PREAMBLE: Please visualize 2008’s Malia and Sasha while reading my piece. This is in regards to the deafening silence by the west when children of the then Sasha and Malia’s age have become sacrificial lambs to fulfill TPLF’S desire of building apartheid hegemony in Ethiopia and shoving it down the throats of over 110 million people with the blessings of the USA. The year was 2008 and almost all Ethio-Americans of voting age voted for you; stood by you even during your serious blunders in our capital city, Addis Ababa , when you concurred to TPLF’s 100℅ election victory in […]
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Eritrean refugees in Tigray’s Mai Tsebri area face intimidation and harassment, live in constant fearPeter Kenny | 27.07.2021 The UN Refugee Agency said Tuesday it is “extremely worried” about thousands of Eritrean refugees trapped in two refugee camps in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region as fighting escalates between armed groups in and around the camps. An estimated 24,000 Eritrean refugees in Mai Aini and Adi Harush camps in Tigray’s Mai Tsebri area face intimidation and harassment, live in constant fear, are cut off from humanitarian assistance, said the UNHCR. “We have received disturbing and credible reports in recent days from Mai Aini camp that at least one refugee was killed by armed elements operating inside […] By Giulia Paravicini and Maggie Fick July 27, 2021 / Reuters SHEWEATE HUGUM, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Burned-out military vehicles, boxes of ammunition and the bodies of scores of federal troops were still scattered along the dirt road that runs through the Ethiopian village of Sheweate Hugum three weeks after the fighting subsided. Beside them lay the leftovers of lives cut short: family photographs, school diplomas, Ethiopian flags. (for Photo Essay please click on: https://reut.rs/3kWbsOp) What happened here in mid-June was just one battle in an eight-month war between Ethiopia’s military and rebellious forces in the northern region of Tigray. But, […] By Giulia Paravicini and Maggie Fick July 27, 2021 / Reuters SHEWEATE HUGUM, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Burned-out military vehicles, boxes of ammunition and the bodies of scores of federal troops were still scattered along the dirt road that runs through the Ethiopian village of Sheweate Hugum three weeks after the fighting subsided. Beside them lay the leftovers of lives cut short: family photographs, school diplomas, Ethiopian flags. (for Photo Essay please click on: https://reut.rs/3kWbsOp) What happened here in mid-June was just one battle in an eight-month war between Ethiopia’s military and rebellious forces in the northern region of Tigray. But, […] Meron Hadero has become the first Ethiopian author to win the prestigious AKO Caine Prize for African Writing“I’m absolutely thrilled, I’m in shock – being shortlisted in itself was a huge honour,” she told the BBC. Her winning short story is about an Ethiopian boy called Getu, who has to navigate the fraught power dynamics of NGOs and foreign aid in Addis Ababa. It impressed the judges who found it “utterly without self-pity” and said it “turns the lens” on the usual clichés. Hadero will take home £10,000 ($13,000) in prize money. The author was born in Ethiopia and raised in the US by parents who are both medical doctors. Her sister is the singer Meklit Hadero, […] The Kalashnikov is a standard-issue weapon in the region As he set off to vote in Ethiopia’s national election, Tesfahun Sisay chose his outfit with purpose, pulling on a T-shirt emblazoned with a man’s face and a Kalashnikov rifle. That man was Asaminew Tsige: revered by many in Amhara, Asaminew commanded the region’s muscular security forces until two years ago, when he was accused of spearheading a local coup and shot dead by police. “I like this man,” said Tesfahun, gesturing to his T-shirt after voting in the June 21 election at a rural polling station outside Bahir Dar, the […] Tel Aviv is secretly supporting Ethiopia in the dam crisis and intervening in the case with the aim of putting pressure on the EgyptiansSeveral thousand years after the Abrahamic religions’ story about the Nile River, Israelites, and Egypt, the three are meeting each other again in North Africa. An artery to Egypt, the Nile is constituted of the two Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. Blue Nile is a rich river originating in Ethiopia. The White Nile has its origin in Lake Victoria among Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The White Nile enters South Sudan after passing through Uganda, and the Blue Nile enters South Sudan from another route. The two merge in Khartoum before streaming to the greater Nile. The Nile River supplies […] By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Nation Media Group All domestic and international flights which were bound to land at Addis Ababa Bole international airport have been diverted to land elsewhere after Ethiopian authorities temporarily shut the country’s main airport. Speaking to Nation.Africa, an Ethiopian Airlines official said that all flights headed to Addis Ababa have since yesterday been diverted to nearby airports. “This due to a bad weather at Bole International Airport and the surrounding area,” the source, who did not want to be named since they are not authorised to speak to the media, said. The official said flights to Addis Ababa […] 
 Ethiopia has collected $3.62 billion from export in the fiscal year ended on July 7, 2021, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry announced. The ministry said the amount is a “historical high.” […] |
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