Month: June 2020
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Covid-19 Ethiopia comprehensive situation report
Editor’s Note: This comprehensive report is compiled by Ethiopian Health Data, a website dedicated to track COVID-19 cases in Ethiopia and Africa. Please click here to download the pdf file of this comprehensive situation report. Background Addis Abeba, May 09/2020 – In late 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China causing a disease (COVID-19)…
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Viewpoint: Race and race matters: A personal reflection
“Certainly, it is sad truth that black esthetic bears witness to how African Americans have searched for an identity in an America that first enslaved them as property, and once that was over, continues to dispose their human dignity.” By Elizabeth W. Giorgis (PhD) Addis Abeba, June 04/2020 – As I was writing this, I was watching the news from…
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Opinion: Does Ethiopia really need democracy? Then it should draw resources from indigenous virtues
“Ethiopia is, once again, in a crossroads. There is a real possibility of heading to the usual authoritarian trajectory. “ By Mohammed Girma (PhD) @girma_mohammed Addis Abeba, June 04/2020 – I was once driving with my colleague in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. As I took a glance through the window, one massive billboard caught my attention. It was President…
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News: Rare protests in Tigray region remain on and off
In Hintalo Wajirat area, one of the protest areas, protesters accuse the regional government of neglecting the cultural needs of the communities. By Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, June 03/2020 – Residents of some towns in Ethiopia’s Tigray continued taking part in an on and off streets protests over the past two weeks accused the regional government of refusing to…
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News: Sudan asks UNSC to discourage Ethiopia from filling the GERD before comprehensive deal
“The construction reached 73.7%. We are on active work of installing the two turbines, conveyance systems, bottom outlets & raising the lower blocks. Revised work schedule is being delivered as planned,” Dr. Seleshi Bekele on May 27. Please click here to download the document Sudan submitted to the UNSC Addis Abeba, June 03/2020 -In a June 02 letter addressed to…
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Analysis: “Can anyone hear us?” Access to mental healthcare in Ethiopia during the covid-19 pandemic
Ethiopia does not have mental health first responders. There are a few shelters to protect survivors from subsequent violence, but the need is so great. By Maji Hailemariam, MSW, PhD @MajiHailemariam Addis Abeba, June 02/2020 – Bekele, who suffers from a mental illness, hails from a small rural town in the Gurage zone. He lives with his sister, her husband…
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Op-ed: Ethiopia must end culture of impunity to heal from decades of human rights violations
In what could betaken as a promising start, Federal Attorney General Adanech Abiebie said yesterday that her office has started its own investigation into the new Amnesty International report on “grave human rights violations.” Source: FBC By Haben Fecadu Addis Abeba, June 02/2020 – Tamara Dawit grew up in a family that loved to tell stories, but there was one…
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Commentary: The trinity of ‘patient Ethiopia’
A man wearing protective mask sits in a bus near Merkato, the busiest open market in Addis Abeba By Belete A. Desimmie (MD, PhD) @adbelete Addis Abeba, June 02/2020 – Today’s Ethiopia is suffering from three major ailments that are challenging its immune system rendering it ever more vulnerable. The trilemma metaphor provides a perfect framing for strategic thinking and…
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Commentary: How would the unelected assume state power constitutionally? The hard question the CCI/HOF need to address
Partial view of members of the House of Federation (HoF). Image: HoF archive By Wondwossen Demissie Kassa Addis Abeba, June 01/2020 – The country is waiting for the Council of Constitutional Inquiry (CCI) and House of Federation’s (HOF’s) decision on the consequence of the COVID-19 induced postponement of elections on the constitutional order. In an earlier article I have argued that…
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