The staff and medical professionals working in the College of Health Sciences (CHS) of Addis Ababa University (AAU) donated blood under the motto of `Our Blood for Our People` at a ceremony held in the College yesterday, the 8th of November 2021. Dr. Rahel Argaw, Medical Service Director at CHS, Black Lion Specialized Hospital, in her […]
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UN Says 16 Staff, Dependents Detained in Ethiopia
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations said Tuesday that 22 of its Ethiopian national staff were detained by the federal government in Addis Ababa, following raids reportedly targeting ethnic Tigrayans. Six of the U.N. staffers have been released. “We are of course actively working with the government of Ethiopia to secure their immediate release,” U.N. spokesperson […]
UN envoy warns of spreading civil war in Ethiopia
“The fighting places, the future of the country and its people as well as the stability of the wider Horn of Africa region in grave uncertainty in recent days.” With violence escalating in northern Ethiopia, the United Nations has warned of a spreading civil war in the country. UN political affairs envoy, Rosemary DiCarlo said […]
UN Official: Conflict In Northern Ethiopia Places Country In Uncertainty
UN Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned yesterday that, the conflict in northern Ethiopia places the future of the country and its people in grave uncertainty. “The year-long conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has reached disastrous proportions. The fighting places the future of the country and its people, as well as, the […]
Kenya’s mega-railway project leaves society more unequal than before
In 2014, Kenya started to construct a new railway to connect the Mombasa Port with the interior and on to landlocked Uganda and Rwanda. Today the Standard Gauge Railway stops abruptly at Naivasha, 120km northwest of Nairobi. Ultimately it is planned to reach the border with Uganda at Malaba, helping to connect East Africa’s regional transport and trade. […]
Amnesty International Report Demands Compensation for Uganda’s Benet People
KAMPALA — A report by Amnesty International documents several violent forced evictions in Uganda of the Benet indigenous people. Affected members of the community narrate details of the eviction from their ancestral land saying it took place without notice and they are asking the Ugandan government to compensate them. More than a decade after […]