WFP estimates that a record 270 million people worldwide are acutely food insecure or at high risk this year, a 40 per cent jump from 2020. “High food prices are hunger’s new best friend. We already have conflict, climate and COVID-19 working together to push more people into hunger and misery. Now food prices have joined the deadly […]
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UN ready to promote ‘win-win solution’ for Blue Nile dam project
UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, reported that recent negotiations under the African Union (AU) have yielded little progress. The parties have been unable to agree a framework for engagement to settle outstanding issues, which include a dispute resolution mechanism as well as the management of the dam during protracted drought. […]
Interim Admin Calls on International Community to Condemn Horror Acts of TPLF in Tigray
(ENA) The Interim Administration of Tigray Region called on the United Nations, other aid Agencies and the international community to speak loud and condemn the evil and inhuman horror acts being conducted by TPLF in Tigray after the withdrawal of the Federal Security Forces. According to a statement issued by the Interim Administration today, the […]
Ethiopia Gains Diplomatic Victory at UNSC
As the second phase of filling GERD is just at the corner, Ethiopia gains diplomatic victory at the UNSC Another round of externalizing the issue of GERD and a conspiracy against Ethiopia’s legitimate right to use its water resources for the electrification of the country and sharing hydropower with brotherly African countries collapsed at the […]
House Ratifies Loan Agreements, Road Charters
(ENA) The House of People’s Representatives (HPR) has ratified four loan agreements between Ethiopia and the International Development Association, and endorsed two road charter proclamations, including the African Road Safety Charter and United Nations Convention on Road Traffic today. The approved loan agreements would help the country to execute projects, including financing Ethiopian digital foundation […]
African Dev’t Bank Secures over 170 Mln USD for Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) Projects
(ENA) The Board of Green Climate Fund has approved 170.9 million USD for African Development Bank’s Leveraging Energy Access Finance Framework (LEAF) program. LEAF aims to unlock commercial and local-currency financing for decentralized renewable energy (DRE) projects in six program countries: Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Tunisia. The Green Climate Fund’s financing is part […]