Month: October 2019
- Addis Abeba City Administration
Analysis: Living dirt poor in the midst of glamour. Why school feeding in Addis matters most
Editor’s Note: Addis Abeba City Administration has announced yesterday that it has started school feeding programs covering some 300, 000 students in public schools. The program by the City Administration is far from perfect and is potentially constrained by lack of adequate financing for the over 10, 000 women engaged in providing the school meals. But This article from our…
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News: Sixteen people, including children, killed in Ethiopia’s Afar region after armed attacks, several wounded
The attacks occurred in Afambo wereda, Obno Kebele, near the border with Djibouti in the east and Somali regional state in the south. Addis Abeba, October 14/2019 – Sixteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in Ethiopia’s Afar regional state after attacks by armed men in attack last week on Friday and Saturday, Kontie Moussa, (PhD), Afar People’s…
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Analysis: Addis Abeba sees another round of arbitrary arrest
The first mass arrest in the city since PM Abiy happend soon after this protest by city residents in September 2018. See details in the analysis below. Hayalnesh Gezahegn Addis Abeba, October 13/2019 – In what two eye witnesses near Addis Ketema preparatory school here in the capital Addis Abeba said was a “random arrest”, three young men were whisked away…
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News: PM Abiy Ahmed wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019
Full statement from The Nobel Prize Committee Addis Abeba, Oct. 11/2019 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea. The prize is also…
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News: PM Abiy’s signature Park inaugurates today
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba Oct. 9/2019 – The Unity Park sprawling 20 hectares inside the national palace in Addis Abeba is to be inaugurated today October 9th, 2019 in the presence of heads of states and government from IGAD member states who have been arriving as of this morning at Bole International Airport. So far, Sudan’s newly elected Prime Minister…
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News: NEBE hosting international conference on elections, election stakeholders
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, Oct. 09/2019 – National Elections and the Roles of Stakeholders is the title of the international conference that focuses on constructive cooperation with stakeholders such as political parties, the media and civil society being held by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia. The conference opened on the morning of the 8th of October, 2019 by the FDRE…
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Analysis: University-industry linkages in Ethiopia: The way forward
many world-class universities around the world have transitioned from talking about university-industry linkages to what is referred to entrepreneurial universities Note on the article: [1] Hassen Hussein, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, October 07/2019 – Over the last two decades, Ethiopia has made a great stride in expanding tertiary education (De Beer, Armstrong, Oguamanam, & Schonwetter, 2014). This notable and…
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News: Ethiopia denounces Egypt’s latest move on dam as disruptive, pledges to continue with constructive talks
The construction site of the multi-billion dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Picture taken in June 2017. Addis Abeba, October 06/2019 – A statement issued by Ethiopia following trilateral talked between the Water Affairs Ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan which took place in Khartoum on 04 and 05 October 2019, denounced Egypt’s latest move to invite a third into…
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