Year: 2020
- Africa
News: Members of federal police assigned as Jawar Mohammed’s security resign following recall by federal police
Jawar Mohammed greeting his supporters who came to his residence after he announced that his security detail were told to leave their post in the middle of the night in October 2019. Addis Standard staffs Addis Standard, February 08/2020 – All four members of the federal police who were assigned by the government as security detail for Jawar Mohammed have…
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News: Two people killed after midnight police shooting in Addis Abeba
Families mourn the death of one of the victims identified as Michas Thomas. Picture: social media Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, February 05/2020- Two civilians were killed following a police shooting at around midnight last night in Addis Abeba, at an area commonly known as 22 mazoria, behind St Gabriel hospital. One of he two victims is identified as Michias Thomas,…
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Commentary: Negotiating tripartite treaty on GERD: flaws and overhauls
Dejen Yemane Messele, For Addis Standard Addis Standard, February 05/2020 – Despite persistent skepticism and resistances, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan are on a fast-track negotiation to sign a comprehensive agreement regulating the filling and operation of the GERD. The prospective agreement would ultimately be a treaty whose procedures and subsequent applications are to be regulated by the rules of international…
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Opinion: Ethiopia and the Nile: Sacrificial lamb for the “Deal of the Century”?
Alula Alemayehu, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, February 03/2020 – Tuesday, January 28, 2020. This date will mark an important event in the annals of history when Ethiopia was unjustly coerced by the administration of Donald Trump and his son-in-law to accept the unacceptable and concede its sovereign right on the Nile to Egypt. On Tuesday, 28 January 2020, President…
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News: OFC says Jawar Mohammed is Ethiopian as Electoral Board demands citizenship proof for 2nd time
Addis Abeba, February 01/2020 – Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) executive member Tiruneh Gemta said Jawar Mohammed, who recently joined OFC, is an Ethiopian citizen. Tiruneh said this following a letter, the second of its type, sent to OFC by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) demanding the party to present proof of Jawar’s Ethiopian citizenship status. Jawar Mohammed, who…
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News: Joint appeal seeks $1 bn to address humanitarian needs of 7 m Ethiopians in 2020
Pastoralists moved to temporary sites close to permanent water point, as drought affected Ethiopia Somali region. September 2019. Addis Abeba, 29 January 2020: The 2020 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) was officially released yesterday, laying out prioritized multi-sector humanitarian needs in Ethiopia for the year 2020. The annual joint Government and humanitarian partners’ document targets 7 million people with emergency food and…
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News: Dembi Dollo uni says 12 of 17 kidnapped are campus students; investigation unit established
Hundreds of thousands who went out to voice their protests have carried posters denouncing the kidnapping and demanding answers from the federal and regional governments Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, January 28/2020 – For the first time since news of the kidnapping of 17 Dembi Dollo university students in western Oromia surfaced, the university’s president Dr. Leta Tesfaye is quoted by…
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News: Ethiopian authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests: Amnesty
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, January 27/2020 – Amnesty International said it has confirmed that at least 75 supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were arrested over the weekend from various places in different parts of Oromia Regional State, as Ethiopian authorities intensify the crackdown on dissenting political views ahead of the general elections. “The return of mass arrests of…
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