Media reports of the West about the security situation in Ethiopia and their baleful framing entirely contradictory to the reality on the ground, Americans visiting Ethiopia told ENA. The US citizens who were approached by the news agency during their visit in Addis Ababa revealed that the information they heard over the media outlets in […]
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African Leaders to Discuss on Ways of Financing Post-COVID-19 Recovery, Development
African Heads of State, ministers, leaders of the private sector, development actors and academics will be gathering in Cabo Verde from 2 to 4 December for the African Economic Conference. Developing new ways of financing the post-COVID-19 recovery and accelerating development in Africa will be the focus of many conversations in this year’s flagship economic […]
Religion was once Ethiopia’s saviour. What it can do to pull the nation from the brink
Ethiopia is at war with itself —- all over again. Again, it is in the global media spotlight for the wrong reasons: war, displacement, rape, and killings. A nation with a long but turbulent history and a rich religious heritage has struggled to shrug off the vices holding it back from moving forward. This, however, is […]
Ethiopia: Mass arbitrary arrests target Tigrayans, says UN rights office
Over the past week, mass arrests of people reportedly of Tigrayan origin have continued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and elsewhere, the UN rights office said on Tuesday. The alert from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) comes as the World Food Programme (WFP) described the aid situation for vulnerable people in Tigray as “hand-to-mouth”. Citing reports, OHCHR said that at least 1,000 individuals are believed […]
UN Allocates $40 Million from Emergency Funds to Humanitarian Response in Ethiopia
(New York, 15 November 2021): UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths today allocated US$25 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support life-saving humanitarian assistance and protection of civilians in Ethiopia. A $15 million allocation from the country-based Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF) was also announced, increasing the total injection of new resources to Ethiopia […]
UNFPA Ethiopia Response to the Northern Ethiopia crisis – Situation report (1-15 October 2021)
Background After almost one year of conflict, the political dynamics across Northern Ethiopia changed dramatically on June 28 following the unilateral declaration of ceasefire by the Federal Government with the subsequent withdrawal of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and the control of most areas of Tigray region by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). […]