Month: June 2018
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Feature: The rally, the euphoria and the bang many of us took for firework
Mahlet Fasil, Etenesh Abera and Ephream Seleshi, Addis Standard’s team on the ground (This is their experience of what they saw on Saturday June 23 at the rally to support Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed) Addis Abeba, June 28/2018 – The emotions of the day started becoming near religious when, about fifty meters down the road from the palace, I heard…
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News: Ethiopian parliament passes amnesty bill into law
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, June 28/2018 – In its 32nd regular session today, Ethiopian parliament has passed a proposed amnesty bill into law. The bill, which is now a law, was presented to the parliament for consideration by the Law, Justice and Administrative Affairs Standing Committee. The law establishes board members drawn from five federal ministries and two individuals…
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OpEd: Torture and Ethiopia’s Culture of Impunity
Felix Horne Addis Abeba, June 26/2018 – Late one evening in 2015, local police arrested 28-year-old Abdi [not his real name] and over the next two weeks beat him every night. Prison guards routinely humiliated him – stripping him naked, tying a jerry can filled with water to his testicles and parading him in front of fellow prisoners. Sixteen…
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Breaking: House speaker Muferihat Kamil replaces Shiferaw Shigute as SEPDM chairman
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, June 25/2018 – Muferihat Kamil, Speaker of the House of People’s Representative, become the first female chairman of the Southern Ethiopian People’s Democratic Movement (SEPDM), a coalition party of the ruling EPRDF representing of the southern regional state. Muferihat election by the executive of the party during an emergency meeting today comes after Shiferaw Shigute, the…
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News: French Development Agency provides 18 million euros for urban and geothermal development in Ethiopia
Ambassador of France to Ethiopia and Mr Ignace Monkam-Daverat (File) Addis Abeba, June 21/2018 – A signing ceremony of two grants Agreements took place at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC) between Admasu Nebebe, Ethiopian State Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Frederic Bontems, Ambassador of France to Ethiopia and Mr Ignace Monkam-Daverat, the French Agency for Development…
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Opinion: Peace within and between Eritrea and Ethiopia
Lencho Leta Addis Abeba, June 21/2018 – The outbreak of war between Eritrea and Ethiopia in the concluding years of the twentieth century is a truly tragic development. It qualifies as one of the most outstanding failures of the generation that fought for justice in both Eritrea and Ethiopia under the previous regimes and paid heavy sacrifices. These failures would…
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Breaking: President Isaias announces Eritrea to dispatch delegation to Ethiopia
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, June 2018 – Eritrea’s president announced “today that Eritrea shall dispatch delegation to Addis Abeba to a constructive engagement with Ethiopia,” Estifanos Habtemariam, Eritrea’s Ambassador to Japan, said on twitter. President Isaias Afewerki made the remarks during the Martyrs Day celebrations today. “We will send a delegation to Addis Abeba to gauge current developments directly and…
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The Interview: NaMA is expected to be the guardian of a fully fledged Amhara Nationalism: Dr. Dessalegn Chanie
At 37, Dessalegn Chanie Dagnew (Ph.D.) is the President of the newly founded National Movement of Amhara (NaMA) party. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Hydrology & Water Resource Management at Bahir Dar University (BDU) and is the Vice Director of the Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies of BDU. He has received his…
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Opinion: Ethiopia’s move to cede Badme to Eritrea: a bargain chip for the Assab question?
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are that of the writers’ and do not reflect the editorial of Addis Standard. Yohannes Ayalew and Dejen Messele, for Addis Standard 1. The Ethio-Eritrea conflict: W(h)ither Badme ? The Ethio-Eritrea conflict marked the 20 year anniversary on May 2018 though it is in the sulk of no-peace-no war. (see…
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News: IOM to provide reintegration assistance for 32 Ethiopian migrants from Egypt
Addis Abeba, June 15/2018 – Following a visit by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to Egypt last weekend, 32 Ethiopian irregular migrants, who were detained in the country, were pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and flown back to Ethiopia on 11 June 2018. Upon arrival at the Addis Abeba Airport, the 32 returnees were welcomed by Dr. Aklilu Hailemichael,…
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