Month: May 2020
- #COVID19Ethiopia
Op-ed: Covid-19 and patient safety
Ethiopia stepping up readiness for coronavirus disease outbreak. WHO/February 2020 Sosena Kebede, MD, MPH “The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm” (Adopted from Hippocratic corpus- a collection of medical works associated with Hippocrates and his teaching) Addis Abeba, May 29/2020 – This simple statement that describes…
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News: OLF,OFC urge gov’t to take report by Amnesty seriously; heed recommendations to reverse troubling human rights abuse record
In a report released today, Amnesty International said “Ethiopian security forces committed horrendous human rights violations including burning homes to the ground, extrajudicial executions, rape, arbitrary arrests and detentions, sometimes of entire families, in response to attacks by armed groups and inter-communal violence in Amhara and Oromia.” Graphic design: Amnesty International Addis Abeba, May 29/2020 – In a joint statement…
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Op-Ed: To heal, Ethiopia needs to confront its violent past
“Abiy continues to focus on reconciliation as his preferred approach for dealing with the country’s past.” By Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader Addis Abeba, May 27/2020 – “I want to move on and feel a part of Abiy’s Ethiopia. I want justice and a chance to get better myself,” a survivor of torture told a colleague of mine last year. “But I…
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Analysis: Ethiopia’s response to COVID-19
House-to-house health checkups by health extension workers in Dire Dawa Administration. April 2020 By Arkebe Oqubay Addis Abeba, May 27/2020 –Africa Day this week is remembered at a time when the world faces an unprecedented crisis. Africa is not immune and has seen over 110,000 cases of COVID-19 and 3,300 deaths. To the surprise of many, African governments have taken…
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Op-Ed: Beyond the constitutional debate: unpacking the political conundrum
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at a meeting with representatives of opposition parties during which the government presented four options in the wake of Ethiopia’s deferred election. April 29/2020 Addis Abeba, May 25/2020 – The Ethiopian constitution drove more interest, analysis and scrutiny in the past month than it had since its promulgation. Politicians and scholars have discussed and debated on…
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AS Investigates: A decade ago Ethiopian diplomats siphoned $640,000 from maids in Lebanon to pay off a US based lobby firm. What happened next?
(Right) Ambassador Tekleab Kebede at an event related to the Addis Abeba Diaspora Mall project in 2016, and (Left) Ambassador Nega Tsegaye, at his office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Layers of documents received by Addis Standard implicate both men as being directly involved in the controversial money transfer 11 years ago. Ambassador Tekleab is retired from diplomacy and…
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Commentary: The 2015 Declaration of Principles is not a treaty and Ethiopia does not have obligations therefrom
By Dejen Yemane Messele @MesseleDejen Addis Abeba, May 21/2020 – In its 01 May 2020 dated note verbale submitted to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Egypt appealed that Ethiopia has an international legal obligation not to impound waters and fill its GERD reservoir without concluding a comprehensive agreement on the filling and operation of the GERD. The verbatim of…
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News: 66 #COVID19 cases in Addis Abeba connected to a police station as total number rises to 389
Dr. Eba Abate, (left) & Dr. Lia Tadesse (center) gave the joint presser today. Image: Archive By Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb Addis Abeba, May 20/2020 – In a joint presser given by the Ministry of Health and Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Dr. Liya Tadesse and Dr. Eba Abate, minister and director general respectively of the ministry and EPHI revealed that…
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Commentary: The Constitution should be interpreted, if at all, to re-constitute, co-govern & co-conduct a post-COVID-19 national election: IOLA
Chief Justice Meaza Ashenafi, President of the Supreme Court, is also the chairwoman of the Council of Constitutional Inquiry (CCI), at the Council’s hearing on May 18/2020 Dr. Henok Gabisa @henokgabisa Dr. Kebene Wodajo @kebenewodajo &Israel Gobana @Israelgobena Addis Abeba, May 18/2020 – Decades of quests for effective self-determination, democracy and equality in Ethiopia run into a new dynamic in…
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