(ENA) The House of People’s Representatives (HPR) has approved 561.7 billion Birr budget for the Ethiopian Fiscal Year 2014. Responding to questions posed by members of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) about the budget today, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed emphasized the need for increasing productivity in key sectors and mobilizing domestic financial resources for […]
Best practices in job creation: Lessons from Africa [EN/AR]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The inability to find a means of income to generate a satisfying livelihood remains a problem across the globe. However, Africa’s unique and tumultuous past has created a problem much more entrenched than those facing many other emerging and developing markets. The situation has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, which could push […]
IGAD launches Hazards Watch for East Africa
The system was developed by a team of Programmers, Climate Scientists, Earth Observation and Systems specialists, as well as Marketing, Design Thinking and sectoral experts to meet the growing need of Risk Information due to increasing climate extremes. The East Africa Hazards Watch supports tracking extreme events such as drought, cyclones, pests (desert locust), heavy […]
Terrorist Group TPLF Destroys Tekeze Bridge
(ENA) Ethiopian State of Emergency Fact Check said the terrorist group TPLF have destroyed the Tekeze Bridge to intentionally limit assistance route in the region. The government of Ethiopia declared humanitarian ceasefire to help farmers in the region engage in farming activities during this planting season. However, rejecting the humanitarian ceasefire enacted in support of […]
Gov’t Stockpiled Emergency Food for Tigray, Distributed Agricultural Inputs, Say Officials
(ENA) The federal government has reportedly stored huge emergency food supplies that could be distributed to the needy and distributed over 638,000 quintals of fertilizer to farmers ahead of the rainy season in Tigray region. National Risk Management Commissioner, Mitiku Kassa told ENA yesterday that the government has stockpiled around 400,000 quintals of food and nutritious food […]
ENDF Mobilizes Armored Vehicle-launched Bridge to Make Tekeze Bridge Operational
(ENA) Ethiopian State of Emergency Fact Check said the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) has mobilized armored vehicle-launched bridge that makes the Tekeze Bridge, which was destroyed yesterday by the terrorist TPLF, operational. ENDF is also giving the bridge military protection, it was learned. According to the Ethiopian State of Emergency Fact Check, the bridge […]