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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
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
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
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
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
Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians have left from the Horn of Africa for Saudi Arabia in past years in rickety boats, seeking to reach the kingdom via war-torn Yemen, but many have perished as their boats have capsized Anuj Chopra September 11, 2020 ‘Living hell’: Ethiopians detained in Saudi call for help Saudi Arabia Using 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
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
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
ABOVE: Hardship: Birtukan Mekuanint, 23, says she was trapped and exploited after she went to work in Lebanon as a maid (AFP Photo/Solan Kolli) Addis Ababa (AFP) – After she flew to Lebanon in 2017 to work as a maid for a family of eight, Birtukan Mekuanint managed to call her own relatives in Ethiopia 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
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
Source: https://qz.com/ At a time when footballers have been urged to do more to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was striking to see three Africans who have graced the world stage speaking out. In a television discussion that has become swiftly infamous, two French doctors—one of them the head of an intensive 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
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
French health minister Olivier Veran (pictured March 6, 2020) warned that the use of ibuprofen and similar anti-inflammatory drugs could be “an aggravating factor” in COVID-19 infections (AFP Photo/Bertrand GUAY) Geneva (AFP) – The World Health Organization recommended Tuesday that people suffering COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after French officials warned that anti-inflammatory drugs could Read more
Scientists in Australia say they have identified how the body’s immune system fights the Covid-19 virus. Their research, published in Nature Medicine journal on Tuesday, shows people are recovering from the new virus like they would from the flu. Determining which immune cells are appearing should also help with vaccine development, experts say. Globally, authorities 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
India has confirmed nearly 40 cases of the novel coronavirus till now. What’s fuelling a wave of fear across the country, though, is the usual avalanche of fake news on WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. So much so that prime minister Narendra Modi had to publicly appeal last weekend to stay away from rumours and follow doctors’ advice. Quartz looked Read more
Yahoo UK Staff Yahoo News UK March 2, 2020, 7:49 PM EST “Never been seen before.” That’s the stark warning from the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the deadly coronavirus continues to spike outside of mainland China and spreads globally. Almost nine times as many cases were reported in a 24-hour period beyond China than 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
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin. He made clear he would not allow the traditional notion of mother and father to be subverted by what he called “parent number 1” and “parent number 2”. “As far as ‘parent Read more
By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – China’s coronavirus outbreak poses a “very grave threat for the rest of the world” and should be viewed as “Public Enemy Number 1”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to step up measures Read more
A Pakistani court has sentenced former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia for treason over his 2007 imposition of emergency rule. Such a verdict is a first in a country with a history of army rule. The military reacted angrily, saying legal process “seems to have been ignored”. The general seized power Read more
How the rule of law is working in Philippine MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine national police chief resigned on Monday after he faced allegations in a Senate hearing that he intervened as a provincial police chief in 2013 to prevent his officers from being prosecuted for allegedly selling a huge quantity of illegal Read more
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian lawmakers on Saturday revised election laws to pave the way for polls next year, but some opposition parties said the changes would make it more difficult for them to challenge the ruling coalition. One of the main amendments raised the number of signatures required to register a national political party Read more
