Year: 2020
- #COVID19Ethiopia
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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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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