The federal government has declared a state of emergency as of Saturday, October 9, 2016. The cabinet of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has an emergency meeting on Saturday afternoon where the government declared the state of emergency at a time of deteriorating security situation in Oromia Regional State. The state of emergency declared for the […]
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The Embassy of Sweden would like to express its deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives at the Irreecha celebration in Bishoftu this weekend, and regrets the violence and injuries. As a way of expressing our sympathies to the victims and their families, the Swedish flag at the Embassy will be […]
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Many of the social media users are said to be sent a video with their name on it. Please do not open it! That is a virus. በስማችን ቪዲዮ ያለው ቫይረስ እየተላከ ነው እንዳትከፍቱት አደራ!!!
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Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has apologised for mistakes in school textbooks, state-owned television has reported. The sixth grade English language textbook wrongly placed Ethiopia’s highest mountain, Ras Dashen, in Tigray Regional State instead of the Amhara Regional State, it quotes an unidentified ministry official as saying. The official added that a map in a tenth grade textbook on nationality and ethics failed […]
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The Northern Korean dictator has made some spectacular claims about scientific advances in the country North Korea has created a wonder drug which not only cures Aids, but also eradicates Ebola and cancer, if the latest proclamation from the country’s news agency is to be believed*. An announcement says that the miracle cure consists of […]
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stop using Galaxy Note 7 Samsung issues recall after Galaxy Note 7 catches fire SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics is urging consumers worldwide to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones immediately and exchange them as soon as possible, as more reports of the phones catching fire emerged even after the company’s global recall. The […]
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In January, 2016, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom was nominated as Africa’s candidate for director general of the UN World Health Organization. Just this past week, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was named global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by the WHO, a position in which he will serve under whoever is ultimately […]
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Congress has the power of the purse to stop the massive human right abuses in Ethiopia. Congress should send human rights experts to investigate the atrocities in the Amhara, Oromo and Somali regions by the Ethiopian security forces, and to let the media cover those regions. Secondly, Congress must also act now and cut all […]
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Ethiopia has dismissed a plea from the United Nations that it allow international observers to investigate the killing of protesters by security forces during a recent bout of anti-government demonstrations. Getachew Reda, a government spokesman, told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the UN was entitled to its opinion but the government of Ethiopia was responsible […]
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Online activists of the #OromoProtest, a persistent anti-government protest by Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, have called for massive protest rallies throughout the Oromia regional state, the largest among the nine regional states in Ethiopia. Accordingly, activists are calling on a region-wide protest on August 06 to continue the protest that first flared up […]
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