Amnesty International disclosed today that women from the town of Nifas Mewcha in Ethiopia’s Amhara region were raped by fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) during the group’s attack on the town in mid-August 2021. According to Amnesty International, survivors have rape at gunpoint, robbery, and subjection to physical and verbal assaults by […]
Continue ReadingThe Treaty for the Establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) entered into force as of November 2021, the African Union Commission disclosed. The African Medicines Agency is expected to open a new chapter for harmonization and regulation of the African pharmaceutical landscape, across the continent and the efforts to improve weak regulatory systems, it […]
Continue ReadingAN ethnic nationalist paramilitary group has raped, robbed and subjected women to physical and verbal assaults. This as the crisis in northern Ethiopia spills to neighbouring regions. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is accused of the crimes as well as destroying and looting medical facilities as the fighting moved to the Afar and Amhara […]
Continue ReadingJEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Q Good afternoon! (Laughter.) JEAN-PIERRE: I’m like, “Geez, I’m all by myself up here.” (Laughter.) Okay. So, we have another special guest joining us today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who is here to highlight how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will help close the digital divide in America for more than 30 […]
Continue Reading8th November, 2021 (Entebbe, Uganda): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) inaugurated the regional Cross Border Health Digitalization Initiative under the EU-IGAD COVID-19 regional COVID-19 response in Entebbe, Uganda. The meeting was opened by Dr. Ahmed Bashir the lead on digital innovations at IGAD, on behalf of the Director of Health Social Division (HSD), Madame Fathia Alwan. […]
Continue ReadingEthiopian Civil Service University, Center for Research in Ethics and Integrity (CREI) held its 17th in-campus Seminar on November 4, 2021, at Abay Hall. The seminar was held under the theme of “Linguistic Pluralism and Nation-Building in Ethiopia” The speaker in the seminar, Professor Zelalem Liyew, from Addis Ababa University, explained the relation and interconnection […]
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