Year: 2022
- Afar regional state
News: Over half a million people newly displaced in Tigray, Afar and Amhara since militarized conflict resumed in August: UN
Displaced civilians in the Tigray region. Photo: Screenshot Addis Abeba: A new report by UNICEF says since fighting resumed in late August in Northern Ethiopia, approximately 574,000 people have been additionally displaced in conflict affected Afar, Amhara, and Tigray regions. According to the report the total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance throughout Ethiopia stands at 29.7 million…
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News: Malaria kills 37, infects more than 130, 000 in Oromia in three months alone: Regional Health Bureau
Malaria transmitting Mosquito. Picture: CDC Addis Ababa – Thirty seven people have died and more than 131, 000 have been infected with malaria in the past three months, Abera said, the deputy head of the Oromia Health Bureau, Abera Botore said. The number of malaria cases in the Oromia Region, which has been in decline for years, has increased since…
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News: Ethiopian Red Cross Society condemns killing of on duty ambulance driver, injured patients onboard
Archive Picture: ERCS ambulance that came under fire in early November 2020 in bordering areas between Amhara and Tigray regional states. Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) “strongly condemned” the killing by “armed forces” of its staff, Mengist Minyil, who was an ambulance driver in the North Gonder branch of the Ethiopian Red Cross, in Amhara regional…
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News: Ethiopia cautions to weigh its options, consider relations with unnamed “states and entities” making “unsubstantiated and politically motivated” accusations
Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian government said it “is forced to weigh its options and consider its relations with some states and entities” that it accused of “making unsubstantiated and politically motivated accusations of such gravity against the country”. A statement released by the office of the Federal Government Communications Service says “Ethiopia can no longer tolerate the defamatory falsehood being…
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