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The African Fashion Business Summit 2021 aims at promoting African unity within the diversity of culture, clothing, and cousin kicked off today in Addis Ababa. The four-day Africa fashion reception is a platform for African designers to excel, to work together and to see how they can do business together, it was learned. Renowned designers […]

ETHIOPIA The newly arrived Representative undertook a 5-day field mission to Mekelle and Shire. During his mission, he met with UN agencies, cluster leads, IDPs/refugees and partners and visited IDP sites in Mekelle and Sebacare 4. Missions to Mai Aini refugee camp, returnees’ site in Adwa and IDP sites in Shire were also organized. Lack […]

Article 2 sub articles 1 and 7 of the UN Charter state that “The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members. The UN charter allows UN to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state when it is allowed by the specific Members. […]

WASHINGTON — When Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) started fighting in November 2020, a second front quickly opened online, where both sides seek to control the narrative.Social media became a battleground, with …

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians whose scale was covered up for decades, disappointing activists who hoped for an even stronger recognition of responsibility.   Macron told relatives of victims on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that crimes were […]

Marking World Food Day, the United Nations is warning the fight against world hunger is being lost and calling for action to improve food security for the world’s most vulnerable people.   In his message marking World Food Day (Oct. 16), United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for vigorous action and investments in strengthening […]