Speaking in Geneva, Martin Griffiths highlighted the urgency of the situation for all those affected in the northern Ethiopian region, after eight months of fighting between Government forces and those loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Earlier this week, the UN senior official warned that 200,000 people had been displaced by fighting in neighbouring […]
Month: August 2021
Ethiopia and Algeria set up a joint business council
The Business Council, which is believed to boost all-round economic relations between Ethiopia and Algeria, was established by an online signing ceremony between the two countries’ Chambers of Commerce and Industry. In his opening remarks, Algerian Minister of Commerce, Kemal Razig, said that the two countries have strong diplomatic ties and that their government is […]
Professionals from 5 Ethiopian Universities trained on Mathematics Textbook Development by MoE and JICA
A technical workshop was conducted by MoE/ JICA MUST Project[1] on July 12, 2021, for about 20 mathematics textbook writers, illustrators and designers, located in Bishoftu and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) with experts in Japan. It was part of a three-day workshop organized by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Hawassa University on Grade 9 to 12 […]
Haramaya University Conducted a Seedling Planting Program on Its Main Campus
The Postgraduate Program Directorate of Haramaya University conducted a planting of more than 2000 seedlings by mobilizing the newly arrived senior non-regular summer program students and the university community on morning August 04, 2021. The Associate Director for the Non-regular Postgraduate Program Directorate, Mr. Birhanu Sintayehu, explained that more than 400 non-regular (summer) students and […]
USAID Head Says Ethiopia’s Humanitarian Situation Growing Worse
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development highlighted what she called “desperate humanitarian needs that are growing even more acute with every passing day” during talks Wednesday with officials in Ethiopia. The United States, United Nations and others are calling for an end to the conflict in the Tigray region, which has caused […]
World Bank, UN Say Pandemic is Pushing Displaced People to Take Extreme Survival Measures
GENEVA – World Bank-U.N. refugee agency survey in eight developing countries finds the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened conditions for forcibly displaced people, pushing them to take extreme measures to survive. The data was collected from 90,000 phone interviews in Bangladesh, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kenya, Uganda and Yemen. An analysis of the […]