Insufficient water for washing is likely to worsen the coronavirus in the poorest nations. There’s a better way forward. By Alan Nicol | May 12, 2020, 3:44 PM Foreign Policy Days after he shared images of municipal workers disinfecting the…
8 people die due to COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, while 208 others recover The number of novel coronavirus cases in Ethiopia passed 1,000 people, according to official data Saturday. According to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) data, 95…
In the tradition of Eastern and Western patriotic and pastoral poets (Elisheva Bikhovski, Darwish, Frost, Bejan Matur, Tagore, and Tennyson) poet-playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin’s seminal work እሳት ወይ አበባ Esat woy Ababa Blaze or Bloom (2007) is replete with references to…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) produced a report on the 5th of February 2020 titled Agricultural Biotechnology Annual Report (ET 2019-0010). The report says that the Ethiopian government has approved the commercialization of Bt Cotton and the Confined…
I am not a legal scholar, still less a constitutional expert. I wrote this piece on constitutional crisis to assess the consistency of the reactions of opposition parties to the four alternatives that the government presented, less so to provide…
Demonstrations took place across several towns of the Tigray regional state The Tigray Communication Affairs Bureau denied reports of public protests Chairman of opposition party Arena Tigray, Abraha Desta said “unknown persons” tried to kidnap him in Mekele on Sunday…
Gunmen in Guji zone of Oromia regional state have killed twelve Oromia police members in the restive zone, a local official told BBC Amharic. Malicha Dika, Guji Zone Vice Administrator, told the BBC that the incident occurred in Gumi Eldelo…
Mongabay, May 19, 2020 Maheder Haileselassie Tadese SIDAMA, Ethiopia — For Lidya Ashango and 14 million other Ethiopians, the false banana plant widely known as enset is a staple food and, on many occasions, a supplementary source of income. But…
The victim is being remembered by his friends as an outgoing person and father a three-year-old girl A police officer fatally shot a man who reportedly defied coronavirus regulations in Mekele town, capital of Tigray region, BBC Tigrinya reported. The…
An army pilot who deserted Djibouti has been turned away by Ethiopia while seeking asylum Djiboutian activists and exiled political figures have condemned Ethiopia’s forced return of an asylum seeker to Djibouti. The man, identified as Lieutenant Fouad Youssouf Ali,…