(ENA) Ethiopia and Djibouti have agreed to enhance power supply cooperation, according to Ethiopian Embassy in Djibouti. Ethiopian delegation, consisting of Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) senior officials, led by Finance Minister Ahmed Shide discussed with Djiboutian counterpart on the ways of enhancing cooperation between the two countries, specifically in the area of power supply. During […]
Day: June 11, 2021
Health Institutions in Mekele City Fully Operational: Tigray Region Health Bureau
(ENA) Health institutions in Mekele, regional capital of Tigray, have become fully operational, according to the Health Bureau. Tigray Health Bureau Emergency Medicine, Healing and Rehabilitation Core Process Coordinator, Dr. Abenezer Etsedengel said five hospitals and 11 health centers have become fully functional. According to him, Ministry of Health and international organizations have played important […]
Global Weather Hazards Summary: June 11 – 17, 2021
Parts of Africa received an increase in rainfall but remains abnormally dry in the east and west Africa Weather Hazards Desert locust swarms and hopper bands have begun to appear in parts of East Africa. Below-average rainfall in Kenya and Southern Somalia has lead to abnormal dryness. Persistant dryness due to no rainfall has caused […]
Ethiopia – Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report #12 – June 10, 2021
FAST FACTS International Medical Corps’ eight mobile health and nutrition teams in Shire, Shiraro and Axum woredas carried out 2,427 outpatient consultations in the last two weeks. In Hamdeyet refugee camp, International Medical Corps has so far trained 22 community leaders and 16 community mobilizers, who have screened 165 people for COVID-19. Between May 24 […]
They Lost Everything: Recovering from Strongest Storm Ever Recorded in the Horn of Africa
More than 60,000 people, many of them internally displaced and refugees, were affected when Cyclone Gati made landfall in the northeastern part of Somalia in November 2020 following two days of heavy rains. The tropical cyclone, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane, was the strongest storm ever recorded in the northern Indian Ocean and wreaked […]
Readiness and early response to COVID-19: achievements, challenges and lessons learnt in Ethiopia
Betty Lanyero, Zewdu Assefa Edea, Emmanuel Onuche Musa, Shambel Habebe Watare, Mayur Lalji Mandalia, Martin Chibueze Livinus, Faiqa Kassim Ebrahim, Abiy Girmay, Aggrey Kaijuka Bategereza, Aschalew Abayneh, Boureima Hama Sambo, Ebba Abate Abstract Declaration of the novel coronavirus disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern necessitated countries to get ready to respond. Here, […]