Ministry of Education called on the U.S. to pressurize the terrorist TPLF to be held accountable for causing over 3 million children out of school following its destructions and provocations. Senior officials from the Ministry of Education including the Minister Dr. Getahun Mekuria have joined the “White Post Flood to White Palace” national youth movement […]
Month: September 2021
Seasonal precipitation predictions in Desert Locust summer/winter/spring breeding areas (October 2021 – March 2022)
A dry end is expected in the summer breeding areas of the northern Sahel from Mauritania to Eritrea during October compared to a wet end along the Indo-Pakistan border. While below-average rainfall is expected in northern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia during the last quarter of this year, October rains may be sufficient to allow one […]
IOM relocates over 17,000 people uprooted by conflict in northern Ethiopia to new shelter
Mekelle – After months in makeshift sites, with little food or water, thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by the conflict in Northern Ethiopia are being voluntarily relocated to new shelters by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The IDPs, many of whom have been forced to sleep in the open without hygiene facilities, […]
Protecting children during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond
Within weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak and preventive measures being imposed, it became clear that children would bear some of the pandemic’s most far-reaching consequences. Although apparently less affected by the virus itself, children are already suffering the hidden harms of this health crisis. Risks of violence and abuse have increased in lockdown situations, threatening […]
Executive Order on the Crisis in Ethiopia
Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order (E.O.) establishing a new sanctions regime that authorizes the United States to target any party responsible for or complicit in actions or policies that are prolonging the conflict in northern Ethiopia, and those that commit human rights abuses, or obstruct humanitarian access and a ceasefire. These sanctions are […]
US Authorizes Sanctions in Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict
UN Security Council, Regional Bodies, Other Countries Should Also Target Rights Abusers Laetitia Bader Director, Horn of Africa Today, United States President Joe Biden signed an executive order that allows the US government to impose sanctions against those responsible for a range of serious human rights abuses in northern Ethiopia. The order establishes a sanctions regime that […]