Year: 2020
- Africa
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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Analysis: Does it matter to know the “square one’’ of SARS-CoV-2 spillover?
By. Zelalem H. Mekuria & Filimon M. Haile Addis Abeba, June 01/2020 – Unprecedented in the history of mankind, the natural course of COVID-19 pandemic is being documented in real-time and that is not without its challenges. The constant barrage of misleading contents on social media and increasing tendencies of science articles making a narrow and singular interpretation of broad…
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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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