Month: May 2020
- Africa
News: Ethiopia tells UNSC it has no legal obligation to seek Egypt’s approval to fill the dam
Please click here to download the document Ethiopia submitted to the UNSC. Please click here to download the document Egypt submitted to the UNSC. By Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, May 18/2020 – In a letter signed by Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew and delivered to the UN Security Council,(UNSC), Ethiopia said it “does not have legal obligation” to seek…
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In-depth Analysis: Towards Tigray Statehood?
Debretsion G/Michael, President of Tigray Regional state, greeting a crowd of hundreds of thousands during the 45th founding anniversary of TPLF in Mekelle on February 11, 2020. Kjetil Tronvoll @KjetilTronvoll Addis Abeba, May 14/2020 – The postponement of the elections and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s proposal on how to solve the upcoming constitutional crisis in Ethiopia, has accentuated Tigrayan nationalism…
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Commentary: Making sense of Ethiopia’s constitutional moment
Partial view of members of the House of Federation (HoF). Image: HoF archive Yonatan T. Fessha, @YonatanFessha Zemelak Ayele @zemelak_a Solomon A. Dersso @SolomonADersso & Adem Abebe @AdamAbebe Addis Abeba, May 14/2020 – As students of Ethiopian constitutional law, we cannot remember a time as interesting as the last few weeks. The debate around the constitution has attracted even those…
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News: Despite denial by Ethiopia’s consul, number of coronavirus cases among Ethiopians in Lebanon reaches eight
Lebanese frontline healthcare providers disinfecting surfaces against COVID-19. Image: Anwar Amro/AFP Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan & Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, May 14/2020 – Despite denial from Ethiopia’s consulate in Beirut, Lebanon that there were no Ethiopians who tested positive for COVID-19, data posted on the official website of the Lebanese Ministry of Health currently lists that out of a total…
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Commentary: Ethiopia’s crisis induced opportunity to seize a historical constitutional moment
Chief Justice Meaza Ashenafi, President of the Supreme Court, is also the chairwoman of the Council of Constitutional Inquiry (CCI) Solomon A. Dersso (PhD) @SolomonADersso Addis Abeba, May 12/2020 – Depending on whether we seize the opportunity arising from it, this constitutional crisis could be a necessary trouble, a blessing in disguise, for Ethiopia. What determines whether a crisis leads…
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Analysis: Stranded uni students in Yirgalem sustain severe abuse by security forces as campus reneges on promises
Women students weren’t spared the wrath of the men in uniform when they converged on the Awada campus on March 26th Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan &Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, May 12/2020 – As many as fifty college students, including dozens of women, were beaten by baton wielding police, who also struck another woman student with a bullet,…
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Commentary: Transitioning from imported cases to community transmission: A strategy for public health security
A man wearing protective mask sits in a bus near Merkato, the busiest open market in Addis Abeba Yohannes Kinfu (PhD) Addis Abeba, May 12/2020 – Since the first novel Corona pandemic had emerged in China in late 2019 and spread rapidly around the world, the reaction and intensity to combat the disease had varied across nations. Some countries treated…
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