Year: 2018
- Africa
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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Opinion: The Ethio-Eritrea Rapprochement: A Model for Regional Reconciliation?
PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki exchanging pleasantries with Debretsion Gebremichael, deputy president of Tigray regional state yesterday during yesterday’s reopening of Bure and Zalambesa border crossings Semungus H. Gebrehiwot, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September 12/2018 – A historic paradigm shift is underway in the Horn of Africa following the recent rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea that ended…
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News: Ethiopia tops global list of highest internal displacement in 2018
Displaced civilians from the Gedeo and West Guji zones of SNNPR and Oromia regional states, respectively Addis Abeba, September 12/2018 – Ethiopia has seen the highest number of people forced to flee their homes within their country in the first half of 2018, according to the IDMC report on global displacement out today. “It beggars belief that 1.4 million people…
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Breaking: Commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission resigns. “I am leaving for family reason” Belachew Mekuria
Belachew Mekuria (PhD), Commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), has resigned from his position effective yesterday September 11. Belachew was appointed to the position by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April this year during a reshuffle that saw Fitsum Aregaa, now PM Abiy’s chief of staff, leave his position as commissioner of EIC for the PM’s office. Belachew, who was…
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The Interview: Every society has to have some kind of moral compass to exist. Our moral compass has been lost: Berhanu Nega
Having acquired his PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research, in New York City, Berhanu Nega is an accomplished economist and author of a book ‘Yenetsanet Goh Siked’ (“The Dawn of Freedom”), which he wrote while serving time in prison as a result of the post 2005 contested-turned-deadly general elections in Ethiopia. But as someone who participated…
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