Year: 2017
- Africa
Breaking: Federal government warns Somali regional state communication office against publishing inciting messages
Addis Abeba – Oct. 08/2017 – In an urgent statement released to the media this afternoon, the federal government communication affairs bureau issued a stern warning to the Somali regional state communication bureau to stop publishing and distributing inciting messages immediately. According to the statement, at such a time when the Oromia and Somali regional states were experiencing a fragile…
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Breaking News: Abadula Gemeda resigns as speaker of the federal parliament
Addis Abeba October 07/2017 – Two credible sources told AS that Abadula Gemeda, speaker of the Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives has resigned from his post. According to one source, Abadula has “submitted a resignation letter to the federal government in protest over recent political developments including the federal security handling of the ongoing violence in eastern Ethiopia”, which has…
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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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