Month: February 2023
- Africa
#ASDailyScoop: Yemeni Airways launches biweekly flight from Aden to Addis Abeba
Addis Abeba – Yemeni Airways announced the launch of twice a week flights to Addis Abeba from Aden starting today 15 February. The last time flag carrier of the war torn Yemen flew to Addis Abeba from Aden was in 2015 according to the airways’ Ethiopia Area Manager, Fouad Attashi. Fouad told Addis Standard that the airways will operate its…
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Commentary: Why I believe Ethiopia will soon be drained of its physicians
Jimma university medical interns and students holding protests demanding a stop in the “mistreatment of medical interns & medical students” in 2019. Photo: Hakim Page By Ephrem Kirub, MD @meta201012 Addis Abeba – Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa with dire need of physicians. According to World Bank data, in 2018, there were 0.0769 physicians per 1000…
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News: Families of ten youngsters abducted by Eritrean forces near Axum in distraught over their whereabouts
Eritrean forces in Shire town on the eve of Epiphany (Timket) on 18 January. Photo: Haphtom Berhe By Mihret G/kristos @MercyG_kirstos Addis Abeba – The families of the 10 youths who were abducted by Eritrean troops from Gure Endagabir, a place around Axum city, in the Tigray regional state, on 18 January 2023 ,have expressed their deep distraught about the…
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News: President Sahle-Work cautions against using “race and religion” for political gain, calls it “crossing red line” after meeting with Orthodox Church leaders
From left: His Holiness Abune Pertos, Head of the Holy Synod Secretariat, His Holiness Abune Mathias I, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, President Sahle-Work, and His Holiness Abune Abraha, General Manager of the Holy Synod. Photo: President’s office Addis Abeba – Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde, in a statement she released on social media after meeting with leaders of…
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News: Eritrean leader says Ethiopia peace made by US to save TPLF, third round joint offensive put aside “issue of sovereignty”
President Isaias Afwerki during last night interview. Picture: Screenshot Addis Abeba – In a rare remark about the two years war in the Northern Tigray region of Ethiopia and the peace dead that ended it, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, said that the peace deal signed between Ethiopian government and Tigrayan authorities in Pretoria, South Africa in November last year to…
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News: AU joint committee to monitor Ethiopia peace implementation held inaugural meeting, urges parties to start political dialogue
Addis Abeba – AU’s Joint Committee for monitoring and implementation of the Agreement for Lasting Peace in Ethiopia through a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities (CoHA) signed between the federal government and Tigrayan authorities on 02 November last year, has held its inaugural meeting at the AU headquarters in Addis Abeba on 10 February. During the meeting, the committee commended the…
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Analysis: Victims of violence in East Wollega endure dire situations, hesitant to return home citing lingering insecurity despite officials urge otherwise
Thousands of civilians displaced from Gida Ayana district were first sheltered in school compounds. Photo: Gida Ayana communication bureau By Getahun Legesse @Birmaduu2 Addis Abeba – Internally Displaced People (IDPs) who are stranded in Gida town of Gida Ayana district, in East Wollega zone of Oromia regional state, said they are forced to endure dreadful situations without enough food, water…
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News: Opposition Sidama Federalist Party decry alarming maladministration, corruption, rights abuse in region
The Sidama Federalist Party head Office in Hawassa (Picture: SFP SM page) Addis Abeba – The Sidama Federalist Party (SFP) decried the prevalence of alarming administrative failures in the Sidama Region, including behaviors and rhetoric of the incumbent high officials that dishonor the people of the region, non-consensual salary cuts from civil servants, excessive unemployment crisis, intensified corruption and organized…
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News: Ethiopian rights commission says eight people killed in Shashemene, security forces applied “excessive use of force”
A delegation of EOTC Archbishops led by His Holiness Abune Yosef and His Holiness Abune Yacob visited the faithful who were injured in Shashemene. Picture: Mahibere Kidusan Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a report that eight people were killed following “excessive use of force” by government security forces during clashes with followers of Orthodox…
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News: Synod Secretariat sends letters to five Tigray Archbishops seeking “reconciliation”, blames “political conspiracy” for rift
Tigrayan Archbishops during the inauguration this week of the first of its kind Liturgy Book in Tigrigna and Geez languages. Photo: Laza Images Addis Abeba – Amidst escalating instability and widening schism within the the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church (EOTC), the Holy Synod Secretariat has sent letters to five Archbishops in the Tigray regional state requesting for talks of “reconciliation.”…
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