VOA News The United States aid agency has announced $97 million in emergency assistance for Ethiopia to help address the “ongoing humanitarian crisis resulting from the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon.” “The United States Government is helping Ethiopians cope Read More ...
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Washington Post IN THE latest chapter of Ethiopia’s escalating authoritarianism, young people, journalists and musicians have been the targets of the ruling regime’s quest to silence political dissent. For several weeks, students from the Oromo majority ethnic group have been Read More ...
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By AFP Nairobi (AFP) – At least 140 people have been killed in Ethiopia over the past two months in a crackdown on anti-government protests sparked by plans to expand the capital into farmland, Human Rights Watch said Friday. “Security Read More ...
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TRUST Author: Ambassador Amina Mohamed & Dr Tedros Adhanom Ambassador Amina Mohamed (right) and Dr Tedros Adhanom (left) sign an MOU in Moyale, Kenya. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look on, December 7, 2015. CREDIT: Read More ...
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TRUST Author: Ambassador Amina Mohamed & Dr Tedros Adhanom Ambassador Amina Mohamed (right) and Dr Tedros Adhanom (left) sign an MOU in Moyale, Kenya. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look on, December 7, 2015. CREDIT: Read More ...
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By James Jeffrey, Al Jazeera Health clinics such as this one in the town of Idaga Hamus, about 30 miles south of the border with Eritrea, aren’t yet inundated with malnourished children — but there are some, like this mother’s Read More ...
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A hand grenade attack killed two students and injured six in a university in southern Ethiopia, police said, the second such attack in the country in three weeks. An attacker or attackers hurled Read More ...
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A hand grenade attack killed two students and injured six in a university in southern Ethiopia, police said, the second such attack in the country in three weeks. An attacker or attackers hurled Read More ...
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By Tsegaye R. Ararssa When in mid April 2014 the government in Ethiopia announced its readiness to implement what it called the “Addis Abeba Integrated Regional Development Plan” (the “Master Plan” for short), which proposes to annex most of the city’s surrounding areas belonging to the National Regional State of Oromia, it provoked an immediate
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast ROME — It has been more than 30 years since that old rocker Bob Geldof launched the charity initiative Band Aid for famine in Ethiopia with the poignant tune, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Since then, it would seem from afar, Ethiopia has hovered on the edge of
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