Month: September 2018
- Africa
News: United States Provides Back-to-School Materials for 147,000 displaced children
Addis Abeba, Sep. 256/2018 – The U.S. Government has provided new school materials for 147,000 displaced children in Oromia, Somali, and SNNPR regional states. Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), this effort is aimed at protecting vulnerable children’s rights to education following internal conflicts that have displaced approximately 2 million people in Ethiopia. USAID and the Ministry…
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Analysis: Democratic transition in Abiy’s Ethiopia: managing the bad, the good and the troubling
PM Abiy Ahmed sitting relaxed at the ODP conference in Jimma G. Teressa, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September 25/2018 – The power relationship within the four-member ruling coalition party—the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)-which has ruled Ethiopia autocratically for 27 years, has been irreversibly changed. The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is no longer the kingmaker after suffering…
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News: Arrests perplex Addis Abeba residents as city police say it is conducting crackdown on rising crime
Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba, September 24/2018 – Addis Abeba residents are expressing their shocks and frustrations on what they said was a “mass arrest” of the city’s youth by the police without due court proceeds over the last few days. The Addis Abeba city police on its part said it was conducting a crackdown on rising crimes in the city…
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Op:ED: The privatization of violence: Why chaos is making a comeback in Abiy’s Ethiopia
Zecharias Zelalem Addis Abeba, September 21/2018 – Monday September 17, Addis Abeba’s residents took to the streets to denounce a spate of violence that shocked the country the weekend before. A large crowd had gathered just outside the headquarters of state broadcaster Ethiopian Television as well as the city’s center Mesqel Square. Loud and vociferous, demonstrators managed to attract enough…
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News: ODP concludes conference, elects nine crucial members of its executive committee. See who is who
The nine members of ODP/EPRDF EC AS staffs Addis Abeba, September 21/2018 – The just completed 9th organizational conference of the newly renamed Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) has elected nine members of its executive committee, who will also be also part of EPRDF’s Executive Committee. Accordingly the following nine members are elected as the new ODP EC members: PM…
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News: Ethiopia begins peace talks with ONLF
Addis Abeba, September 18/2018 – Ethiopian officials led by Ahmed Shide, Federal communication minister & Chairman of the Somali People’s Democratic Party (SPDP), and representatives of the the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) led by its Chairman Admiral Mohamed Omar have discussed “modalities of peace talks in Asmara [Eritrea] today,” according to Yemane G. Meskel, Eritrea’s Information Minister. #Ethiopia:…
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Full text of the Ethio-Eritrea agreement signed in Jeddah
Agreement on Peace, Friendship and Comprehensive Cooperation Between the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea, hereinafter referred to as the Two Parties; Considering the close bonds of geography, history, culture and religion between the two countries and their peoples; Respecting each other’s independence, sovereignty…
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News: More than twenty three killed in a spate of mob attack in Burayu. Thousands displaced
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, September 2018 – The number of civilians killed in in Burayu in a spate of day & night organized attacks has reached at least twenty three according to the Oromia region police commission Commissioner General Alemayehu Ejigu. The number could increase, he said. The attacks, which happened in several places in and around Burayu, 19 Km…
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Analysis: The Rise of Abiy Ahmed and the Janus-Faced Nature of “Abiymania”
Messay Kebede, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September 14/2018 – Ethiopians have obviously a manifest difficulty in understanding rationally both the rise of Dr. Abiy Ahmed to premiership and his implementation of far-reaching changes. Here is a man who comes from the ranks of the coalition of political parties known as the EPRDF and whose defining feature is that it…
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News: PM Abiy, police commissioner call for calm amid sporadic scuffles, confrontations and intense standoffs in Addis Abeba
A video sent to Addis Standard yesterday by an eye witness who was at the scene near St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College shows a group of young people waiving the unofficial green, yellow and red flag and shouting “this is the flag” while a voice in the background indicates of the use of “teargas.” Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba,…
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