Year: 2021
- Africa
News: Police detain prominent journalist shortly after reporting on protest video at Ireechaa festival in the capital
Journalist Tesfale Waldyes By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba, October 04, 2021 – Ethiopian Federal Police said missing prominent journalist Tesfalem Waldyes, founder and editor-in-chief of Ethiopia Insider, an emerging Amharic news outlet, is in police custody. Tesfalem was reported missing by families and friends since Saturday October 01. This morning, Mulisa Abdissa, the federal police crime investigation unit deputy…
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Analysis : As it reckons with multi-layered crises, Ethiopia forms new government in the absence of Tigray, incomplete electoral process
Ashenafi Meaza swearng in Abiy Ahmed as Prime Minister. Photo: HoPR. By Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan & Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne Addis Abeba, October 04/2021 – As per the established norm, President Sahle-Work Zewde has this morning opened the 6th joint parliamentary session of the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) and the House of Federation (HoF) in a bid to mark the…
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News: Ethiopia accuses expelled UN staff of helping TPLF, asks UN to “expeditiously replace” them
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Demeke Mekonenn and U.N. Secretary-General during the last UN General Assembly in New York. Picture: MoFA Addis Abeba, October 01/2021 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia accused seven UN staff it ordered to leave the country of helping the TPLF in various ways and asked the United Nations…
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Special Edition: Transition to Democracy in Deeply Divided Ethiopia: Mission Impossible?
Please click here to download the PDF version of this special edition. By Guest Contributor Introduction Transition from authoritarianism to democracy is not a linear path and is vastly complicated process.[2] Indeed, the ousting of an authoritarian regime or its collapse and holding routine elections does not automatically translate to democracy.[3] In the worst cases and as it happened in…
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News: UNSC to discuss crisis in Tigray today under AOB
Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba, October 01/2021 – The UN Security Council members will convene today under “Any Other Business” to discuss the situation in the Tigray regional state. Tomorrow (1 October), #UNSC members will discuss the situation in the #Tigray region of #Ethiopia under "Any Other Business". The meeting was requested by @EstoniaUN, @franceonu, @irishmissionun, @NorwayUN, @UKUN_NewYork and @USUN.—…
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News: Amidst deepening security crisis in Benishangul-Gumuz state, Rights Commission calls for “immediate action” to ensure civilians’ safety
Lt. Gen. Asrat Denero, Commander-in-Chief of the FDRE Ground Forces and Coordinator of the Metekel Zone Integrated Command Post in a meeting with local militia in Pawi Wereda. Picture: Metekel Zone Addis Standard staff Addis Abeba, October 01/2021 – The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has called on the federal government and the local command post “to take immediate action”…
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News: US, EU, Germany & UK condemn UN staff expulsion, ask Ethiopia to reverse decision; US threatens to use Executive Order
Expelled UN Staff By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba, October 01/2021 – After Ethiopia declared seven individuals working for various UN affiliated organizations “persona non grata” and accused them of meddling in the internal affairs of the country, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Germany condemned the decision and asked Ethiopia to reverse its decision. The President…
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News: UN chief “shocked” by staff expulsion from Ethiopia
Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR at a Press Conference after 66th session of Excom. 9 October 2015. UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré Addis Abeba, September 30/2021 – The UN Secretary General António Guterres said he “was shocked by the information that the Government of Ethiopia has declared seven UN officials, including senior UN humanitarian officials, as persona…
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