus support from Chinese businessman Jack Ma. Abiy said the package which was to benefit all African countries will comprise testing kits, masks and guideline books on treatment Read more
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia refuses to be pressured by the United States into signing a deal with Egypt and Sudan over its controversial dam on the Nile River, says Ethiopia’s foreign minister. In an interview with The Associated Press, Gedu Andargachew said the three countries need to resolve their differences without outside pressure. Read more
የኮሮናቫይረስ ያለበት አንድ ጃፓናዊ ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ መገኘቱን የጤና ጥበቃ ሚኒስትር ዶክተር ሊያ ታደሰ አስታወቁ። ሚኒስትሯ ዛሬ ከሰዓት በሰጡት ጋዜጣዊ መግለጫ ላይ እንደተናገሩት የካቲት 25 2012 ዓ.ም ከቡርኪናፋሶ ወደ ኢትዮጵያ የመጣ ጃፓናዊ የኮሮናቫይረስ ተገኝቶበታል። የጤና ጥበቃ ሚኒስትሯ እንዳሉት ጃፓናዊ ትኩሳትና ማሳልን የመሳሰሉ የቫይረሱ ምልክቶችን የሚያሳይ ሲሆን በአሁኑ ሰዓት በለይቶ ማቆያ ውስጥ ይገኛል። ሳዑዲ አረቢያ ኢትዮጵያን ጨምሮ Read more
Caroline Bologna HuffPost LifeMarch 11, 2020, 7:54 PM EDT How rational is fear of the coronavirus? Yahoo News Video Scroll back up to restore default view. With coronavirus cases continuing to rise in more than 100 countries, the COVID-19 outbreak has been officially declared a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization. As many have pointed out, Read more
GENEVA (AP) — Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and inadequate government responses, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic but added that it’s not too late for countries to act. By reversing course and using the charged word “pandemic” that it previously shied away from, Read more
Dr Mintwab Bezabih1* and Dr Belachew Tesfa2 1. Introduction In 2011, Ethiopia began building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River in a place called Guba, 60 kilometres from Sudan mainly for the electric power generation. In addition to the electric power supply, GERD benefits the downstream countries mainly Sudan and Read more
የሱዳን ባለስልጣናት በጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሩ አብደላ ሐምዶክ ላይ ተፈጸመ በተባለው የግድያ ሙከራ ላይ ምርምራ ማድረግ መጀመራቸውን ገለጹ። የአገሪቱ መንግሥት መገናኛ ብዙሃን እንደዘገቡት ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሩ ወደ ጽህፈት ቤታቸው እየሄዱ በነበረበት ጊዜ ይጓዙበት የነበረውንና ያጀቧቸው ተሽከርካሪዎች ኢላማ በማድረግ በፈንጂና በተኩስ ጥቃት ተፈጽሞባቸዋል። ነገር ግን ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሩ ላይ ምንም ጉዳት እንዳልደረሰ የተዘገበ ሲሆን ሐምዶክ ከጥቃቱ በኋላ ደህና መሆናቸውን አሳውቀዋል። Read more
Bayelign Teshager, a 20-year-old from Ethiopia making his marathon debut, won the 35th Los Angeles Marathon Sunday morning, pulling away from Kenya’s John Langat in the final mile for a 2 hour, 8 minute, 25 second victory. Teshager, who turns 20 Monday, threw in a series of surges toward the bottom of San Vicente Boulevard Read more
Sudanese rescue teams and security forces circle damaged vehicles at the site of a bomb attack targeting the convoy of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who survived the attack unharmed (AFP Photo/ASHRAF SHAZLY) Khartoum (AFP) – Sudan’s post-uprising Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok escaped unharmed Monday as an assassination attempt using explosives targeted his convoy in the Read more
How Europeans Can Lead an Alternative Way Forward SWP Comment 2020/C 11, March 2020, 4 Pages doi:10.18449/2020C11 The conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over the distribution and use of the Nile water has entered a new phase. Questions about how and over what period of time the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Read more
Statement on the Arab League’s “Resolution” concerning the GERD Addis Ababa 06 March 2020 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia notes with dismay the “Resolution” of the Executive Council of the Arab League concerning the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issued on 05 March 2020. Ethiopia rejects the “Resolution” Read more
Reigning champion Birhanu Legese successfully defended his title while local star Suguru Osako got closer to securing the final spot on Japan’s Olympic team with a national-record-setting performance in the men’s race at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon on Sunday. Legese, of Ethiopia, crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 15 seconds in Read more
London (AFP) – Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele broke Mo Farah’s course record as he won the London half-marathon on Sunday in a time of one hour and 22 seconds. Bekele took 1min 18sec off the record set in 2019 by British distance great Farah, who missed this year’s edition with an achilles injury. Britain’s Christopher Thompson Read more
The head of the Catholic Church in Ethiopia,Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew was barred from leaving the main airport in neighbouring Eritrea to attend an engagement over the weekend. The church said Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew had been issued with a visa, which Ethiopians now get on arrival following a 2018 peace deal. But airport officials said their Read more
– Ethiopia has reportedly built an energy plant which converts waste to electricity – The country’s largest rubbish dump was used as the site for the plant which is built to provide Ethiopians with 30% of their household electricity needs – The project was made possible by the Ethiopian government in partnership with a consortium Read more
(Bloomberg) — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has perhaps the most thankless job in global public health. As director-general of the World Health Organization, the former Ethiopian health minister is racing against time to prevent a dangerous new coronavirus in China from precipitating a worldwide pandemic. Yet containing and unlocking the secrets of a novel virus that emerged in Wuhan, once a Read more
Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch is predicting the coronavirus “will ultimately not be containable” and, within a year, will infect somewhere between 40 and 70 percent of humanity, The Atlantic reports. But don’t be too alarmed. Many of those people, Lipsitch clarifies, won’t have severe illnesses or even show symptoms at all, which is already the case Read more
The Nile River and its tributaries have served as a lifeline for human civilization in the Nile River basin for centuries. Today, more than 300 million people from Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda rely on this river system as their primary source of freshwater. For many of Read more
Dutch-Ethiopian Sirak Asfaw, left, and art detective Arthur Brand pose with the Ethiopian crown at a high-security facility in the Netherlands in September last year (AFP Photo/Jan HENNOP) Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopia’s government on Thursday assumed custody of a priceless 18th-century crown that a former refugee had kept hidden in his apartment in the Read more
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is received as he arrives at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The United States will provide financial assistance to Ethiopia as it pursues political reforms, the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday during a visit by Read more
18 February 2020 Voice of America (Washington, DC) By Simon Marks U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the African Union chairman Tuesday in Addis Ababa at the end of a whirlwind Africa tour that included Senegal and Angola. Pompeo’s first official visit to Africa aims to strengthen commercial Read more
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The president and the prime minister of Portugal added their voices to a national outcry Monday over racist abuse aimed at a black FC Porto soccer player, Moussa Marega, who walked off the field after hearing monkey chants. Prime Minister Antonio Costa said the incident was “unacceptable” and urged police and Read more
Rwandan musician Kizito Mihigo, pictured speaking to the media after being arrested in April 2014 on charges of threatening state security (AFP Photo/STEPHANIE AGLIETTI) Rwandan musician Kizito Mihigo, pictured speaking to the media after being arrested in April 2014 on charges of threatening state security Mihigo, pictured on his release from Kigali’s Nyarugenge prison in Read more
Published on February 12, 2020 ABOUT THE SHARP POWER AND DEMOCRATIC RESILIENCE SERIES: As globalization deepens integration between democracies and autocracies, the compromising effects of sharp power—which impairs free expression, neutralizes independent institutions, and distorts the political environment—have grown apparent across crucial sectors of open societies. The Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience series is an Read more
