Ethiopia since the two decades has been executing a number of programs in unprecedented and unwavering manner to improve the health sector; expand the coverage and make sure that all individuals have access to affordable healthcare services. Giving due emphasis to this, it has also been working untiringly to turn the commitment into tangible actions. […]
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Ethiopia’s leather and leather products await a rosy future. The country has been facing different challenges along with developing the sector for the past decades. However, the government has now come up with new strategies and policy measures to activate the sector. According to the Central Statistics Agency (CSA), Ethiopia is generously endowed with livestock […]
Researchers argue that although tremendous efforts in financing and coverage of malaria control have been made, the disease has continued to be public health threat not only in Ethiopia but also at global level. Hence, assessing the entomological nature of Anopheles mosquitoes; species composition, longevity, behavior and infectivity rates among others are highly essential. According […]
Cape Town — Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela in the country’s neighbouring Amhara region, Reuters reports. The town’s rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage site. Lalibela is also a holy site for millions of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Reuters is quoting two eye-witnesses as saying that […]
The new UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ended a six-day mission to Ethiopia with a fresh push to get badly needed food and other supplies into the embattled Tigray region. “We need to change the circumstances that have led to the slow movement of aid – we need the conflict to stop”, Martin Griffiths, who also […]
The Ethiopian government has suspended the activities of three foreign humanitarian organisations which have been working in the restive northern Tigray region. Ethiopia’s Agency for Civil Society Organisations on Wednesday said that it had identified rule violations by the three aid groups namely Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Maktoume Foundation, […]
U.S. Agency for International Development head Samantha Power is set to meet Wednesday with officials in Ethiopia as the United States urges the government to allow clear access for humanitarian aid to the Tigray region. Power on Tuesday met with refugees in Sudan who have fled Tigray, and she reiterated the position of the United […]
A crucial trade route which links landlocked Ethiopia to the sea port of Djibouti has resumed operations after days of a blockade by protesters from the Somali region. The railway was closed came after a large number of Afar regional militia crossed borders to Somali and carried out deadly attacks. Somali youths retaliated by blocking […]
Addis Abeba — The Federal High court Lideta branch anti- terrorism and constitutional 2nd bench today has today sentenced on the three defendants accused of having involvement in the assassination of Hachalu Hundesa. While Tilahun Yami, the first defendant on the file who was found guilty of violating anti-terrorisom proclamation 1176/2012 Article 3. was sentenced […]
Nairobi — A Sudanese official says local authorities in Kassala province have found around 50 bodies, apparently people fleeing the war in neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region, floating in the river between the countries over the past week, some with gunshot wounds or their hands bound. The official said Monday a forensic investigation is needed to […]
When Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2019, I congratulated him in a public US and Africa dialogue forum. I thought he deserved the prize, given what he had done. In particular he showed a calm and responsible interest in listening to all community grievances to avoid outbursts of […]
Addis Abeba — Ahead of the planned visit by Samantha Power, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, the US has announced additional $149 million to support the humanitarian response in Tigray state, where the UN said more than 90% of the population are in need of emergency food assistance. The latest announcement ahead […]
Location of GERD on the Nile River Diplomatic efforts to resolve the long-simmering dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over Ethiopia’s great dam on the Blue Nile now seem to be stuck. The matter had been batted to the United Nations Security Council again this month, only to be sent back to the African Union […]
On late Sunday, due to bad weather at and around Bole International Airport, mainly due to cloud, aircrafts were forced to divert flights to nearby airports for short period of time. For safety reasons, flights to Addis were temporarily diverted to alternative airports and the landing back to the original destination after the weather improves, […]
ADDIS ABABA-Sudan continues its stubborn aggression inside the Ethiopian territory, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) Spokesperson Ambassador Dina Mufti said. During his weekly press briefing held yesterday, Amb. Dina said that Sudan has continued roads and bridge constructions further to settling its army inside the Ethiopian territory. As to him, Sudan has been […]
ADDIS ABABA- Although the plane crashed yesterday was due to bad weather condition impacted with a hill side, further investigation is underway, said the Ministry of Transport’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) in briefing Journalists yesterday. The AAIB Head Colonel Amdiye Ayalew said that the crash of Cessna Caravan 208B Airplane owned by the Abyssinian […]
Kenya is seeking the United Nations’ intervention to prevent an influx of refugees and weapons into the country due to the ongoing war in Ethiopia. Chief of Defence Forces General Robert Kibochi said in an interview Wednesday that something needs to be done urgently as the war in the Northern Tigray region of Ethiopia escalates. […]
Addis Abeba — The federal Attorney General charged Lieutenant General Tadesse Worede, General Gebre Tsadkan Gebre Tensae and 73 other people of attempting to overthrow the federal government via a coup in collaboration with Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a group designated terrorist by House of People’s Representatives (HoPR). The brief statement explained that the […]