Sweeping powers and a transition on ice: Pandemic politics in Ethiopia – African Arguments 09:45
BY YOSEPH BADWAZA APRIL 16, 20200 Ethiopia’s state of emergency gives it both vague wide-ranging powers and an impending political headache. What will the COVID-19 pandemic mean for politics in Ethiopia? Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Tesfaye On 8 April, Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers took the dramatic step of declaring a national five-month state of emergency. This was the latest of […]
Ethiopian Airlines Will Turn to State if Crisis Lasts Until July – BNN Bloomberg 12:18
Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Ethiopian Airlines Group will seek help from the state if the coronavirus crisis impact on global travel persists for more than three months. Africa’s biggest airline can survive off cargo services until early July, Chief Executive Officer Tewolde GebreMariam told reporters on Wednesday. “If it goes beyond that and worsens, […]
Ethiopia: Muslims, Christians join to fight COVID-19 – Yeni Şafak 03:38
Ethiopian government relaxed broadcast rules to allow religious leaders to lead prayers on national TV News Service10:33 April 16, 2020AA While in other parts of the world, authorities labored to convince some religious groups about the dangers of the pandemic, in Ethiopia two major religions Christianity and Islam took no time to join the fight […]
Ethiopia against Trump’s decision to suspend WHO funding – TASS 08:52
Since May 2017, the WHO has been led by former Ethiopian Health Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. The Ethiopian government is categorically against the decision made by US President Donald Trump to suspend the funding of the World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopian Ambassador to Moscow Alemayehu Tegenu Aargau told TASS on Thursday. […]
Lebanon’s coronavirus lockdown leaves migrant women penniless and stranded – Reuters 13:35
Emeline Wuilbercq, Ban Barkawi ADDIS ABABA/AMMAN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Domestic worker Kurate only went to Lebanon so she could earn money to support her family in Ethiopia. Now she is stuck there with no work, no income – and no way of getting home to them. Since Lebanon closed its borders in one of the […]
በድህነትና በጦርነት የወደመው ጎንደር – ሁሉም ነገር ወረርሽኙን ለመከላክል ይዋል – አክሎግ ቢራራ (ዶር)
SourceURL:https://ecadforum.com/Amharic/archives/19692/ በድህነትና በጦርነት የወደመው ጎንደር – ሁሉም ነገር ወረርሽኙን ለመከላክል ይዋል April 16, 2020 254 በ March 25, 2014, Al-Jazeera በጥናት ተደግፎ ለዓለም ያሰራጨው ቪዲዮ ይዘት እስካሁን ድረስ በመሬት ላይ የሚታይ የህዝብ ኑሮ ለውጥ እንዲመጣ አላደረገም። ይህ “Amhara region, not only the poorest in Ethiopia but the poorest in the world” ተብሎ የተሰየመው የጥልቅ ድህነት […]
News: EOTC requests emergency decree loosening on gathering on Maundy Thursday, Easter Sunday
April 16, 2020 Source: http://addisstandard.com Mahlet Fasil @MahletFasil Addis Abeba, April 16/2020 – In a letter written yesterday April 15 and was addressed to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, His Holiness Abune Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, (EOTC), requested the loosening of the gathering regulations in Ethiopia’s COVID-19 State of Emergency on Maundy […]
Ethiopian police hold journalist Yayesew Shimelis pending terrorism investigation – Committee to Protect Journalists 15:24
SourceURL:https://cpj.org/2020/04/ethiopian-police-hold-journalist-yayesew-shimelis-.php Ethiopian police hold journalist Yayesew Shimelis pending terrorism investigation – Committee to Protect Journalists Ethiopian police hold journalist Yayesew Shimelis pending terrorism investigation April 16, 2020 3:10 PM ET Nairobi, April 16, 2020 — In response to Ethiopian authorities’ new terrorism allegations against broadcast journalist Yayesew Shimelis today, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued […]
Ethiopia Poverty Assessment: What can it tell us about likely effects of the coronavirus? The World Bank 18:33
Tom Bundervoet Arden Finn |April 16, 2020 The public launch of a World Bank poverty assessment is usually a big event. Senior officials from government, ministers, and sometimes even presidents come together with researchers, development partners, and academics to discuss the latest poverty trends in a country and measures that could speed up poverty reduction. […]
China and Ethiopia, Part 4: Mekelle Industrial Park – The Diplomat 09:58
Ethiopia, with dreams of being a textile and apparel manufacturing hub, is following China’s blueprint for industrial parks. By Istvan Tarrosy, Zoltán Vörös, and Seife Hailu Gebreslassie April 16, 2020 In 2018 and 2019 we published three articles about transportation projects in Ethiopia, a key manifestation of China’s Africa policy in the country: the first […]