Year: 2022
- Africa
News: Oromia Police shot dead two, injure several others at Timket festival over flag controversy
Picture: Social media Addis Abeba, January 22/2022- Two people were killed and several others were injured in a stand-off between security forces and participants of Timket festival in Burayu town in the Oromia special zone surrounding Finfinne, reports said. Eyewitnesses told DW Amharic that parishioners of St. Mary church in Burayu town who were escorting the Tabot ( a sacred…
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News: South Sudanese gunmen cross border, kill half a dozen people in Gambella region
Abula Ubong, Gambella regional police commissioner By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba, January 21/2022 – The Gambella region police commission stated that militiamen from neighboring South Sudan crossed borders and launched an attack on the region leaving eight people dead and five others injured. According to the police commission, the gunmen are from South Sudan’s Murle tribe. The onslaught took…
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News: Ethiopia says holding of 35th AU in capital ‘grand diplomatic success’
Ambassador Dina Mufti, spokesperson of the ministry of foreign affairs By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba, January 20, 2022 – “The African Union decision to convene the 35th AU Summit in Addis Abeba is a grand diplomatic success for Ethiopia,” said the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) ambassador Dina Mufti during today’s biweekly press briefing.…
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News: PM Abiy calls on Sudan, Egypt to nurture GERD ‘narrative towards building peace, cooperation, mutual co-existence and development’
Ethiopia’s mega dam GERD. Photo; Seleshi Bekele (PhD) Addis Abeba – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on Sudan and Egypt “to nurture the narrative towards building peace, cooperation, mutual co-existence and development of all our people without harming one another.” In a letter PM Abiy issued today, he said that the “Nile in general and the GERD project in…
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News: UN agrees to replace Ethiopian forces within UNISFA: Sudan
United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Picture: UN /A.Velasco Addis Abeba – Sudan on Wednesday announced that the United Nations (UN) agreed to replace thousands of Ethiopian forces within the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) with other UN forces. Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan received a phone call from UN Undersecretary-General for…
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News: As airstrikes in Tigray alarm UN, its Chief lauds ‘demonstrable effort to make peace’
African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo during one of his meetings with Tigray’s leader Debretsion G/Michael Addis Abeba – The U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he had “a telephone conversation” with the African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, “to exchange views with him on the conflict in Ethiopia following…
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News: Journalist Meaza Mohammed released from detention
Journalis Meaza Mohammed Addis Abeba – Journalist Meaza, the co-founder of online media outlet, Roha Media, who previously worked at Abbay media is released from detention this afternoon.Meaza was arrested while on her way to work by plain clothed security forces more in the first week of December last year. According to her husband, Robel Gebeyehu, the police neither searched…
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News: In Ethiopia Phee, Satterfield to discuss ending air strikes, negotiated ceasefire, release of all political prisoners & humanitarian access
Assistant Secretary Molly Phee and newly appointed Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield. Picture: Agencies Addis Abeba – During their visit to Ethiopia, Assistant Secretary Molly Phee and newly appointed Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield “will follow up on President Biden’s constructive phone call with Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy on January 10.…
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Analysis: No sign of redress for Karrayyu Abba Gadaas executed by Oromia police despite state minister, MP named culprits
Some of Karrayyu’s Gadda Michille leaders, Councilors and Qallu (Spiritual leaders) who were executed on December 1, 2021 By Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne Addis Abeba, January 17, 2021- Six of the jailed members of the Karrayyu Gadaa leadership who were initially said to have gone missing after the unlawful deaths of 14 members of the Karrayyu Gadaa Michilee leaders were released…
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