Month: June 2022
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#ASDailyScoop: Parliament refers draft budget 16.6% more than combined regular, supplemental budgets of previous fiscal year
Addis Abeba – The House of People’s Representatives (HPR) during its 11th session referred the 786.6 billion Birr draft budget bill for the 2015 Ethiopian Fiscal year to the Plan, Budget and Finance Affairs Standing Committee, reports said. The draft budget has 16.6 percent increment from last year’s regular and additional budgets combined, according to a local news agency. Out…
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News: MSF resumes medical humanitarian activities in Gambella and Somali states
MSF Gambella office. Picture: MSF Addis Abeba – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international medical and humanitarian organization, announces the restart of activities in Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia. “We are relieved to once again provide some assistance to people in these areas, many of whom have gone without essential and even life-saving care during the period…
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News: Nineteen people killed in clashes between Benishangul Gumuz special forces, militants in Kamashi zone
Addis Abeba – At least 19 people, including head of a local administration, were killed in clashes between Benishangul Gumuz regional state Special Forces and militants from the Gumuz People’s Democratic Movement (GPDM), a rebel group operating in the area, the regional state’s police commissioner said. The administrator of Mizga Woreda, in Kamashi zone was the official who was killed.…
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#ASDailyScoop: Ministry of Agriculture says more than 15 Mil quintals of fertilizer prepared for farming season
Omar Hussein, Minister of Agriculture Addis Abeba – The Ministry of Agriculture disclosed today that more than 15 million quintals of fertilizer have been prepared for the current Meher farming season in Ethiopia. Minister of Agriculture, Omar Hussein briefed members of House of Peoples’ Representative today about the activities being carried out to facilitate the supply and distribution of fertilizers…
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News: AU Peace and Security Council to convene on prevention of hate, genocide and hate crimes ideology in Africa
AU PSC in session. Picture: 2019 Archive/ISS Africa Addis Abeba – On Tuesday 07 June, the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) will convene its 1088th session on the theme ‘prevention of the ideology of hate, genocide and hate crimes in Africa’. The session is to be convened in line with the Communiqué of the 678th session of…
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News: Ethiopia’s worst drought threatens ‘deadly consequences’ for women: UN
Akib Dahir, 27, arrived at the Gabi’as displacement camp with her eight children, after losing 180 goats and 15 camels to the drought. Her husband spends hours in the baking heat on an increasingly desperate hunt for pasture and water to keep their few remaining animals alive. “We are trying to save all we have,” she said. “The animals are…
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News: Newly formed caucus sets conditions for restructuring, reforming planned national dialogue
Addis Abeba: An assembly of ten political parties, yesterday announced the formation of Caucus of Opposition Parties(COP), an institution aimed at presenting its alternatives for Ethiopia’s planned National Dialogue. The presser where all of the parties are signatories presented a thematic discussion circulating around the proposed national dialogue process, the COP enumerated how it recognized the necessity for such an…
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News: Police in West Gondar zone arrests man attempting to smuggle 21 people into Sudan in ambulance vehicle
Addis Abeba – The West Gonder Zone Justice Division announced that it has apprehended a driver who tried to smuggle 21 people into Sudan in an ambulance. Quara Woreda Health Bureau Secretariat was referenced as having said the driver had appeared in court. The defendant, Nigussie Mekonnen, picked up the 21 people (from Oromia and SNNPR), brought by different brokers,…
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Eziden Kamil Problem – Solving Young Inventor
Addis Abeba- For most of the youths in Ethiopia, connecting to the vibrant economy has never been easy, because financial services are inaccessible for the startups from the lower segment of the economy. Startups also face difficulties in finding production places, developing an acceptable business plan, and conducting clear feasibility studies. Bureaucratic hustles also worsen for newly emerging business models,…
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