Executive summary Introduction: The project Berchi – “Be Strong!” in Amharic, fully named “Claiming Rights – Promoting Gender Equality: Women’s empowerment and male engagement for gender transformation in post-conflict and chronically food-insecure settings of Ethiopia” was an Austrian Development Agency (ADA)- and CARE Austria-funded project and was implemented during the period of 2013 to 2015. […]
Dawa Zone Rapid Draught Assessment Report October 2021
Executive summary This report summarizes the findings of a joint assessment undertaken to the server drought affected woredas Dawa zone of Somali region. The Assessment was undertaken between, 25-29, October, 2021. The assessment team was led by dawa zone deputy head administration, dawa zone prosperity party head office together with zonal disaster risk management focal […]
Ethiopian Launches First Sea-Air Cargo
The first Sea-Air Cargo Operation that discharges 17 tons of electeonic and home appliances from Shenzen to Lagos & Kano in Nigeria via Djibouti is launched yesterday. According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first Sea-Air Cargo Operation was launched with the presence of the Chairperson of Djibouti Ports and Free zone Authority, Aboubaker Omar […]
Ethiopia’s Open Up to New Telecom Operators Enhances Digital Economy: Officials
Ethiopia’s opening up of telecommunication industry for new telecom service operators will facilitate its digital transformation efforts and attract related businesses, Innovation and Technology Digital Transformation Program Director Abiyot Bayou said. Following Ethiopia’s telecom liberalization move, the global consortium made up of Safaricom, Vodafone, Japan’s Sumitomo, and UK finance agency CDC Group was awarded telecom […]
Global Powers Concerned about Ethiopia for Sake of Geopolitical interest: A Journalist
Western global powers are mostly concerned about Ethiopia only for the sake of their own geopolitical interest in the horn region, the Ethiopian-American journalist Hermela Aregawi said. Hermela Aregawi is an Ethiopian-American journalist reporting for global media outlets such as Aljazeera America, the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, and the young Turks on current TV, […]
Climate change is already hitting Africa’s livestock. Here’s how COP26 can help
It’s a common scene across many African countries’ rural areas: cows grazing peacefully. But, by 2050, heat stress induced by climate change may drastically alter this familiar picture. New findings from the International Livestock Research Institute show that, unless massive adaptation measures are put in place, the number of extreme heat events driven by climate change – […]