A team of four pharmacy students from Addis Ababa University (AAU) College of Health Sciences (CHS) got international recognition for innovating food solutions from fava bean and barley to alleviate child malnutrition and improper dietary practices. Naol Adugna, one of the nutritionalists, said that their observation of many children prone to stunting and other problems […]
Month: November 2021
Ethiopia: Tigrayans targeted in fresh wave of ethnically motivated detentions in Addis Ababa
Security forces in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have targeted Tigrayans, including children and the elderly, with arbitrary arrests and mass detentions as part of an escalating crackdown, Amnesty International said today. Most detainees are being held without charge or access to a lawyer. The arrests have intensified since the government declared a state of […]
UN Recap: November 7-12, 2021
UN staffers detained in Ethiopia Ethiopia’s federal government detained nearly two dozen of its nationals who work for the United Nations in the capital, Addis Ababa, earlier this week. More than 70 truck drivers contracted to drive humanitarian assistance into the northern Tigray region for the U.N. and international NGOs were also rounded up in […]
US Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Eritrean Military, Ruling Party, Officials
The United States has imposed new sanctions on Eritrea’s military, ruling party and two senior government officials in connection with Eritrea’s role in the Ethiopian conflict. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it had imposed sanctions on the Eritrean Defense Force, whose soldiers have fought in […]
Completion of GERD Would Avail Clean, Affordable Energy & Strengthen Cooperation: Experts Power will Strengthen Economic ties, Cooperation in Africa: Experts
Ethiopia’s combined electric power, after the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) goes operational, will be a source of affordable and clean energy for many African countries and strengthen economic ties and cooperation, water experts said. GERD Negotiating Team Member, Yakob Arsano told ENA that Ethiopia’s electric power potential from hydro dams would exponentially increase to […]
Reuters Report on Emergency Proclamation Misleading: Fact Check
The report by Reuters claiming that the State of Emergency (SoE) proclamation compels citizens to hold ID cards which disclose their ethnicity is misleading and misrepresents the requirements of the proclamation, according to Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check. The State of Emergency allows citizens to make use of various alternative identity documents, including driver’s license, […]