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News: Biden extends sanctions on unnamed officials connected to humanitarian, human rights crisis in Ethiopia
President Biden. Picture: White House Addis Abeba – U.S. President Joe Biden has extended his September 2021 Executive Order “imposing…
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News: AS explainer on re-detention of journalists Meaza Mohammed and Gobeze Sisay
Journalists Gobeze Sisay and Meaza Mohammed. Picture: Screengrab By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba – On Wednesday September 08, government…
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News: Ethiopia rejects UN experts call for UNSC meeting as “ultra vires, blatant”; cautions it forecloses “all doors of cooperation”
In early August, members of the UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia with Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy PM…
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News: Ethiopia disavows state media report doubting Somalia President for “strong relationship with TPLF”
Screenshot from Etv World news program Addis Abeba – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) on Wednesday 07…
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News: In Ethiopia scientists identify Fossil Otter the Size of a Lion
Reconstruction of the otter Enhydriodon omoensis (in background), compared with three current species, left to right: the South American giant…
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News: Rights Commission says militants from local, neighboring Amhara region responsible for recent massacre of more than 60 in Oromia
A picture that circulated on Social Media platforms last week shows mass displacement of civilians after the attack Addis Abeba…
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News: Ethiopia calls on Nile Basin riparian states to expedite coming into force of CFA
Picture: MoFA Addis Abeba – Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, called on all…
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News: US condemns “Eritrea’s reentry” into Ethiopia war, sending Horn envoy to make parties “engage in peace talks”
One of the earliest pictures showing Eritrean forces’ involvement in the Tigray war was captured by Reuters journalist Dawit Endeshaw…
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News: Indiscriminate attacks leave dozens dead in Horo Guduru, Oromia; witnesses blame ‘Fano militants’
By Addis Standard staff Addis Abeba: In what survivors have described as an “indiscriminate attack” carried out on Tuesday 30…
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