Month: April 2022
- Ethiopia
News Analysis: National Security Council classifies Ethiopia’s “enemies” into three, vows to respond with timely, proportional measures
Members of the National Security Council. Picture: PMO Addis Abeba – The National Security Council, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and comprised of senior army, police and intelligence officials, as well as regional state presidents, among others, met and discussed yesterday about the current security situation in the country. Subsequently, the Council announced that it will begin taking measures…
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News: OLF members, ONN journalists charged with attempts to dismantle gov’t, attempts to form ‘Oromia National Transitional Government’
By Dereje Gonfa @DerejeGonfa Addis Abeba – 14 members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and three journalists of Oromia News Network (ONN), was today arraigned at Oromia Supreme Court located in Addis Abeba. The 17 defendants in Qasim Abdullahi’s file presented their defense in writing against charges of attempting to dismantle the legally established governmental system to instill the…
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Business: Two cooperative unions in Konso zone, Karat surrounding area kick off gold mining activities
100 unemployed youths are organized in two blocks under the two cooperatives to engage in the gold mining activities. Picture: Konso Zone Communication Bureau Addis Abeba – Two cooperative unions in Lehayite Kebele, Karat Woreda, in Konso Zone of the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regional state kicked off gold mining activities on 20 April with some 100 unemployed…
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News: East Showa zone reports burning of ambulance vehicle en route to Adama from Hararghe zone: accuses ‘Amhara extremists’
Photo: East Showa zone communication bureau Addis Abeba – The East Showa zone administration stated that an ambulance vehicle was burnt down by ‘extremist Amhara forces’ calling themselves ‘Fano’. The ambulance with a total of four passengers was en route from Gursum woreda of the East Hararghe zone to Adama on the 19th of April, 2022, the East Showa zone…
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News: Government not barring Eritrean nationals from leaving Ethiopia: MoFA
Ambassador Dina Mufti, Spokesperson of the Minister of Foreign Affairs By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba – “The Ethiopian government will cautiously examine the case of Eritrean passport holders with foreign visas, who complained of being barred from leaving Ethiopia, the Spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) ambassador Dina Mufti said at today’s MoFA’s biweekly press release.…
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#ASDaillyScoop: Ombudsman reports atrocities, infrastructure destruction in Afar, Amhara regions
Photo: ENA Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman (EIO) reported massacres and severe infrastructural destruction, in the Amhara and Afar regional states. The survey was conducted in seven zones of Amhara and two zones of Afar regions. Some 1,217 people were raped in the Amhara region, infrastructure was deliberately destroyed and 1.8 million people were made dependent…
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News: 65% of people in Irob, NE Tigray facing extreme food insecurity; 87,000 people displaced within eastern zone in March: UN
“Irob, also referred to as Irob land or Adi Irob (ዓዲ ኢሮብ/ኢሮብ ዲክ) in Tigrigna/Saho, is located in the north eastern part of Tigray. It borders Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia’s Afar region to the east, and the remainder of Tigray to the southwest. Irob is part of a region in northeastern Tigray historically called Agame, which had Adigrat as…
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