Journalist Tesfalem Waldyes, the founder and editor-in-chief of Ethiopia Insider, an Ethiopian news and analysis website, was released Tuesday after spending three days in police custody. “I just talked to him,” said Eshete Bekele, a journalist with Deutsche Welle’s Amharic service and Tesfalem’s former colleague. “He just got out,” he told VOA. Prior to his […]
Day: October 5, 2021
Food Shortages Increasing as Conflict Spreads in Northern Ethiopia
GENEVA — The World Food Program warns food insecurity and hunger are rising in northern Ethiopia as the conflict in Tigray spills over into neighboring regions. The U.N. food agency reports it has completed the first round of food distributions in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara and Afar provinces. The operation, which began in mid-August, has reached an […]
Food for the Hungry awarded $143M USAID grant to improve food security in poverty stricken Amhara Region
Amhara, Ethiopia International humanitarian organization, Food for the Hungry (FH), has been awarded a $143M grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs to implement their Poverty Reduced Sustainably in an Environment of Resilient and Vibrant Economy (PReSERVE) project in the Amhara Region, in northern Ethiopia. Through PReSERVE, FH […]
Is the resource curse hard-baked into African economies? China’s approach hints that it may not be
Countries with abundant natural resources – gold, diamonds, crude oil– often fail to transform that advantage into favourable development outcomes. This is known as the natural resource curse. Countries like Nigeria, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo are often cited as examples. Several explanations have been offered for the resource course. These include […]
President Isaias Congratulates Abiy on His Re-election as Prime Minister Ethiopia
President of the State of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, has sent a message of warmest congratulations to Abiy Ahmed on his re-election as Prime Minister of Ethiopia. In his message, President Isaias underlined: “Eritrea and Ethiopia have gone a long way in past three years to turn chapter of confrontation and hostility and lay groundwork for […]
African Leaders Express Support to Ethiopia
Addis Ababa Prominent African leaders who presided over the historic inauguration ceremony of the appointment of Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed voiced their congratulations and support for the country and the premier on a huge ceremony held at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa. Speaking on the occasion, president of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta […]