Year: 2022
- Ethiopia
News Analysis: South Wollo, Debre Berhan drivers, passengers ban entering Addis Abeba
By BirukAlemu@Birukalemu21 & GetahunTsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba: Southern Wollo Communication Bureau announced that passengers traveling to Addis Ababa from Desse City, South and North Wollo Zones and Wag Hemra Zone were subjected to extreme harassment and abuse when they arrived in Sheno City, Oromia Region to enter Addis Ababa.Unless they hold Addis Abeba resident IDs, they could not pass, it…
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#ASDailyScoop: Ethiopia in position “to protect airspace from any attack”: Air Force Chief
Military jets parked inside the Ethiopian Air Force Compound in Bishoftu city. Picture: ENA Addis Abeba – Lieutenant General Yilma Merdassa, the Commander in chief of Ethiopia’s Air Force told state media that the Air Force is “in a position to protect and defend our airspace from any kind of attack.” Lt. Gen Yilma said that the Air Force envisions…
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Analysis: Trials at peace in violence-ravaged Metekel
Members of the community walking into a reconciliation ceremony; Picture : Metekel Zone Communications Bureau By Fraol Bersissa @FiraolBer Addis Abeba: A conflict hotspot in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Metekel has seen an escalation of violence since 2020 that has resulted in mass displacements, indiscriminate killings, and property damage. The first attack in September 2020 left scores dead; displacing over 300,…
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News: Ethiopia completes third round filling of Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam successfully: Premier
Picture: EEP Addis Abeba – The third round filling of Renaissance Dam has been successfully completed, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced. Speaking on the occasion, PM Abiy assured downstream countries of the Nile, Egypt and Sudan, that when Ethiopia set out to build a dam on the Nile, from the beginning it did not want to make the river to…
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News Analysis: Boundary works between Addis Abeba, Oromia a big mistake: EZEMA
Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba: The Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (EZEMA) Party said that the decision to delimit the administrative boundaries between Addis Abeba city and the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine is a “big mistake” and also called it an “attempt to forcefully impose” whereby the disadvantage would outweigh the advantages. Following the emergency meeting of the party’s…
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News update: Gurage Zone Council declines new cluster restructuring, stick to earlier request
SNNP President Ristu Yirda, attending the council meeting. Source: GZGC Addis Abeba – In an emergency meeting held today, the Council of Gurage Zone, In Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regional state rejected the government’s proposal to be organized in clusters to pave ways for two more new regional states. The emergency meeting was attended by the 92 of…
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#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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