Year: 2016
- Africa
Analysis – Why Ethiopia’s freewheeling regime does need a State of Emergency?
Zelalem Kibret, For Addis Standard Online On October 08, 2016 Ethiopia declared a State of Emergency in which more than half of the constitutionally guaranteed rights were more or less suspended. Ethiopia’s declaration of a State of Emergency (SoE) may shock some in the west. Because, the Ethiopia many portrayed is ‘the oasis of tranquility’, ‘the island of stability’…
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News: Battered by persistent public protests, Ethiopia forms new government
Nov. 01, 2016, Addis Abeba – Forced by persistence public protests, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has today dismantled the previous government and formed a formed a new one by announcing a major reshuffle of his cabinet ministers only a year after they were sworn in. Accordingly, the House of People’s Representatives (HPR), whose 547 seats are entirely controlled by…
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US Election: And the winner is?
“One of Mr. Lichtman’s “Keys to the White House” is the charisma of both the incumbent and challenging party’s candidate. Mr. Trump has changed and defied the rules of conventional Presidential politics but remains disliked by many. Mrs. Clinton, never charismatic, is also disliked. Perhaps Mr. Licthman could add another key to his winning formula: who is disliked the least”,…
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New Report: Agricultural growth not reaching its poverty-reducing potential in East, Southern Africa
Oct. 31, 2016 – The agricultural sector in East and Southern Africa is transforming due to increased productivity as more land is being cultivated but agricultural growth has not always led to poverty reduction; many small farmers in the region continue to live in poverty while struggling to own land and access credit, warns a new report presented in Nairobi…
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Amidst growing crackdown USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, & Humanitarian Assistance visits Ethiopia
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, R. David Harden, is visiting Ethiopia As of yesterday, the US Embassy said in a statement. Harden’s visit, which will last until Oct. 23, comes amidst growing intensive crackdown on dissident in Ethiopia following the declaration of State of Emergency for six months.…
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News: Ethiopia’s State of Emergency Command Post claims sweeping success in just three days
Oct. 20, 2016 – In a statement it released yesterday, the Command Post leading Ethiopia’s recently enacted State of Emergency claimed a sweeping success in restoring law and order in different parts of the country within the last three days alone. Accordingly the statement claimed based on article 31 of the State of Emergency, 93 individuals in north Gonder of…
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Opinion – Sharon Gray was killed to frame-up legitimate protests
The regime owes an explanation and remedy under ‘International State Responsibility’ Clause Henok Gebissa Last week, an American national was killed in Ethiopia while she was traveling in a van in Holeta town, a few kilometers west of the capital Addis Abeba. Sharon Gray, a postdoctoral researcher at plant biology department of the University of California at Davis, was killed…
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel due in Ethiopia “to inaugurate German-built AU Peace and Security Building”
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is due in Ethiopia tomorrow “to inaugurate the new Julius Nyerere Peace and Security Building on the campus of the African Union,” a statement from the German Embassy in Addis Abeba said. The Chancellor’s trip is part of her Africa tour that includes Mali and Niger. The statement clearly wanted…
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Breaking: Amidst intensive public protests Ethiopia declares state of emergency
A ministerial cabinet meeting of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) government, chaired by Prime Minister Hailemariam, has declared a state of emergency throughout the country effective as of yesterday Oct. 08, 2016. The decision came after a daylong emergency meeting of the cabinet of PM Hailemariam. The first since the coming into power 25 years ago of…
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Irreecha – The colors, the identity and the pride of Oromo nation
The Oromo nation is East Africa’s largest ethnic group for its cultural, spiritual and social values. In Ethiopia, home to the majority of East African Oromo, the main celebration of Irreecha in October coincides with the end of the summer rainy season. In a ceremony held every year at Hora Harsadii (Lake Hora ) in Bishoftu town, 45Km south east…
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