Month: November 2015
- Africa
Collapse of crop tests farming communities in Eastern Hararghe
Kalkidan Yibeltal Standing at the doorway of the mud-walled, tin-roofed office in Ordee Goba Farming Kebele in eastern Hararghe of the Oromia regional state, the development agent (DA) pointed at the crops – mainly sorghum and maize – inside the compound; a look of disappointment and helplessness is stamped all over his face. It needed no effort to notice…
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Sinkneh Eshetu /“Catch Your Thunder – Rendezvous with the End,”
Writer Sinkneh Eshetu was born in Konso, an area in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region known for its unique landscape and communal life. He was raised in the nearby towns of Jinka and Arba Minch. He did his first degree in Agriculture at Alemaya University; and his masters in Landscape Architecture in China. He has worked for the…
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The other woman
With all the negative media attention swirling around Hillary Clinton’s emails, the possibility of a criminal indictment, her slumping poll numbers and a potential challenge from Vice President Joe Biden, it’s easy to forget there is another woman running for President Tomas Mega She is Carly Fiorina. Her skillful performance in the first two televised Republican debates has her rising…
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UN in Addis Abeba to hoist Palestine flag during Solidarity Day
Two months after the 102nd meeting of the 69th General Assembly meeting, where a vote on the raising of flags by non-member observer States at the United Nations was passed, Palestine’s flag will be raised, for the first time, on November 27 at the UN campus in Addis Abeba, a UN press statement said. According to the statement, to mark…
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Pope Francis in Africa: Leadership and inspiration in the face of Climate Change
Achim Steiner A visit by Pope Francis to the UN Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi as part of his Africa tour will come only days before the beginning of the seminal COP21 climate conference in Paris. Speaking from the heart of Africa to the world, he is expected to again address climate change, an issue central to his brief tenure…
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Sweden donates US$ 16 million to drought affected Ethiopia
The government of Sweden said it will contribute 140 million SEK (16 million USD) for food aid to people “affected by the severe and ongoing drought in Ethiopia”, Swedish Embassy in Addis Abeba said. The contribution is made through a grant to the World Food Program (WFP). “Through this contribution more than 1.5 million people in the Somali region…
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USAID Inaugurates livestock feed manufacturing facility
Ethio-Feed PLC extends innovative livestock feed solution to Tigray Region The U.S. Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), today held a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch a new livestock feed manufacturing facility developed through USAID’s grant to Ethio-Feed PLC. The investment will enable suppliers, processors, cooperatives, exporters, financial and other service providers to access higher nutritional…
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Analysis – daring a long journey just to be across borders
The number of young Ethiopians trying to leave the country at any cost via the eastern part of Ethiopia shows no decline Kalkidan Yibeltal Harar- Inside the compound of the Harari Regional Police Commission’s Headquarters in eastern Ethiopia sit an assemblage of some one hundred young men and women waiting for buses to take them back to where…
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No ordinary year in Ethiopia; drought a ‘code red’
John Graham We cannot turn our backs on Ethiopia – we must learn from the region’s history books On the dusty plains outside Erer in Ethiopia’s east, the rotting carcasses of cows, goats, donkeys and camels bake under the hot African sun, fodder for hungry vultures and stealthy hyenas. Until recently 40-year-old Jama and his family called these lands home, and had done for…
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Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski travels to Uganda,Ethiopia
US Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski is traveling to Uganda a and Ethiopia on November 14 and 17, respectively, US State Department Office of the Spokesperson said in a statement. In Uganda, Malinowski will meet with government officials, opposition party leaders, journalists, and civil society leaders to discuss the country’s pre-electoral environment and civil society space…
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