The African Development Bank has decided to withdraw all its international staff from Ethiopia immediately, following an attack by the country’s security forces. “These decisions follow the recent breach of diplomatic protocol and assault by Ethiopian security forces on two of the African Development Bank’s international members of staff,” said AfDB in a statement on Wednesday night. The African Development Bank formally communicated with the government of Ethiopia through an official note verbale on 6 November requesting a full and transparent investigation into the incident. The Bank President said, “the October incident continues to cause much anxiety across the African Development Bank Group and especially among staff at the Ethiopia country office. He said that the African Development Bank remains committed to supporting the country’s socio economic development.

Tel Aviv [Israel], December 21 (ANI/TPS): Israel's Ministry of Labor and its Innovation Authority announced plans to finance programmes for the training and placement of Ethiopians in the country's high-tech industry. Israel is known as a centre of high-tech entrepreneurship, so much so that the country has been dubbed "Startup Nation." The winners are: 8200 Alumni Association, Tech-Career and a program in collaboration with Reichman University. This, said the ministry, is part of the government's employment goals in the field of integrating Ethiopians into quality employment as well as its goals in the field of responding to the shortage of skilled manpower in the high-tech industry. Israel Ozan, Director General of the Ministry of Labor: "Our future depends to a large extent on the ability of people from different sectors to find themselves in positions with high wages and productivity" (ANI/TPS)

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ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, 20 December 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-The African Development Bank has decided to withdraw all its international staff from Ethiopia immediately. These decisions follow the recent breach of diplomatic protocol and assault by Ethiopian security forces on two of the African Development Bank’s international members of staff. The African Development Bank formally communicated with the government of Ethiopia through an official note verbale on 6 November requesting a full and transparent investigation into the incident. The Bank President said, “the October incident continues to cause much anxiety across the African Development Bank Group and especially among staff at the Ethiopia country office. He said that the African Development Bank remains committed to supporting the country’s socioeconomic development.

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Among the complications of the years-long disagreement between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile is that everyone involved has legitimate concerns. The dam is an impressive 1,800 metres long and 145 metres high, and has a total volume of 74,000 million cubic metres. Addis Ababa regards the dam as an important source of national pride and its operation a matter of national sovereignty. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, second right, cuts a ribbon during a ceremony to mark the first power generation at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on February 20, 2022. According to a 2021 report from Unicef, Egypt also faces an annual water deficit of about seven billion cubic metres and the country could run out of water by 2025.

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from ADANE BIKILA in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaEthiopia BureauADDIS ABABA, (CAJ News) – THE African Development Bank’s (AfDB) withdrawal of its international staff in Ethiopia is a new twist in the fallout between the financier and the continent’s most iconic country. Adesina said the assessment from the AfDB delegation indicates that the situation is still not yet resolved in a satisfactory manner. “It also does not provide full confidence that all the African Development Bank’s employees feel safe and secure to carry out their duties and move around the country without fear of harassment,” he said. “The incident has also raised concerns among the Bank’s shareholders, other multilateral development banks, international financial institutions, the broader diplomatic community, and other stakeholders. Locally- recruited staff will continue their work and remain in the full employment of the bank.

The African Development Bank has withdrawn its international staff from Ethiopia over what it described as a breach of diplomatic protocol and an assault on two of its workers. In a Wednesday statement, AfDB said measures would not affect nationally recruited staff from Ethiopia who would continue their work and remain in full employment of the Bank. These decisions follow the recent breach of diplomatic protocol and assault by Ethiopian security forces on two of the African Development Bank’s international members of staff. “Specifically, on October 31, 2023, two Addis Ababa-based staff members were unlawfully arrested, physically assaulted, and detained for hours without charge or any official explanation. It added that on learning of the incident, AfDB President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, immediately contacted the highest levels of authority in the Ethiopian government, following which the Bank’s two staff members were released.

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The population policy document will not be ready at the planned timeEthiopian Policy Studies Institute (Photo : Social Media)By Staff ReporterADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA)- The Policy Studies Institute (PSI) disclosed here that it was unable to conduct a national study due to the conflicts and security problems being witnessed in different parts of the country, sources said. The Director General said that due to the security problem, his Institute has been forced to focus only on Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa Cities. Apart from the security problem, the regional states are not reportedly willing to cooperate with the institute. Fitsum announced that the reason for the low achievement was the security problem in the mining sector and the spread of illegal trade in agricultural products. __Join our Telegram Channel : t.me/borkenaLike borkena on FacebookAdd your business to Ethiopian Business Listing / Ethiopian Business DirectoryJoin the conversation.

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs links failure of fourth round of GERD negotiation to Egypt’s colonial era stanceborkenaEthiopia on Tuesday issued a statement regarding the fourth round of GERD negotiation with Egypt and Sudan which was taking place in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa between December 17-19. The negotiations have helped the three countries to have an in-depth discussion on the major issues of difference. It is not meant to foreclose Ethiopia`s rights on the utilization of the waters of the Nile. The Agreement on the Declaration of Principles of 2015 signed by the three countries provides the basis for this negotiation. After the conclusion of the fourth round of the negotiation, Egypt has issued a statement that violates the UN Charter and the Constitutive Act of the African Union.

Adanech Abiebie, Mayor (Photo : SM/File)By Staff ReporterADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA) – Institutions of Addis Ababa City Administration that have their focus on organizational research do not take knowledge or work experience as priority for new entrants who apply for approved positions. Indicating the ethnicity of the applicant is very important for the result, it is stated in the form. Also, a clear instruction has been given in writing that ethnicity is mandatory on the human resources data collection form for the assignment. The Addis Ababa City Administration is reportedly ready to fire the existing employees and replace them with OPDO cadres under the pretext of a placement test. __Join our Telegram Channel : t.me/borkenaLike borkena on FacebookAdd your business to Ethiopian Business Listing / Ethiopian Business DirectoryJoin the conversation.

ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia and Egypt have traded blame for the failure of a fourth round of negotiations aimed at resolving a long-running dispute over a controversial mega-dam built by Addis Ababa on the Nile. Negotiations between Ethiopia and downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan have yet to produce an agreement since construction of the $4.2 billion project began in 2011. A fourth round of talks was held between Sunday and Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital. The dam is central to Ethiopia's development plans, and in February 2022 Addis Ababa announced that it had begun generating electricity for the first time. At full capacity, the huge dam -- 1.8 kilometres long and 145 metres high -- could generate more than 5,000 megawatts.

Five years of work by a primarily Ethiopian team of researchers and translators, as well as Princeton undergraduate students, has culminated in the Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) website, a project in the digital humanities. "But few have studied the African representations of the Virgin Mary, which span from the 200s into the present," Belcher said. Although Worku grew up listening to the Marian stories, working on the PEMM project revealed new insights and discoveries. Belcher's scholarship focuses on medieval and early modern British and African literature. Her research for the PEMM project formally began in 2018, with project managers Evgeniia Lambrinaki and then Blaine Kebede.