Haramaya University announced that it has donated 100,000 eye glasses that worth three hundred million birr to the hospitals of East & West Hararghe zones, Harari Regional State, Dire Dawa City Administration and Somali Regional State. Haramaya University’s Vice President of Community Service and Enterprise Development, Dr. Yisak Yusuf, explained that the University is fulfilling […]
Continue ReadingIn mid-November 2022 the eight billionth person will be born, according to the United Nations. In its analysis of this milestone, the UN makes two key observations. The first is that the global population has been expanding at its slowest rate since 1950. The growth rate dropped below 1% in 2020, a trend that is likely […]
Continue ReadingMODERATOR: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to today’s call on the situation in Ethiopia. Today’s call is on background to a senior State Department official and embargoed until its conclusion. We are joined – for your information and not for reporting, we are joined today by [Senior State Department Official] who will be referred to hereafter […]
Continue ReadingADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told lawmakers in parliament he is committed to a peace deal struck with Tigrayan leadership in South Africa earlier this month to end two years of deadly conflict in northern Tigray region. In his address to parliament Tuesday, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the warring parties […]
Continue ReadingThe latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. All times EDT. 11:30 p.m.: The governor of the Belgorod region of southern Russia said on Tuesday that two people had been killed and three wounded by shelling in a town near the border with Ukraine, Reuters reported. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov gave no further details of the incident […]
Continue ReadingThe world’s population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, according to a United Nations projection, with much of the growth coming from developing nations in Africa. Among them is Nigeria, where resources are already stretched to the limit. More than 15 million people in Lagos compete for everything from electricity […]
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