July 22, 2021 (MANDERA, Kenya): July 22, 2021 (MANDERA, Kenya): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) through its Nairobi-based Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) today held a ceremony to mark the handing over of 2 tractors to communities in Mandera on March 27. IGAD Executive Secretary, Dr Workenh Gebeyehu, presided the ceremony along […]
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Ethiopian Government Accuses TPLF of Disrupting Aid Delivery to Tigray
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The Ethiopian government accuses Tigray forces of expanding the conflict into the neighboring Afar region, the third regional state to be drawn into the conflict. Authorities say this has imperiled food aid to some of the 54,000 people who have fled their homes due to the fighting. Mitiku Kasa, Ethiopia’s National […]
Ethiopia’s Afar Region Urges Civilians to Fight Tigray Rebels
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s Afar region called on civilians Friday to take up arms against rebels from neighboring Tigray, signaling a potential escalation in fighting that has already displaced tens of thousands this week. “Every Afar should protect their land with any means available, whether by guns, sticks or stones,” the regional president, Awol […]
Food Aid Remains Out of Reach for Millions in Tigray
GENEVA – The World Food Program is renewing its appeal for unimpeded access to Ethiopia’s northern province of Tigray, where an estimated four million people are suffering from acute hunger. In a rare bit of good news, the World Food Program says the U.N. Humanitarian Air Service has transported 30 aid workers and urgently needed […]
GERD Will Continue to be Source of Cooperation
Millions of Ethiopians here and in the Diaspora are celebrating the second phase of filling GERD with greater ululations and jubilation. The dream of building a dam on the Blue Nile by King Lalibela and the protection of the catchment area of the River by Emperor Yohannes IV, the treacherous treaty that the British intended […]
Western Powers Are Attempting to Destroy Democracy in Ethiopia
(ENA) Western Powers Are Attempting to Destroy Democracy in Ethiopia By S. Dibaba With the election of President Joseph Bidden as the new leader of the US in which Citizens of Ethiopian origin and Ethiopians here were joyful, the US policy on Ethiopia regressed from bad to worse. Ethiopians expected better treatment from the Bidden […]