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WEEKEND READING – By Abba Mela – “Lemme go. I am an American” used to mean a lot for any American who announces his US citizenship in order to get out of a “tight spot” in any African country just a couple of decades ago. Even us, as Naturalized Ethiopian-American citizens were able to call […]
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The spokesperson of Tigray Peoples Liberation (TPLF), Getachew Reda, revealed that they are advised by the United States Government to leave Tigray expanding their invasion and capture the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.
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Ambassador Lencho Bati, who was advisor to the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, now serving as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia said that the former U.S. President Trump has called Prime Minister Abiy urging to give him the Blackbox of the crushed Boeing airplane in Ethiopia.
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Weekend reading – By Andualem Sisay Gessesse – On Thursday afternoon this week, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a meeting about the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The issue was brought to UNSC by the Egypt and Sudan, the downstream countries of the Nile basin. The two countries claimed that GERD has posed […]
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By Aregu Balleh- About a year ago President Trump contested the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as the winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize claiming, that he, not Prime Minister Abiy, deserved the prize.
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The Ministry of Health of Ethiopia said a total of 41 patients have recovered from coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic so far.
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BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – They say every challenge brings opportunities. For the past few months we have been listening how COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic can be catastrophic to not only in the health of the people of this planet but also in social and economy of the world. Some fear that it will lead the […]
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Seven new countries /territories/areas including four African countries (Djibouti, Gambia, Zambia, Mauritius) have reported cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
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The Government of Ethiopia announced that it will continue the construction of Great Ethiopian Reconnaissance Dam (GERD) and starts filling water into the dam next July as previously scheduled.
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The Government of Ethiopia finally reached agreement with the Government of Egypt to fill water the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the wet season, generally from July to August, and will continue in September subject to certain conditions.
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Melakou Tegegn, Kampala- Uganda– As a famous Amharic saying has it, “Aya jibo satamehagn bilagn”; ostensibly the lamb said to this to the hyena who was saying all and sundry but dying to eat the lamb. In 1964, the Johnson administration in the US fabricated a story that goes in the history of falsified incidents […]
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Melakou Tegegn, Kampala– The Janjaweed is a militia force set up by Bashir in the late 1990s to terrorize the population of Southern Sudan from supporting the SPLA. They committed untold crimes against the civilian population ostensibly for harbouring the forces of SPLA, a liberation movement at the time.
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The United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is set to lead a delegation from the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) on a fact-finding mission to Ghana later this month.
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President Donald J. Trump announced today the lifting of travel restrictions for Chadian nationals following a period of review in which the Government of Chad improved their identity-management and information sharing practices.
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