Month: March 2021
- Africa
News: Tigray Interim Admin Officials say they are dismissed for speaking up against atrocities and destruction
Left to right, Alula Habteab and Amdom Gebreselassie. BY MEDIHANE EKUBAMICHAEL @MEDIHANE Addis Abeba March 16, 2021 – Amdom Gebreselassie, Deputy Head of Communication Affairs bureau , and Alula Habteab, Head of the bureau of Construction, Road and Transport have been discharged from their duties through a letter they received from Mulu Nega (PhD), Head of Tigray Interim Administration. According to…
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In depth analysis: Three years of broken promises, anger compound Oromo IDPS displaced after violence ravaged Oromia-Somali regions.
Adama’s Ganda Hara camp from a distance, located in Bole sub-city and on the road to Addis Abeba By Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan & Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne Addis Ababa, March 16/2021 – It never occurred to Abdi Suleiman, an ethnic Oromo who escaped his home in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia at the start of conflicts in the border areas between Somali…
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News: 15 Defendants in Jawar Mohammed’s file entered pleas of not guilty; Bekele Gerba, Hamza Adane, Jawar Mohammed and Shemsedin Taha did not appear.
Left to right: Bekele Gerba, Jawar Mohammed and Hamza Borana By Mahlet Fasil @MahletFasil Addis Abeba, March 15/2021– Today the Federal High Court, Lideta Branch, First Constitutional and Anti-Terrorism Bench saw the case of 24 defendants in Jawar Mohammed’s file who are charged in violation of Article 240 of the 1996 Penal Code, violation of the Proclamation No. 1176 /2012 on…
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News: More than 40 civilians killed in western Oromia; regional gov’t, OLA rebels trade blame
Picture received by Addis Standard shows victims’ bodies of the weekend killing in Horo Guduru, east Wellega, in Oromia By Mahlet Fasil @mahletfasil Addis Abeba, March 12/2021 – A series of attacks in western Oromia regional state mounted by armed men against civilians since Saturday March 6 claimed the lives of at least 42 people so far, including women and children. The…
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News: Oromia Special Forces in East Wollega kill a high-school student days before he sits for school leaving exam
Student Tadele was killed just days before he was scheduled to sit for the 12th grade national school leaving exam, which was concluded On Thursday Match 11 By Siyanne Mekonnen @siyaanne Addis Abeba, March 12/2021 – As the Oromia regional state government renewed its vows to wipe out the rebel group Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), an intensified crackdown continued to claim…
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News Update: Federal Police free Keria Ibrahim as prosecutors seek to bring terrorism, criminal charges against 20 former TPLF leaders
At a court hearing in February, the police claimed they have secured ten witnesses to testify against Keria. Photo: HoPR By Mahlet Fasil @mahletfasil Addis Abeba, March 11/2021 – The Federal police has told a federal court this morning that Keria Ibrahim, former speaker of the House of Federation, (HoF) was already released from detention. Keria, a member of TPLF’s Executive…
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News: mPharma, Belayab Pharmaceuticals sign franchise agreement to launch Haltons Pharmacies in Ethiopia
The franchise will see mPharma enter its eighth market in Sub-Saharan Africa and third in East Africa Addis Abeba, March 11/2021: mPharma, a health tech startup based in Ghana that manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, has signed a franchise agreement with Belayab Pharmaceuticals PLC to increase patient access to affordable and quality medications in Ethiopia, through its…
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News: Yemen requests Ethiopia to send special aircraft to repatriate victims’ bodies, survivors of detention center fire
Picture: Carmela Godeau, IOM By Bileh Jelan @bilehjelan Addis Abeba, March 10/2021 – Addis Standard has learnt from sources in Yemen’s capital Sana’a that the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent an official letter, a copy of which is received by Addis Standard, to its counterpart in Addis Abeba requesting the Ethiopian government to send a “special Ethiopian aircraft to…
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Letter: “Our forces are absolutely not responsible” for recent killing in Horo Guduru: OLA Spokesperson
Members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) Dear Editors, We were dismayed at seeing a one-sided article being released by your publication that erroneously places blame on us for an atrocity committed in Horo Guduru on Orthodox Christians. What is further confusing is you based this assertion on the account of a single individual. We would like to state under no…
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News Analysis: OLF officially out from upcoming election, continues call for release of its jailed leadership, members
Hundreds of thousands of OLF fans turned op at Addis Abeba Mesqel Square in September 2018. Photo: Social Media By Siyanne Mekonnen @siyaanne Addis Abeba, March 10/2021 – The opposition party Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has officially announced that it has withdrawn from the upcoming election. In an interview with Addis Standard the party’s interim public relations head, Batte Urgessa, a…
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