The Ethiopian Petroleum and Energy Authority (EPEA) announced that a petroleum control bill aimed at regulating and overseeing the operations of oil marketing and distribution was being drafted. The bill serves to establish a structured operating system and enable legal and administrative actions against any illicit activities discovered. According to Ato Lemesa Tulu, Director of Petroleum Products Market Research at the EPEA, a comprehensive legislation to address unlawful practices related to oil marketing, transportation, and related matters has been absent until now. The oil control bill has been developed to bridge this gap and ensure that oil marketing and distribution activities are carried out in a just and transparent manner. The authority aims to present the oil control bill to the House of Peoples’ Representatives for approval within the next six months.

"We discussed deepening our bilateral cooperation in areas such as agriculture, tourism, energy, and air connectivity," FM Gil said. On Monday, the Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil met with Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Demeke Mekonnen Hassen, in Addis Ababa. We discussed deepening our bilateral cooperation in areas such as agriculture, tourism, energy, and air connectivity," Gil shared on social media. Gil was accompanied by the Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Africa, Yuri Pimentel. Before visiting Ethiopia, the Venezuelan diplomat had visited the Republic of Congo.

The report, titled “A Death Sentence for My Father: Meta’s Contribution to Human Rights Abuses in Northern Ethiopia,” provides a distressing account of how Meta’s algorithmic systems and business practices may have contributed to the violence, particularly against people from Tigray. “Three years after its shocking failures in Myanmar, Meta has once again, through its content-shaping algorithms and data-driven business model, contributed to serious human rights abuses,” stated Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International Secretary General. Professor Meareg Amare’s story was featured on Addis Standard‘s print publication in November 2022, followed by a $2bn lawsuit filed against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, which in Nairobi, Kenya. The report concludes that, through both action and inaction, Meta actively contributed to serious human rights violations against the people of Tigray. Furthermore, it emphasizes the need for states to regulate big tech companies in order to protect human rights and ensure accountability for any human rights violations caused or enabled by these companies, whether through product design choices or a failure to implement proper safeguards.

Hours after the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted on Oct. 7, Bharat Nayak, a fact-checker in the east Indian state of Jharkhand, noticed a surge of disinformation and hate speech directed at Muslims on his dashboard of WhatsApp messages. “The content is very graphic, the messaging is extreme, and it gets forwarded many times, as there is no content moderation on WhatsApp” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. REAL-WORLD HARMSFailures of content moderation are not limited to the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict. They are a result of the hate speech online, said Marc Owen Jones, who researches disinformation in the Middle East. Yet despite heated conversations around the need for better content moderation, trust and safety is “resource-intensive, meaning that tackling the issue is a challenge for any platform,” said Yu-Lan Scholliers, head of product at Checkstep, a UK-based content moderation services firm.

Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) had secured aircraft for Nigeria Air (NWB, Lagos), the planned joint venture national airline that remains on hold pending re-assessment by new Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo and legal action by the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON). In July 2022, a consortium led by Ethiopian Airlines won a tender process for a 51/49 public-private partnership (PPP) with the federal government. Relating the background, Tasew said: "Ethiopian Airlines didn't have any intention or plan to set up an airline in Nigeria. He said Ethiopian Airlines initially hesitated to assist in setting up Nigeria Air but reconsidered due to Abuja's insistence. Ethiopian Airlines submitted a proposal and was chosen by the Nigerian Ministry of Aviation to partner in establishing the national airline.

These failures ultimately contributed to the killing of Tigrayan university chemistry Professor Meareg Amare. His son Abrham Meareg believes that these hostile Facebook posts contributed to his father’s death. At the time, the armed conflict in northern Ethiopia involving the TPLF, Ethiopian Federal Forces, and other armed groups was raging. Making it right – Meta’s responsibility to provide remedyMeta has a responsibility to provide remedy for the human rights abuses it has contributed to in Ethiopia. States must fulfil their obligation to protect human rights by introducing and enforcing legislation to effectively rein in Big Tech’s business model.

Doctor Tells Man Who Ran Dublin Marathon His ‘Nipples Will Never Be The Same’ Share:SOME 48 hours on from the excruciating hell that is the Dublin marathon, local man Ian Reilly remains in A&E with a debilitating case of ‘fried pepperoni nips’ brought on by the friction between his marathon singlet and his chaffed nipples. “It’s like you’ve been breastfeeding twins made entirely out of barbed wire, oh boy,” said a shocked Dr Farooq Ahmed, treating Reilly after a brief day’s wait in A&E. “I’ve seen less blood at a Halloween Horror movie marathon,” added Dr Ahmed to Reilly while beckoning in med students to observe this rare and hilarious bloodbath. The real tragedy is that Reilly’s 18 agonising hours waiting in A&E for treatment meant 18 hours of not been in a condition to upload nauseating selfies of the marathon to social media accompanied by lengthy statement about resilience filled with empty CEO podcast jargon. While overall winner of the marathon, Ethiopian Kemal Husen, completed the course in 2 hours and 6 minutes, Reilly finished it in just 436 screams of “me fuckin’ nips”.

PUNE, India, (Reuters) – A spirited Afghanistan upset another former champion yesterday when Hashmatullah Shahidi’s men defeated 1996 winners Sri Lanka by seven wickets to continue their memorable campaign at the 50-overs World Cup. Their bowlers had laid the foundation of their third win in six matches when they bowled out Sri Lanka for a below-par 241 in 49.3 overs. At 134-2 in the 28th over, Sri Lanka looked well placed to reach the 275-mark but the plucky Afghans struck at regular intervals to peg them back. Angelo Mathews and Maheesh Theekshana raised 45 quick runs for the eighth wicket but Sri Lanka still fell short of the 250-mark. “I think we were a little bit short of runs,” Sri Lanka captain Mendis said after their fourth loss in six matches.

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HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The former head of Exxon Mobil’s XOM.N shale oil and gas business will return as senior vice president over the company’s most important U.S. oil operation following his successor’s arrest earlier this month. Cahir has previously run Exxon’s shale business including its XTO unit as senior vice president of Unconventional from July 2020 through April 2022. Unconventional is Exxon’s term for shale oil and gas. That purchase will bring Exxon’s shale output to 1.3 million barrels of oil and gas (boepd), more than a quarter of its overall production. Cahir led Exxon’s Unconventional unit as senior vice president as Exxon implemented tough costs cuts following the collapse of oil and gas prices during the pandemic.

However, Facebook’s algorithms have fuelled devastating human rights violations by amplifying harmful content targeting the Tigrayan community across Facebook during the armed conflict. As a result, Meta has again contributed to serious human rights abuses, this time perpetrated against the Tigrayan community. Meta received multiple warnings both before and during the conflict from civil society organisations, human rights experts and its own Facebook Oversight Board - which recommended Meta undertake an independent human rights impact assessment on Ethiopia in 2021. Meta also has a responsibility to provide remedy for the human rights abuses it has contributed to in Ethiopia. Countries must fulfil their obligation to protect human rights by introducing and enforcing legislation to effectively rein in abusive Big Tech business model.

Children at an Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on Jan. 7, 2023. Today’s Palestinian Christians occupy a complicated place in this contested land. Twenty-first-century Palestinian Christians include a variety of communities with ties to this early history. Miaphysites, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics today all have churches in the land that was Roman Palestine. Palestinian Christians todayMost Palestinian Christians today are Arab Christians and part of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict erupted in July, a state-appointed human rights commission said on Monday. At least 183 people were killed in the first month of the conflict, the United Nations said in late August. In a new report, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) documented several incidents in which civilians were killed this month. Earlier this month, Amhara's regional administration said security had improved, and it eased curfews imposed after the conflict broke out. Relations between the two sides have since soured, particularly after the federal government moved in April to integrate security forces operated by each region into the police and army.

The new designation of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ethiopia will also come with the eviction of the more than 20,000 people living inside Bale Mountains National Park, say park officials. Community members still haven’t officially received their eviction notice, and authorities are reluctant to speak about the relocation plan. Fekadu Aman, 47, is one of the newer settlers in the Rira community. According to park officials, another big threat to the park is grazing. Park officials were reluctant to speak to Mongabay about the resettlement process, saying the issue is sensitive and the government is handling it with caution.

By Dawit EndeshawADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict erupted in July, a state-appointed human rights commission said on Monday. At least 183 people were killed in the first month of the conflict, the United Nations said in late August. In a new report, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) documented several incidents in which civilians were killed this month. Earlier this month, Amhara's regional administration said security had improved, and it eased curfews imposed after the conflict broke out. Relations between the two sides have since soured, particularly after the federal government moved in April to integrate security forces operated by each region into the police and army.