Year: 2016

  • Africa

    Living dirt poor in the midst of glamour

    Kalkidan Yibeltal The latest report assessing Ethiopia’s progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) released in October 2015 commended Ethiopia for being on track to attain five of the eight targets while achieving its target of reducing child mortality by two thirds ahead of time.   However the progress report, the fifth since the MDG was first announced in…

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  • Editorial: Ethiopia should stop killing, maiming and incarcerating its people’s question

    It is happening again, sadly. The government in Ethiopia is back to its signature of killing, maiming and jailing its own people because they are exercising their chance of rejecting state excesses using the only means available: taking to the streets to protest. Ethiopia is a country that has effectively obliterated several channels that normally help foster a healthy communication…

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  • Africa

    Why Oromo Protests isn’t just a protest against a ‘Master Plan’?

    In mid-April 2014 senior officials from the Oromiya Special Zone were the first ones to have publically resisted the Addis Abeba and Surrounding Oromiya Special Zone Integrated Development Plan (AASOSZIDP), popularly known by its misnomer ‘Master Plan’. Subsequently hundreds of thousands of university students and residents in various cities of the Oromiya Regional State took to the streets to protest…

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  • Africa

    Lost lions discovered in Ethiopia

    Born Free-supported expedition discovers lions living in remote area of Africa   Wildlife conservationists have confirmed for the first time that lions are living in a remote national park in Ethiopia, following a recent expedition supported by Born Free. “The amazing discovery was made after an expedition into the heart of Alatash National Park in North West Ethiopia, on the…

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  • Africa

    US announces $97 million in additional food assistance for Ethiopia

    U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Gayle Smith announced an additional $97 million in emergency assistance for Ethiopia today, to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis resulting from the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon.   According to a press statement from the US Embassy in Addis Abeba, the additional contribution includes more than 176,000 metric tons of food to…

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  • Africa

    #OromoProtests: the US remains vigilant, requests “transparent and shared” investigation

    Kalkidan Yibeltal   Gayle E. Smith, Chief Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said the US continued to be vigilant over the recent protest and subsequent violent crackdown in Oromiya regional state, the largest of Ethiopia’s nine states.   Speaking at a press briefing in the sidelines of the 26th AU heads of state summit this…

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  • Africa

    Breaking: At least seven people die in Gambella prison attack

    At least seven people were killed yesterday in Gambella town, south of Ethiopia, during an attempted prison break. Eye witnesses told Addis Standard that a fierce clash between the Nuer and Anywaa ethnic groups also left scores wounded when hundreds of Nuers attacked a prison called Gambella regional state correctional facility and located in an area locally known as “4…

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  • Africa

    Inequality leading cause of conflict in Africa – ECA Chief

    The Economic Commission for Africa’s Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes has called on Africa’s leaders to tackle economic, social and political inequality, which he stressed, is a leading cause of conflict in Africa. In his address to the 28th Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council this week, Mr. Lopes said that “huge differences in the distribution and exercise of political…

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  • Op-Ed – Land: the perpetual flashpoint of Ethiopia’s political crisis

    #OromoProtests Special coverage   Endalk Chala   It is important to situate the recent Oromo students’ protest within the historical context of students’ dissent in Ethiopia. The wave of protest that swept through Oromiya, Ethiopia’s biggest and populous regional state, bears a striking resemblance to the 1960s Ethiopian students’ protest, which culminated into the 1974 revolution that brought down Africa’s…

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  • Africa

    Exclusive: An optimist until proven wrong

    Ambassador Greg Dorey has just finished a four year term as the UK’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti, his second ambassadorial posting after Hungary. While in Ethiopia Ambassador Dorey was also his country’s envoy to the African Union (AU) and to the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). A few days before his departure to the UK, Ambassador Dorey…

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