The Yellow Fever sub-national risk analysis findings dissemination workshop, and consultative and advocacy meeting was held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on 4th October 2023. The Yellow Fever (YF) risk analysis was led by the National Risk Analysis Working Group (RAWG) with members from MOH, Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), WHO and US-CDC. The current subnational YF risk assessment has shown all regions have risks of Yellow Fever but the relative risk of regions varies with some degrees of risk scores. The large Ethiopian population has very low yellow fever immunity and yet the yellow fever virus is endemic in the country. The yellow fever virus itself cannot be eradicated, but we can stop the epidemics using Yellow Fever vaccine.

Air Mauritius will begin its move from London Heathrow to Gatwick on Sunday, as the airline continues to consolidate its growth plans. London Gatwick Airport has been very much in the background growing at their own discretion over the course of this year. Back in June, London Gatwick Airport also announced that work on the redevelopment of it’s North Terminal had begun, aimed at changing the passenger experience for the better. With the appeal that the airport is trying to portray, it is clearly working if the likes of Air Mauritius and other carriers are switching over. Looking ahead, all eyes will be on Gatwick to see what other airlines will be inclined to operate there instead of Heathrow.

Others are attackers Kanu Uchenna, Omorinsola Omowunmi and Monday Gift who arrived Ramada Addis Hotels camp before breakfast could be served. Only United States-based top striker, Ifeoma Onumonu who was scheduled to arrive camp last night did not train. Earlier, eight players including six who departed from Nigeria on Sunday were in camp. They are Oluehi Tochukwu Ogbonna Akudo, Onyenezide Esther Chinemerem, Alani Jumoke, Oyono Monle, Folorunsho Comfort, Ajakaye Opeyemi and Payne Nicole. Prompt News can confirm that the Nigerian coaches who are leading the Super Falcons in the absence of head coach Randy Waldrum who excused himself from the trip to Ethiopia have perfected the game plan for the crucial match against Ethiopian Lucy.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A community in Las Vegas is celebrating the opening of its brand-new cultural district. “Little Ethiopia” officially opened on Tuesday morning with an unveiling ceremony near Decatur and Flamingo. Organizers said 40,000 Ethiopians call Las Vegas home and this establishment is now a place where they can gather as a community. As the first cultural district of its kind in Las Vegas, one organizer said he encourages other ethnic groups in the area to get to know each other. “We invite other communities, like we are surrounded by Chinese, Korean, Filipino and other groups in the area,” said Teshager Kelkay of Little Ethiopia.

Africana Restaurant & Cafe has closed after 43 years, as a result of unpaid taxes and is now in the possession of the state of Colorado, according to a notice hanging on its door this week. A notice of public sale by the order of the Executive Director Colorado Department of Revenue states that the restaurant owes $24,734 worth of unpaid taxes. Josh Rosenblum with the city’s Department of Finance previously told The Denver Post that this process is usually a last resort. Africana isn’t the only restaurant to close as a result of unpaid taxes recently. Subscribe to our new food newsletter, Stuffed, to get Denver food and drink news sent straight to your inbox.

The Super Falcons posted a very laboured display to force hosts Ethiopia to a 1-1 draw in a 2024 Olympics qualifier in Addis Ababa today. Ethiopia stunned their more illustrious opponents after just five minutes, when Birkie Amara connected home from a corner kick under the rain. Nigeria had to wait till the 51st minute before they will restore parity through captain Raheedat Ajibade. The Falcons most outstanding player let fly from outside the box an unstoppable rocket that gave the Ethiopian goalkeeper no chance. Highly-rated Barcelona star Asisat Oshoala was a pale shadow of the player who was recently nominated for the prestigious Ballon d’Or.

October 25, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian women’s national football team played out a 1-1 draw with Ethiopia in the first leg of their CAF Olympic qualification match in Addis Ababa on Wednesday. Rasheedat Ajibade captained the Super Falcons and scored their only goal, striking from long range in the 49th minute to equalise after the home side had taken an early lead through Birkie Amare. The match was Nigeria’s first game since their World Cup quarter-final defeat on penalties to England earlier this year. Nigeria came close to equalising in the 27th minute but Gift Monday’s effort was blocked by the Ethiopian defense. In the end, the Super Falcons had to settle for a draw.

The more than 40,000-member Las Vegas Ethiopian and Eritreans community on Tuesday celebrated a historic milestone — the inauguration of Clark County’s first official cultural district. Aster Yoseph pours roasted coffee, prepared in a traditional Ethiopian ceremony, at Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfayeDesigned in the likeness of an iconic Las Vegas symbol, the green, yellow and red sign states: “Welcome to Little Ethiopia.”Las Vegas Valley’s Ethiopian community on Tuesday celebrated a historic milestone — the inauguration of Clark County’s first official cultural district. “I was honored to be part of the Little Ethiopia Cultural District sign unveiling today,” Naft wrote on social media. “Today we officially welcome Little Ethiopia into the Las Vegas family,” she said.

A new two-day round of negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan ended in Cairo on Tuesday with no resolution to their years-long dispute over Addis Ababa’s building of a mega-dam on the Blue Nile, which threatens water security, the neighbours say. The next round of talks will be held in the Ethiopian capital, Egypt's Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation said. Another round of talks was held in Addis Ababa in September which also ended with no resolution to the dispute. READ MORE Why even failed talks over Ethiopia's Gerd dam are a good thingIn between August and September's talks, Addis Ababa announced it had completed the fourth and final filling of the dam's 74 cubic-kilometre reservoir. Ethiopia has maintained that it is well within its rights to build the hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, which originates in Lake Tana.

Gebisa Ejeta won the World Food Prize in 2009 for developing an advanced hybrid of the sorghum cerealEthiopian-born scientist Gebisa Ejeta has received the National Medal of Science, the highest state honour attainable by scientists in the United States. US President Joe Biden said he awarded Mr Ejeta the medal for his "outstanding contributions to the science of plant genetics". Mr Ejeta is acclaimed as one of the world's leading plant geneticists. Mr Ejeta was raised in a single-roomed thatched home in a village in central Ethiopia not far from the capital, Addis Ababa. Mr Ejeta also received the National Hero Award from the Ethiopian government shortly after he won the World Food Prize in 2009, the highest national honour bestowed on Ethiopian citizens.

Italian espresso equipment company La Marzocco revealed the latest models in its Strada line of commercial espresso machines, the Strada X and Strada S.The new machines were publicly displayed earlier this month at the HostMilano expo in Italy. They were among a number of launches coming from the La Marzocco camp, including the Pico home grinder, a Brew-By-Weight scale system for the LM Home line (more on that soon) and the Sync System collaboration with grinder-maker Mahlkönig. “Until the free space is filled with water there is no ‘pressure’ that is controllable,” La Marzocco Senior Product Manager Scott Guglielmino told Daily Coffee News. The Strada S also has separate boilers for each group and a variety of features carried over from earlier Stradas, although Smart Saturation and individual pumps per group are only available on the Strada X. A single-group machine called the Strada X1 is also available on the La Marzocco Home website with a price of $20,000.

The Super Falcons will be without head coach Randy Waldrum as they face Ethiopia in the first leg of the second round of the 2024 Women’s Olympic qualifying games, in Addis Ababa today, The PUNCHreports. Related NewsEthiopia secured a spot for this round after beating Chad 10-0 in the first round of the series in July. The Ethiopians won the first leg 6-0 in Addis Ababa, before lashing their hosts 4-0 in N’Djamena five days later. For today’s game, the Confederation of African Football has appointed Lamia Atman from Algeria as referee, with her compatriots Asma Feriel Ouahab, Sara Kemmad and Ghada Mehat as assistant referee 1, assistant referee 2 and fourth official respectively. The winners on aggregate will confront the winners of the fixture between Cameroon and Uganda.

The Catholic bishop in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region while expressing grave concern for the state of today's world is pleading with the international community to not overlook the dire humanitarian situation because of the ongoing three-year-long conflict in his diocese. "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation, otherwise the consequences will continue affecting more and more, of course the weaker ones being first losers," Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin of Adigrat whose diocese covers the whole of Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, said in a statement to FIDES. Bishop Medhin said this was the situation despite the November 2022 peace agreement signed in South Africa. "The world is relaxed as if the peace agreement is in place""Our population is experiencing extremely difficult life in Tigray. The United Nations has also been increasingly outspoken about the widespread atrocities, war crimes and other crimes against humanity conducted by both sides.

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Duro IkhazuagbeTop Super Falcons’ star players like Halimat Ayinde, Osinachi Ohale and Christy Ucheibe will be conspicuously missing this afternoon as Nigeria battle hosts Ethiopia in the first leg second-round fixture of the Paris Olympic Games women’s football event qualifier in Addis Ababa. The game slated for the Abebe Bekila Stadium in the Ethiopian capital city, is to kick off at 3.30pm Ethiopia time (1.30pm Nigeria time). Esther Onyenezide, who impressed at last year’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in Costa Rica as Nigeria reached the quarter-finals, has been drafted to replace Ayinde. According to the Director of Communication of the NFF, only US-based Ifeoma Onumonu was expected in Addis Ababa last night. Next year’s Olympic Games will hold between 26th July and 11th August in Paris and a few other places in France.