At least 183 killed in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region
At least 183 people have been killed since July in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the United Nations said Tuesday as it appealed for the killings, violence and rights abuses to end. Tension in the northern region ratcheted up this year after the end of a devastating war in the neighbouring region of Tigray that also drew in fighters from Amhara. “We are very concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in some regions of Ethiopia,” UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Marta Hurtado told reporters in Geneva. “In Amhara region, following a flare-up in clashes between the Ethiopian military and the regional Fano militia, and the declaration of a state of emergency on August 4, the situation worsened considerably. The move triggered protests by Amhara nationalists who said it would weaken their region.
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August 29, 2023 14:30 UTC
Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema
Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema. In Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema, Tekletsadik Belachew takes his research in a new direction by using Gerima’s films as inspiration for his own theological meditations. In this book, Belachew enters into the discourse of African Christian theology for which he utilizes Haile Gerima’s films as critical tools to inter rogate the racist biases and colonialist worldviews of Eurocentric Christian theology. Toward this self-consciously “imperfect journey” inspired by the cinematic tactics of Third Cinema, he takes several turns. He also reveals the influence of Haile Gerima’s father, Abba Gerima Taffere, and usefully provides lengthy trans lations of the father’s writings about history and religion.
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August 29, 2023 14:20 UTC
Ethiopia: at least 183 dead in Amhara clashes since July (UN)
At least 183 people have been killed since July in clashes in the Ethiopian state of Amhara, which has been plagued by violence for several weeks, the United Nations announced on Tuesday. "At least 183 people have been killed in clashes since July, according to information gathered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights", the OHCHR spokeswoman continued. Amhara, Ethiopia's second most populous state, has been the scene of armed violence since April, triggered by the federal government's desire to disband the Amhara "special forces". "We are very concerned about the deterioration of the human rights situation in certain regions of Ethiopia", said Marta Hurtado, stressing that the state of emergency gives the authorities wide powers. Tensions in Amhara have increased since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that he wanted to dismantle the "special forces", paramilitary units created by a number of regional states.
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August 29, 2023 14:09 UTC
Whatever happened in Ethiopia: Did the cease-fire bring an end to civilian suffering?
Last November, the civil war ended with a ceasefire, nearly two years to the day after it began. The use of sexual violence by armed forces during the civil war in Ethiopia has been reported previously by the U.S. State Department and Amnesty International. But this new publication shows that as recently as June, months after the peace agreement was signed, sexual violence against women and girls has not stopped. All but one detailed conflict-related sexual violence involving girls and women from ages 8 to 69. We are alarmed by the increasing use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict globally."
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August 29, 2023 14:05 UTC
Ethiopia Clashes: 183 People Killed In 2 Months, UN Appeals For Calm
( Image Source : Getty Images )The United Nations on Tuesday said that at least 183 people have been killed so far since July in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, appealing to put an end to the killings, violence, and rights abuses. The international body said it was “very concerned” about the deteriorating human rights situation in some regions of the country. "We are very concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in some regions of Ethiopia," UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Marta Hurtado told reporters in Geneva, according to the report. "At least 183 people have been killed in clashes since July, according to information gathered by the UN Human Rights Office." "We have received reports that more than 1,000 people have been arrested across Ethiopia under this law.
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August 29, 2023 14:04 UTC
At least 183 killed in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara since July: UN
GENEVA: At least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region since July, the United Nations said on Tuesday, quoting UN rights monitors . "Following a flare-up in clashes between the Ethiopian military and the regional Fano militia, and the declaration of a state of emergency on August 4, the situation worsened considerably," spokeswoman Marta Hurtado told reporters in Geneva.
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August 29, 2023 12:35 UTC
The U.N. says at least 183 people have been killed in Ethiopia over Amhara region unrest since July
FILE — An unidentified armed militia fighter walks down a path as villagers flee with their belongings in the other direction, near the village of Chenna Teklehaymanot, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Ethiopia's government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters, while details of dozens of civilians killed have begun to emerge from the region amid an internet shutdown. (AP Photo, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the federal government to disband them. Amhara fighters had fought alongside the military in the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region that ended in November with a peace agreement. The conflict spilled into the Amhara region when Tigray forces at one point tried to approach the capital, Addis Ababa.
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August 29, 2023 12:34 UTC
Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia talks on controversial GERD dam fail
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have been negotiating over the bitterly contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for years without coming to an agreement. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have failed to come to an agreement over the contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile following two days of talks in Cairo which ended on Monday. The talks were aimed at reaching a legally binding agreement that would give Egypt a say in how the dam is operated and filled. Downstream states Egypt and Sudan are worried about the effect the GERD will have on their own water supplies with both heavily reliant on the Nile. RELATED Ethiopia and Egypt weigh future of Nile and nationhood In-depthLocated on the Blue Nile, the GERD has been under construction since 2011 and is nearly complete.
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August 29, 2023 12:25 UTC
How did Ethiopia go from its leader winning the Nobel Peace Prize to war in a year?
How did Ethiopia go from its leader winning the Nobel Peace Prize to war in a year? In 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize. ARABLOUEI: That's Sarah Vaughan, author of a book called Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. A man named Abiy Ahmed, whose father was Oromo, became the protesters' favored leader. That sort of sense of Ethiopia as a kind of spiritual project is something which Abiy Ahmed has recaptured.
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August 29, 2023 12:17 UTC
Ethiopia: opposition figure seeks political asylum in the United States
One of the main opponents of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian political figure Bekele Gerba, has applied for political asylum in the United States, he told AFP on Monday, denouncing the deteriorating political situation in Ethiopia and saying he feared for his life. "I emailed my letter of resignation to the president of the OFC, Dr Merera Gudina, this (Monday) morning", Mr Bekele told AFP by telephone in the United States. In the United States, where he has been since June 2022, "I realised that the political situation in Ethiopia was constantly deteriorating" with "intimidation, mass murders and arrests", he explained. He was released in January 2022 under an amnesty, along with several Ethiopian opposition figures. Another Oromo opposition figure released at the same time as Mr Bekele was Jawar Mohamed, a former ally of the Ethiopian government.
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August 29, 2023 11:30 UTC
Ethiopia, World Bank Sign $730m Corridor Project Agreement
August 29, (THEWILL) – The Ethiopia Government and the World Bank have signed a $730 million corridor project agreement, to improve a key route between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. Ethiopia Ministry of Finance in a statement said the HoA Regional Economic Corridor Project (under Ethio-Djibouti) seeks to enhance the connectivity and logistics performance between the East African countries via the strategic Addis–Djibouti road corridor. According to the statement, the route covers more than 90% of Ethiopia’s Maritime trade. The Agreement was signed virtually between the Ethiopian Minister of Finance, Ahmed Shide, and the Regional Integration Director of the World Bank, Ms. Boutheina Guermazi. Shide thanked the World Bank for the bold support and reiterated Ethiopia’s commitment to regional integration.
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August 29, 2023 10:41 UTC
Scholarship for students from 'occupied territories'
An official document of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem calls on Palestinian students "from the occupied territories" to apply for the "Yad Hanadiv" doctoral scholarship program. According to the document, the scholarship will be NIS 8,000 per month for five years. Those eligible, according to the language of the document are "Palestinian citizens living in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip." The document clarifies that "Palestinians from East Jerusalem are not eligible." This is a disaster for Israeli academia, the Minister of Education must intervene!"
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August 29, 2023 10:28 UTC
Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant Killings
Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant KillingsWe know what the regime is like. HRW’s “They Fired Upon Us Like Rain”: Saudi Arabian Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border, is a self-explanatory document of brutal recounting by the human rights organisation, based on the interviews of 42 Ethiopian and asylum seekers. Saudi border guards, it would seem, went so far as to deploy an array of weapons against such migrants, showing a keen interest targeting Ethiopians. Those interviewed in the camp of Saada, base for tens of thousands awaiting their chance to enter Saudi Arabia, note how Saudi border guards tended to patrol the border equipped with “large vehicles” that could have been rocket launchers. This HRW Report adds another bloodied entry to the chronicles of the Kingdom’s brutality.
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August 29, 2023 01:44 UTC
The BOSS Network, Sage Announce Winners Of 2nd Annual “Invest In Progress” Grant Program
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\BlackBusiness.comThe BOSS Network, an online community of professional and entrepreneurial women who support each other through digital content, programs, and event-based networking, and Sage (FTSE: SGE), the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, have announced the 25 awardees of the 2023 Sage Invest in Progress grant to support Black women entrepreneurs in their first five years of business. The BOSS Network and Sage “Invest in Progress” grant is a three-year, commitment by Sage (via the Sage Foundation) to support the BOSS Impact Fund, which is focused on raising investment funding for 500+ black women-led businesses and preparing entrepreneurs to build scalable, growth aggressive companies.
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August 29, 2023 01:12 UTC
Ethiopia’s first year in Pakistan: A journey of friendship and growth
This marked a watershed moment as the realms of business, trade, and investment were explored like never before. The business chambers of Pakistan emerged as pivotal players in fostering closer ties, organizing the “Ethio-Pakistan Business Forum” across key cities. The economic landscape beckons the Pakistani business community to consider Ethiopia as a novel economic destination - a gateway to the vast expanse of Africa. Ethiopia’s remarkable journey towards a double-digit economy is a testament to the transformative power of reforms initiated in 2018. We stand by Pakistan, just as Pakistan stands by Ethiopia.
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August 29, 2023 01:12 UTC