Month: September 2017
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Entertainment news: Hub of Africa Fashion Addis Week returns
Addis Abeba, September 29/2017 – The Hub of Africa Fashion Addis Week (HAFW), with the support of Vogue Italia /Talents, announced its sixth annual international fashion week to be held between October 5th and 8th 2017 here in the capital Addis Abeba. “This year’s two-day runway events will take place at the Addis Abeba Exhibition Center. Panel discussions, master classes, presentations…
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Editorial – Ethiopia is grappling with heightened risk of state collapse, it is time for orderly transition
Thousands of internally displaced Oromos from the recent conflict in eastern Ethiopia remain in temporary shelters Addis Abeba, September 27/2017 – Ethiopia is fast descending into turmoil as the result of incessant state-sanctioned violence and repression. Popular demands that precipitated a three year-long protest, which started in Oromia in 2014 and then spread to the Amhara and other regions, remain…
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Commentary: Ethiopia’s experiment with federalism: Eyeing the federalism to come
The official narrative and the federalism to come Tsegaye R Ararssa, Special to Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September 20/2017 – In this series of reflections, I touched upon the major stages in the evolution of the Ethiopian experiment with federalism. I highlighted the range of stories that one could tell about the federal experiment in the course of the contestations…
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News: rights group calls on Ethiopia to “exercise restraint” at upcoming Irreecha festival
“International Inquiry Needed into Deaths at 2016 Event” HRW Nairobi, September 19/2017 – Ethiopian government and security officials should act with restraint and take concrete steps to prevent injuries and deaths at this year’s Irreecha festival on October 1, 2017, Human Rights Watch said in a report and video released today. Many people, likely hundreds, died in a stampede…
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Commentary: An OPDO choice: Cut the Gordian Knot or let the people go
Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September 15/2007 – In his book, Moral Man and Immoral Society, Reinhold Niebuhr, the influential American theologian and ethicist, discusses the difficulty of achieving social justice through moral and rational means. Following Thomas Hobbes, Niebuhr argues that individual humans, suffering from the anxiety of knowing the finiteness of life, tend to…
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Pictorial: Garbage collapse at Rappi landfill (Qoshe) kills a father of six
Compiled by Samuel Bogale Addis Abeba, September 15/2017 – On September 14, at around 11:00 am local time, one person was killed buried under a pile of garbage that a collapsed on him. According to the weekly Addis Fortune, the victim was “Kassahun Fekade, married and a father of six children.” Kassahun was searching for valuables out of dumped…
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Analysis: Rising death toll, displacement and protests in east, south and south east Ethiopia. What lies beneath?
Thousands of Oromo are displaced from their homes in eastern Ethiopia Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba, September 13/2017 – Increasing numbers of civilian casualties due to military actions in parts of east, south and south east Ethiopia over the last weeks has now led to fresh protests, more deaths and displacements in several places in eastern Ethiopia. On the other hand,…
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Commentary: An OPDO Conundrum: The indissoluble bond and organizational bifurcation
Both Lemma Megerssa, left, and Aba Dula, have taken to the practice of speaking bold to their constituency. Will they deliver? Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September12/2017 – The Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO) is the most enigmatic actor among Oromo political parties. Unlike Oromo parties who emerged out of the Oromo national moment, the OPDO was created by…
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News: “Local government failing us” say residents frustrated with killings in Moyale as border conflicts increase
Addis Standard staffs Addis Abeba, September 08/2017 – Residents of Ethiopia’s Moyale town, 795 km south of Addis Abeba, in Guji zone, Borena, say both local and regional government officials have “failed us repeatedly” in the face of renewed border incursions followed by attacks by what they described were members of the “Liyu Police”, a special paramilitary force operating…
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News: Fire at biggest stadium construction site in Ethiopia kills seven, severely injures about a dozen; news kept secret
Families of the deceased were offered just 15,000 Birr (about US$640) as compensation while the injured have received medical treatments only Samuel Bogale Addis Abeba, September 5/2017 – A fire that engulfed workers’ dormitory at the construction site of Adey Abeba Stadium, the biggest stadium Ethiopia is constructing, has claimed the lives of seven people so far while…
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