The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) announced today that the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the country, the positivity rate, mounting severe cases and high death rates are exceedingly concerning. EPHI Emergency Operation Center Deputy Incident Manager, Dr. Mikyas Teferi said 227 people have died due to the COVID-19 pandemic during the past week alone. […]
Continue ReadingStates Forging ‘Deliberately Ambiguous’ Security Cooperation Accords to Justify Enforced Disappearance, Committee Chair Warns Impediments to freedom of expression for women, discrimination against migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic and an uptick in enforced disappearances were among the concerns addressed by human rights experts in the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as delegates raised questions […]
Continue ReadingMEKELLE, ETHIOPIA/WASHINGTON — Witnesses in Ethiopia’s Tigray region said at least two people were killed and several others were injured in two airstrikes Monday carried out by government forces on the regional capital, Mekelle. Residents who spoke to VOA’s Tigrigna Service said the airstrikes hit two areas: the Enderta district in the morning and the […]
Continue ReadingThe Ethiopia Health Extension Program has proved more effective in terms of achieving the respective desired goals than the Optimizing Health Extension Program (OHEP) intervention introduced from 2016 to 2019 in selected Woredas, findings revealed. According to the findings based on research carrried out in 56 Woredas of Amhara, Oromia, SNNP and Tigray regional states, […]
Continue ReadingChairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki Mahamat urged member countries to enhance their inter-governmental and multilateral cooperation in order to realize the prosperity of the continent. The 39th ordinary session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council, which comprises ministers of the African countries, kicked off today in Ethiopia’s Capital Addis Ababa. […]
Continue ReadingThe Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will regulate the water flow of Nile River and reduce flooding risks and sedimentation in downstream countries, Arba Minch University Water Resource Research Center Director Samuel Degalo said. The director told ENA that the dam will benefit the downstream countries, especially Sudan, by regulating the water flow and sediments. […]
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