Month: August 2022
- Africa
#ASDailyScoop: Southwest State Council approves multi-capital city bill
Council members of the South West Ethiopian People’s Regional state approving the budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. Picture: Communication affairs bureau Addis Abeba – The Council of the newly constituted South West Ethiopian People’s Regional State has reviewed and approved the bill for multi-capital city, which will pave ways for the creation four capital cities with equal status. In…
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News Alert: GERD second turbine begins producing power
Addis Abeba – The inauguration ceremony of the power generation by the second turbine of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is underway. Accordingly, GERD’s Unit 9 will start operation today with the capacity to generate 270 MW electricity, according to state media. Unit 10, which generates 270 MW of electricity, started generating power last February. Combined, GERD will generate…
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News: U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice discusses transitional justice in Ethiopia
Beth Van Schaack (center) with some members of the National Dialogue Commission. Photo: U.S. Embassy Addis Abeba – U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack and Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Demeke Mekonnen and various other government officials in Ethiopia to better understand systems of justice in Ethiopia. They also met…
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News: South Sudan Murle militia kill two people, kidnap two children in Gembella region cross border attack
Commissioner of the Regional Police Commission, Senai Akuwor, Photo: Gambella region press secretariat Addis Abeba – The police commission of the Gembella regional state said that two people were killed and two children were abducted after cross border attack by South Sudanese Murle militia in the border areas of the Dima Woreda, Akugu refugee camp in Gambella regional state. One…
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#ASDailyScoop: Somalia’s South West, Somali regional state Presidents agree to fight Al-Shabaab
Presidents Abdiaziz Laftagareen and Mustafe M.Omer. Picture: Somali Fastinfo. Addis Abeba – President of the Somali regional state, Mustafe M.Omer, and neighboring Somalia’s South West region President, Abdiaziz Laftagareen, met on Monday 08 August in Jigjiga, the capital of the Somali Regional State and agreed to fight against Al-Shabaab militants. This came in the backdrop of the foiled incursion in…
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News: Residents in Wolkite city, Gurage zone stage protest, boycott routine activities
A group of elders and local community members in Gurage zone holding banners rejecting the new cluster arrangement. The message in the black, circle banner reads “Gurage regional state.” Picture: Social media By Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb Addis Abeba – Residents in Wolkite city, the capital of Gurage zone in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regional state, staged protests today…
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News: Govt claims its forces kill hundreds of militants, detain thousands in various regions; recapture over 1000 kebelles in Oromia, Benishangul Gumuz states
Members of the National Security Council; Image: PMO-Ethiopia By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba: The Ethiopian government said it has killed hundreds of armed militants operating in various parts of the country, and detained thousands of suspects since the National Security Council (NSC) held its meeting in June this year and put forth a direction to tack the growing security…
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News: OLF slams AU characterization of military conflict in Oromia as “ethnic violence”
Dawud Ibssa, Chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba – The opposition party, Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), has criticized the African Union’s (AU) characterization of the militarized conflict in Oromia regional state as “ethnic violence.” The OLF was referring to a recent “Brief Note” by the AU after its High Representative for the Horn of…
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News: Security forces in Wolaita detain prominent scholar, opposition member Asefa Wodajo
Former Assistant Professor of Dilla University Asefa Wodajo. Picture: Personal Facebook By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba: Security forces in Sodo city, the capital of Wolaita zone in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regional state, detained, once again, Asefa Wodajo, a notable proponent of Wolaita Statehood and central committee member of the opposition, Wolaita National Movement (WNM), the party…
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