Month: May 2018
- Africa
Breaking: Unidentified perpetrators kill Dangote cement Ethiopia country manager Deep Kamara, two Ethiopians
Addis Abeba May 16/2018 – Sources with the knowledge told Addis Standard that Deep Kamara, the country manager of Dangote Cement Ethiopia, and two more Ethiopians, Beakal Alelign, a secretary, and Tsegaye Gidey, a driver, were shot dead by unidentified men today. Beakal Alelign was a mother of three, the youngest of whom is only one year old. According to…
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News: Ethiopia denies reports that it participated in the US embassy opening celebrations in Jerusalem
Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba, May 16/2018 – Ethiopia’s ministry of foreign Affairs said despite media reports, its delegates did not participate in the opening celebrations of the US embassy in Jerusalem. In a statement given to state media this morning, Meles Alem, MoFA spokesperson, clarified that media reports indicating Ethiopia as one of the African countries which were planning to…
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Breaking: PM Abiy Ahmed tells his cabinet the government is investigating foreign bank accounts held by senior officials
Addis Standard staffs Addis Abeba, May 15/2015 – In a meeting with senior government officials including members of his cabinet, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the government was investigating foreign bank accounts held by senior government officials, a source who attended the meeting told Addis Standard. During the meeting held in his office today, the Prime Minister also criticized…
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News: Government rights commission breaks silence on displaced ethnic Amharas, says it dispatches team to investigate
Displaced members of ethnic Amharas currently sheltered in Bahir Dar city Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, May 15/2018 – Addisu G. Egziabher (PhD), Head of the Ethiopia Human Rights Commission, a government led rights commission, told state affliated media that the commission has dispatched a team to “investigate” the displacement of hundreds of ethnic Amharas from the Kemashe zone of the…
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News: Illicit financial flows transferred across Africa amount to a staggering loss of US$100 billion annually
Addis Abeba, May 15 /2018: Experts have called for combined forces to stem the illicit movement of money and capital from one country to another amid revelations that illicit financial flows from Africa were stifling the continent’s development progress. Speaking at a high-level discussion during the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Conference of Ministers, Abdalla Hamdok, the organization’s Deputy…
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Breaking: Formal talks begin between Ethiopia government and exile based opposition party ODF
Addis Abeba, May 13/2018 – A statement issued by the Oromo Democratic Front (ODF), an exile based opposition party, and was received by Addis Standard says formal talks between “high-level delegation of the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and a delegation of the Oromo Democratic Front (ODF)” took place from May 11 – 12, 2018. The statement,…
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Opinion: Lifetime miseries in Somali regional state and the need to tackle failed policies
Suldan A. Osman, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, May 11/2018 – Being one of its worst victims, Ethiopians in Somali Region erupted with jubilation as the ruthless Derg regime collapsed. The backdrop to the euphoria was a free air and a hope for the wonderland of a bright future. Sadly, for people in the Region, that outcome remains a…
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News- Ethiopia suspends license of largest gold mine in southern Ethiopia after at least two protesters were killed by regional security forces
Protest in Adola town on May 08/2018 Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba, May 09/2018 – Ethiopia’s Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoMPNG) said it cancelled recently renewed controversial license of MIDROC Gold, the largest gold mine in Ethiopia after protesters took to the streets for the last ten days. Today’s decision by the ministry followed the killing of two…
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News: Netizens demand Ethiopia to release Andargachew Tsige from its prison
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, May 08/2018 – Netizens have once again taken to online campaign with the hashtag #FreeAndargachewTsige to highlight the plights of Andargachew Tsige, a.k.a Andy Tsige, who is in an Ethiopian jail since 2014. Netizens are now demanding Ethiopia to release him unconditionally and also asking the UK government to put pressure on Ethiopia to secure…
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