Civil Rights Leaders Recount “Exasperating” Meeting With Facebook About Hate...
Civil rights groups behind the Stop Hate for Profit campaign said they’d be willing to meet with Facebook again. A coalition of civil rights leaders who organized the Stop Hate for Profit boycott met...
View ArticleMy Notes on the Current Situations /ELIAS YEMANE/
Ethiopia is at a hinge moment in the course of national survival. The current intensification of incitement to violence represents how extremists overlook legal, social, and personal boundaries....
View ArticleWater cooperation between States ‘key’ to Blue Nile dam project
The Blue Nile is “critical for the livelihoods and development” of Egyptians, Ethiopians and Sudanese, the top UN official for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs told the Security Council on Monday,...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie is a proud mom, calls daughter Zahara an ‘extraordinary...
HT Entertainment Desk Hindustan Times Actor Angelina Jolie expressed pride about her daughter Zahara’s African roots in a conversation for Time, with Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. Jolie...
View ArticleEgypt must accept that the Nile belongs to Ethiopia and 8 other African...
The author Thembisa Fakude is a researcher for the Al Jazeera Center for Studies The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) continues to create political tensions between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. The...
View ArticleEthiopian premier Abiy Ahmed in Eritrea to discuss regional issues.
Ethiopia’s prime minister arrived in Eritrea on an official visit on Saturday. Abiy Ahmed was welcomed in the capital Asmara by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and other senior officials. The two...
View ArticleEgypt announces plan for water conservation
Egypt on Tuesday announced a complete plan for water conservation in parallel with convening a mini-African summit to discuss Ethiopia’s Renaissance dam project and to move forward with the dam’s...
View ArticleEthiopia says it does not want binding GERD agreement with Egypt, Sudan
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry announced Friday that it is not seeking a binding agreement with Egypt and Sudan on the contentious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that it is constructing on the Blue Nile...
View ArticleANALYSIS – What is it that Ethiopia and Egypt are exactly sparring over at a...
Two of Africa’s historical nations are capable of achieving a tremendous deal Endris Mekonnen Faris ISTANBUL Regional powers on their respective turfs, the increasing bellicosity between Addis Ababa...
View ArticleRemembering July 29, 2018 “PM Abiy Ahmed Ethiopia Day” in Los Angeles
In a memorable sonnet, Shakespeare wrote, “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past…” Today, I summon up remembrance of “July 29, 2018 ‘PM Abiy Ahmed...
View ArticleEthiopia: Financial Contribution Surges Sharply in the Wake of Historic GERD...
The financial contribution of the public to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has seen a surprising surge following the announcement of the completion of the dam’s first round filling,...
View ArticleHow to understand the Grand Renaissance Dam tensions between Egypt, Ethiopia...
Ethiopia’s on-going construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River has attracted speculation that it could lead to a ‘water war’. There is no doubt that the dam has become a...
View ArticleWHO leader is stuck between feuding China and US. It’s a situation ‘rock...
By Emma Reynolds, CNN (CNN)Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was watching late-night television when he saw a hospital boss criticizing him and Ethiopia’s Health Ministry, which he was leading at the time,...
View ArticleFlooding in northeastern Ethiopia displaces nearly 20,000 |By Elias Meseret |
By Elias Meseret | AP August 8, 2020 at 10:30 p.m. GMT+10 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An official in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region says heavy flooding has displaced some 20,000 people from their...
View ArticleEthiopia says US pressure on Addis Ababa could damage Nile dam talks
The spokesman for the Ethiopian foreign ministry said Addis Ababa remains committed to the negotiations This handout picture was taken on July 20, 2020, and released by Adwa Pictures on July 27, 2020,...
View ArticleEthiopians struggle to cope with COVID-19 fears |By Seleshi Tessema Mulata |
Art café and gallery provides relief to people stressed due to coronavirus and other worries Seleshi Tessema Mulata | On a cold blustery summer morning, heightened fears of the COVID-19 pandemic...
View ArticlePope calls for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over Nile dam
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis called for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Saturday, urging them not to let a dispute over a dam on the Nile lead to conflict. The Grand Ethiopian...
View ArticleEthiopian authorities detain journalists, media workers on incitement...
On August 5 and 6, 2020, security personnel in Ethiopia arrested three current and one former employee of the privately-owned Amhara Satellite Radio And Television (ASRAT), according to an August 10...
View ArticleEthiopia: Young Innovators Win Trophy for a Mobile App That Detects Plant...
By Haile Demeke Established by two young Engineers, Debo Engineering PLC has become the Ethiopian country winner in MEST Africa Challenge Country Finals and win community voice competing with eight...
View ArticleEthiopia is Africa’s next superpower but here are four boxes it needs to tick
Ethiopians whose patriotism is founded on some philosophy of Manifest Destiny cannot be dismissed when political scientists accept American exceptionalism with a straight face. Of course, this is not...
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