UNHCR has responded to the needs of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Ethiopia since 2018. In 2021 so far, UNHCR together with its partners, has reached over 1 million IDPs in nine regions of Ethiopia with impactful interventions to improve their protection and support their durable solutions. In response to the staggering rise of internal […]
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Ethiopia’s Strong Cultural Asset Crucial to Make Nation Stronger, Heal Entire Challenges: Prof. Fitz-Gerald
Ethiopia’s strong culture defined by decency, civility, nobility, pride and its social capital needs to be preserved and protected, Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald said. University of Waterloo Professor, Ann Fitz-Gerald told ENA that changing the current situation in Ethiopia into very positive, constructive, progressive and productive way is not going to happen overnight. Many conversations have […]
Foreign Affairs Council: Press remarks by High Representative Josep Borrell upon arrival
Today it is going to be a very busy day for us. First, we are going to have the Foreign Affairs Council. After [this] we are going to have the meeting with the Ministers of the Eastern Partnership. And after [this, we will have the] Jumbo meeting with Foreign and Defense Ministers to start talking about the Strategic Compass. On the Foreign Affairs Ministers: we are going to review the whole set […]
Congo’s Self-Taught Guitarmaker Caters to the Stars
In a tin shed in the backstreets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, a barefoot 61-year old Jean-Luther Misoko Nzalayala, aka Socklo, hacks with a machete at a lump of wood that is starting to resemble the neck of a guitar. Later, he hammers bits of white plastic chair into it as inlay to […]
Two Ugandan Soldiers Sentenced to Death in Somalia
Two Ugandan People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have been sentenced to death and three others to 39 years in jail for the deaths of civilians. “A Ugandan military tribunal sitting in Mogadishu has found the two officers guilty of intentionally killing civilians near Golweyne neighborhood of […]
Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ Shifts Focus to Contain Sahara
KEBEMER, SENEGAL — The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a more than 8,000 kilometer-line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara Desert as climate change swept the sands south. The project called the Great Green Wall began in 2007 with a vision […]