Month: December 2019
- Africa
Special edition: Beyond education: helping girls believe in themselves
cover: Abebech Yetebarek, one the female teachers, training her students This Special Edition is available in our electronic magazine format. Please click here to download the pdf format. Etenesh Abera Bishoftu, December 09/2019 – Netsanet Alemayehu and Rediate Tibebu, both fifteen, are student trainees; and Abebech Yetebarek, one the female teachers, is a trainer. There is one common thing that…
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News: U.S., Ethiopian Defense Officials Meet at Pentagon
Performing the Duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. James H. Anderson hosts a bilateral meeting with Ethiopia’s Minister of Defense, His Excellency Minister Lemma Megersa, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 2019. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class James K. Lee) Addis Abeba, December 06/2019 – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for…
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Commentary: Dangerous interregnum: The anatomy of Ethiopia’s mismanaged transition
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a press conference on August 25/2019 in Addis Abeba. Ezekiel Gebissa, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 05/2019 – In his Selections from Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci famously wrote in 1930: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety…
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Exclusive: Ethiopia’s House Speaker slams Arab Parliament over statement on Nile water (See copy of the letter)
Addis Standard staff Addis Abeba, December 05/2019 – In a letter written on November 25/2019 and addressed to Mishaal bin Fahm Al-Salami, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Tagesse Chafo, Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR), said that it was “very unfortunate that the Arab Parliament chose to express its resolve to stand by Egypt’s historical rights on the…
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Exclusive: Egypt stalls latest talks on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
The Egyptian delegation blocked any progress in the meeting by tabling unreasonable, inequitable and unjust proposals and preconditions. “Egypt’s intransigence in maintaining its demands has blocked progress in this meeting.” Addis Standard staffs Addis Abeba, December 04/2019 – Egypt has once again stalled the ongoing talks on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a source…
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Opinion: Why Ethiopia needs a strong incumbent political party in the transition to democracy
On Sunday December 01 eight parties constituting the new Prosperity Party signed the document marking the unification of EPRDF Girmachew Alemu, For Addis Standard Between revolution and continuity Addis Abeba, December 03/2019 – Ethiopia is going through a political transition to democracy that began under the incumbent Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of four ethnic-based political groups…
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The Interview: “We think we will win a majority in Oromia and win significant seats in the federal parliament,” Dawud Ibsa
Born in 1952 in Abuna village, Horro Guduru District in the then Wollega province, present day western Oromia, Dawud Ibsa Ayana’s actual name was Firew Ibsa Ayana. Dawud started his political journey when he took part in the Ethiopian Student Movement in the early years of 1970s when he was a student at the then Haile Selassie I University (Present…
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News: Germany commits €352.5 m for Ethiopia
The joint letter of intent was signed in the presence of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Addis Abeba, December 02/2019 – Germany and Ethiopia have agreed to deepen their partnership and have opened a new chapter in their bilateral relationship, a statement from the German embassy in Addis Abeba said. During a bilateral meeting between the two countries Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s…
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