Addis Ababa University buys twenty latest Hyundai motor vehicles from Marathon Motors Engineering Private Limited Company with a price of 37.3 million birr. All the newly bought automobiles have arrived at AAU. Addis Ababa University Management received the cars on Saturday July, 31 2021. Ato Walelign Dessie, Procurement Administration Director at Addis Ababa University, said […]
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Bodies Found in River Between Ethiopia’s Tigray and Sudan
NAIROBI – A Sudanese official says local authorities in Kassala province have found around 50 bodies, apparently people fleeing the war in neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region, floating in the river between the countries over the past week, some with gunshot wounds or their hands bound. The official said Monday a forensic investigation is needed to […]
UN: Fighting Displaces 200,000 in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
ADDIS ABABA – United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday 200,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Ethiopia’s Amhara region and 54,000 in its Afar region. In recent weeks, fighting has spread into the two regions neighboring Tigray, where a war erupted eight months ago between Ethiopia’s central government and the Tigray […]
Ethiopia Suspends Work of Two Aid Groups Active in Tigray
NAIROBI – Two international aid groups said Tuesday that the Ethiopian government had suspended part or all of their operations, while the United Nations humanitarian chief warned Ethiopian authorities that blanket accusations against aid workers in the country’s embattled Tigray region and elsewhere are dangerous and must stop. Martin Griffiths spoke to reporters amid a […]
Africa can prevent Ethiopia from going down Rwanda’s path: here’s how
When Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2019, I congratulated him in a public US and Africa dialogue forum. I thought he deserved the prize, given what he had done. In particular he showed a calm and responsible interest in listening to all community grievances to avoid outbursts of war. […]
700-plus healthcare workers and patients killed in attacks on facilities: WHO
The Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care from 2018 to 2020, recorded data on attacks on health workers, patients, supplies, ambulances and facilities in 17 emergency-affected countries and fragile settings. Countries at risk These included Ethiopia, Yemen, Syria, Mozambique, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian territory, Myanmar, Central African Republic, and Somalia, among others. “We are deeply concerned that hundreds […]