Year: 2018
- Addis Abeba
Breaking the Silence: the Day Ahmedin Jebel, Ahmed Mustefa and myself were kidnapped
Abdulrezak Hussen (PhD), For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, July 04/2018 – It is a real story of innocents being criminalized, human rights obliterated, promises betrayed, justice ignored, peaceful protests brutally crushed and citizens blindly and indiscriminately beaten and more. It is a real story in a country where justice, fair-trial, freedom, human rights and dignity are revoked from its…
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Commentary: Legitimacy at home is legitimacy abroad
Mukerrem Miftah (Dr.,), For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, July 03/2018 – For the first time in decades, the Horn of Africa is set to experiment with a relatively unchained hope for regional stability and integration. No doubt, the commencement of any hope, and conversely any fear, in the region has been contingent upon the conditions within which Ethiopia finds…
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The Interview: “There are going to be people who are going to embrace this change and people who are going to resist it,” Mike Raynor, US Ambassador to Ethiopia
Ambassador Mike Raynor joined the State Department in 1988, and is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. He has been Director of the Bureau of Human Resources’ Office of Career Development and Assignments since September 2016. From August 2015 to August 2016, he served as Assistant Chief of Mission in Kabul, with…
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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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