Month: February 2023
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#ASDailyScoop: Ethiopia secures €182 million during PM Abiy’s latest visit to Italy
Photo: Abiy Ahmed Ali/Twitter Addis Abeba – As part of the Ethiopian Italian Cooperation Framework 2023-2025 which was announced during the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visit to Rome on 06 February, the two countries have signed agreements worth 140 million Euros (100 million soft loans and 40 million grant). According to a statement sent to Addis Standard by the Italian…
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News: Court to rule on Orthodox Church’s request to ban breakaway archbishops for three months as it prepares to press charges
The three breakaway Archbishops at the center of the ongoing controversy who have been excommunicated by the EOTC Holy Synod are, from left, Abune Eustathius, Abune Sawiros, and Abune Zena Markos. Picture: Sinoodoosii Oromiyaa Addis Abeba – The Federal High Court, Lideta division, fundamental rights, and freedoms bench on Monday has adjourned until today to issue a ruling on a…
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News: Addis Police says 19 officers injured in confrontation with group gathered in Orthodox church in Oromia special zone; urges refrain from “actions to disturb peace”
Photo: Addis Abeba Police Addis Abeba – The Addis Abeba Police said that “19 police leaders and officers sustained serious and light injuries” during a confrontation on Monday with a group of people who gathered at St. Lideta of the Orthodox Church, located in Philidoro, a location bordering Addis Abeba city and Oromia Regional State Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine. Following…
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News: ONLF condemns “unacceptable violations of press freedom” after recent media ban in Somali Region
Addis Abeba – Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has condemned what it described as “escalated suppression of media freedom in the Somali Region” which according to the party has “devastating impact on Journalism and the right to information.” ONLF said in a press release on Saturday that despite the services they have been providing to the state and to the…
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News Analysis: Clashes between Orthodox faithful, local police claim “lives of many” in Shashemene; Holy Synod, government in war of words as both stick to their positions over Church schism
The clashes broke out during the trip to Shashemene by Abune Paulus, the newly nominated episcopate by the breakaway Archbishops for the West Arsi diocese. Picture showing the welcoming reception for the group. Photo: Sinoodoosii Oromiyaa Addis Ababa – Clashes lash between followers of Orthodox Christianity and the local police in West Arsi zone, Shashemene city of the Oromia Region…
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News: Gurage zone residents stage fresh stay at home protests over unresolved statehood demand as NEBE conducts referendum for new regional state
Voting underway in Gamo Zone, under Arba Minch Center, Doysa Kebele of Doysa Polling Station. Picture: NEBE Addis Abeba – Residents of Gurage zone including in the capital Wolkite, have staged a fourth round protests by boycotting routine civil service and business activities on the same day the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) is conducting a referendum in six…
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Analysis: Central Bank sends cash to banks in Tigray as liquidity crisis cripples recent service resumptions
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Mekelle Branch. Photo: Social Media Addis Abeba – The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has begun distributing 5 billion Birr ($90 million) to banks in the Tigray region to enable them resume their much needed services amidst growing complaints from residents who despite re-opening of banks in the region were unable to get services due to…
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Analysis: Amid growing concerns on delayed, inadequate services restoration, Premier meets Tigrayan negotiating team, promises to speed up process
PM Abiy and TPLF representatives met on Friday in Halela Kella, a remote area located in Dawro Zone of the SNNP regional state. Picture: Redwan Hussien Addis Abeba – The Peace negotiating teams of the federal government and the Tigray Region have met in the presence of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) for the first time and discussed the progress…
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News: Orthodox Synod declares faithful to wear black for Fast of Nineveh to protest against “illegal group”
His Holiness Abune Pertos, (left), Head of the Holy Synod Secretariat, and His Holiness Abune Mathias I, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. File photo Addis Abeba – The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) in Addis Abeba has declared the faithful to observe the upcoming three days of Fast of Nineveh which will be observed…
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