Month: January 2023
- Africa
News: Two civilians, a police officer killed in clashes between residents, security forces in Derashe Special Woreda, southern region
Derashe Special Woreda. Picture: Screenshot/Archive By Natnael Fite @NatieFit Addis Ababa – Two people, including a policeman, were killed in Ataya village, Derashe Special Woreda of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNP) in a clash between regional security forces and residents on 02 January 2023, a resident of the special woreda told Addis Standard. The Regional police commission also…
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News: WHO chief applauds “good progress” in humanitarian aid flow to Tigray, but says Eritrean forces continued massacring civilians
Tedros Adhanom. Photo: Screenshot /AS Addis Abeba – Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom (PhD), said there was a “good progress” both in food and medicines delivery and resumption of basic services in the Tigray region following the peace deal signed in 02 November between Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces, but expressed his concerns over the…
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The Interview: “Our concern was always to the vulnerable people impacted by war, not pressuring one side”-UK’s Ambassador to Ethiopia
Ambassador Alastair McPhail (PhD). Photo: Personal Blog Ambassador Alastair McPhail (PhD) is the current ambassador of United Kingdom (UK) to Ethiopia and Djibouti (non-resident) and Permanent Representative to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa since January 2019. He sat down with Addis Standard’s MOLLA MITIKU, to discuss UK’s intervention in ending Ethiopia’s devastating war, prospects of the…
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‘Find and Treat’: A campaign to save lives in Borena zone
©UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene Finding and treating malnourished children in drought affected areas of Ethiopia Addis Abeba – After one of the most severe droughts in decades hit the Borena zone of Oromia Region, communities lost many of their cattle – their only means of livelihood. Thousands of people, mainly women and children, have been forced to leave their homes. The…
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News: Opposition party in restive Benishangul region asks immediate elections in constituencies skipped for security, condemns claims of ‘ancestral land ownership’
Members of the BDP Executive committee. Photo: BDP Addis Ababa – Boro Democratic Party (BDP) has urged the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) to conduct the delayed 6th National election in parts of the Benishangul Gumuz region; the party also condemned groups who it says are destabilizing the region by spreading a “false narrative” of “restoring ancestral lands.” In…
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In-depth: Oromia’s makeshift prisons where “there are neither rights nor humanity”: testimonies of former prisoners
Graphic design: Addis Standard Addis Abeba – Disappearance in police custody and remaining behind bars despite acquittal by the court of law became a modus operandi in the Oromia regional state. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission revealed in a report in May, illegal detentions were rampant in Oromia region, in police stations, irregular prisons, military training camps, or military bases.…
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