Year: 2019
- Africa
News: Commercial Bank’s digital payment channels drive airfare worth close to ETB 260 M
Addis Abeba, November 06/2019 – The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has facilitated the sale of Ethiopian Airlines e-tickets worth nearly ETB 260 Million (US$8.7 million) within ten months in 2019 fiscal year through its digital payment channels. During the period, 67,480 e-tickets were sold using CBE’s digital payment channels including its CBE Birr App and online bookings at branches…
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Special Edition: The role and relevance of religion in Ethiopia’s current conflicts
Terje Østebø, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, November 06/2029 – Ethiopia has always been celebrated as a unique case of peaceful religious inter-relations. This has recently been distorted by what seems like a surge of religious violence. There have been reports – confirmed and unconfirmed – about religious-based casualties, attacks on Christians and Muslims, churches burnt, mosques destroyed, and people…
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News: U.S. trains Ethiopian law enforcement agencies in Counterproliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Participants from the Government of Ethiopia and trainers from U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Addis Abeba, November 01/2019: The United States Government, through the US Department of Defense (DoD) – Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) International Counterproliferation Program (ICP), in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Regional Security Office (RSO), and…
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News: Amhara region Supreme Court rules high level corruption suspects should begin to defend case
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, November 01/2019 – Amhara regional state Supreme Court ruled this morning that defendants Bereket Simon and Tadesse Kassa should begin presenting defense statements against prosecutor’s high-level corruption charges. The two former high level government and party owned conglomerate officials respectively, were charged on suspicion of embezzling more than 2.2 billion birr in their roles at Tiret…
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News: Ex-Somali region president pleads not guilty to all charges
Former Somali regional state president Abdi Muhamud Omer, a.k.a, Abdi Iley (center) as pictured at the federal high court premises on February 06/2019 Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, October 30/2019 – At hearing which resumed today at the federal high court Lideta Branch, 4th criminal bench, Abdi Muhamud Omer a.k.a Abdi Iley, ex-president of Somali regional state, pleaded not guilty to…
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News: Maternal,newborn health improves in rural Ethiopia but inequities still exist
Berhan Zebraruk in the health post at Dugem village, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Picture: UNICEF Ethiopia Addis Abeba, October 29/2019 – Community-based health programs in parts of rural Ethiopia, Nigeria, and India were successful in improving health care for mothers and newborns, but inequities still exist, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “Our findings have…
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Analysis: Tragedy struck Ethiopia, again. “We are dealing with a different scenario”
One of the mourners at the funeral in Sebeta town of the two men from the Gamo community, a community subjected to similar violence twice in a span of one year. Many are asking “why?” Hayalnesh Gezahegn and Zecharias Zelalem (Additional reporting from Bileh Jelan) Addis Abeba, October 28/2019 – “I was on my way to my father’s flour mill…
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