United States suspends food assistance to Ethiopia’s Tigray region
United States suspends food assistance to Ethiopia’s Tigray region days after similar move by EU Ethiopian food aid was being diverted, sold on the local market The United States Agency for International Development suspended all food assistance to the northern Ethiopian…
Lt. Colonel Abdisa Aga who fought both Mussolini and Hitler.
The unsung #Ethiopia hero, who fought both Mussolini and Hitler. Lt. Colonel Abdisa Aga. Born in 1919, a 14 year old Abdisa Aga left a missionary school he was attending in Qelem, Wollega, he trekked to #AddisAbaba, upon hearing the…
UN scrutinized the Ethiopian government officials over Human Rights
Justice Ministry grilled over crimes in northern Ethiopia Committee dissatisfied with official’s response Officials of the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice are scrutinized by the United Nations for failing to investigate allegations of human rights violations related to the war in…
USAID, WFP halt food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region over illegal market sales
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have suspended food aid to Ethiopia’s northernmost Tigray region, citing the diversion of shipments to illicit sales in local markets rather than reaching the people in need….
Ethiopia: One step forward two steps back in fighting torture
Joint Alternative Report submitted under article 19 of the Convention against Torture and OtherCruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 76th session of by the Committee Against Torture.Review of the second and third periodic report of the Federal Democratic Republic…
ABIY AHMED’S GOVERNMENT IS WAGING WAR ON THE AMHARA PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA
Released to all wire services and media outlets May 1, 2023 Washington D.C. The Federal Government of Ethiopia has declared an all-out war on the Amhara region after a relative peace following the devastating war in northern Ethiopia. There are…
News Analysis: Gov’t insists on digital payment despite complaints over chaotic, long queues at gas stations in Addis Abeba
The Ethiopian Ministry of Transport and Logistics has insisted on its decision to fully digitalize gas transactions in the capital Addis Abeba, despite long queues causing traffic jams and chaos at several gas stations in the city. Complaints are rising…
Ethiopian Airlines marks 50 years of service to UK
Ethiopian Airlines, the leading and fastest growing Airline in Africa, is celebrating the 50th year of the launch of its service to the UK in April 1973. Ethiopian Airlines’ inaugural flight arrived in London-Heathrow on a Boeing 720-B commencing with…
TPLF war made Ethiopia region’s biggest military spender in 2022
by JULIUS BARIGABA Ethiopia’s military budget rose biggest last year as the country battled the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), indicating an added cost of the two-year war with the rebels it has since signed a peace deal with. And…
Amnesty International and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) came after Ethiopian authorities!
Ethiopia urged to release detained journalists The calls this week by Amnesty International and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) came after Ethiopian authorities arrested at least seven journalists in a latest crackdown during the past two weeks following an anti-government…