Ethiopia says government committed to preservation of human rights
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Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 21:52 UTC
Explore Ethiopian Statehood with Dr. Tsegaye Tegenu 😀
All popular movements, including Eritrea’s secession led by EPLF, revealed the true characteristics, limitation and historical nature of the Ethiopian central state. These movements profoundly questioned the capability of the Ethiopian central government to change the material wellbeing of the local people. That was absolutely contrary to my view and expectation about the Ethiopian central state. Why Professor Donald Crummey interpreted century of history in the way that I did not mean to be interpreted. History shows that whatever mantle it wears, unitarist or federalist, the central Ethiopian state is true to its tradition: very much elitist and extractivist.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 20:06 UTC
WFP faces funding shortfall to meet humanitarian needs in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said it has encountered a funding shortfall in meeting the needs of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and communities in Ethiopia. The WFP, in its latest Ethiopia country brief issued late Thursday, said it is facing a funding shortfall of 420 million U.S. dollars to support its humanitarian activities in Ethiopia until the end of the year. "Reports from WFP's conflict sensitivity assessment indicate that the food security situation is worsening in many areas of the country," the WFP said. According to the WFP, Ethiopia has faced conflict, displacement and drought over the past few years, eventually resulting in growing food insecurity. It said some 15.1 million people in Ethiopia were in need of emergency food assistance for the third quarter.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 19:30 UTC
Kenya: Hundreds of believers protest LGBTQ association right
Hundreds of Muslims and conservative Christians in Kenya’s capital rallied Friday outside the Supreme Court to protest its decision last month to reaffirm the LGBTQ community’s right of association, saying that the verdict condoned immorality. "We, as a country, we do not want any donations from any other countries to force us with the LGBTQ laws. The court last month reaffirmed an earlier ruling that the Non-Governmental Organization Board in Kenya had discriminated against LGBTQ people when it refused to register their association. The two dissenting judges opposed the ruling because Kenya’s laws outlaws same-sex relationships. The LGBTQ community in Kenya is often targeted by homophobic people, including in cases of physical and verbal abuse.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 19:03 UTC
US turns to biometrics to prevent humanitarian aid theft in Ethiopia
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that it will resume limited food aid in Ethiopia, AFP News reports. Broader aid for Ethiopia will remain on hold as the U.S. implements additional reforms to prevent diversion. USAID halted all food aid to Ethiopia in June, alleging widespread and coordinated diversion of donated supplies. U.N. agencies warned in June that some 60 million people need food assistance in the Horn of Africa due to armed conflict, record droughts, and high global prices. Despite its controversies, aid organizations are looking to the potential of biometrics to ensure food reaches those in need.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 16:45 UTC
Unexploded weapons haunt communities in northern Ethiopia: ICRC
Unexploded weapons have continued threatening the lives of communities in conflict-affected parts of northern Ethiopia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. “It is an absolute tragedy for someone to be killed or to lose a limb due to the detonation of unexploded weapons. It has trained nearly 50 volunteers who promote risk awareness and safer behaviour in 23 districts across Tigray, the ICRC said. It added that ICRC weapon contamination teams also visit victims and refer them for medical or physical rehabilitation care in facilities supported by the ICRC. Some victims of weapon contamination accidents with exceptional difficulties have also received emergency financial assistance from the ICRC to cover their urgent needs, it said.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 16:30 UTC
Ethiopia: Unexploded Weapons Pose Deadly Threat
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ethiopia has warned that the lives of children and farmers are at risk from unexploded weapons. ‘It’s an absolute tragedy for someone to be killed or to lose a limb due to the detonation of unexploded weapons, even more so after the end of a conflict’, ICRC’s weapon contamination specialist in Ethiopia, Vasanth Kanags, said in a statement. ‘It’s urgent that we inform communities of this danger, especially children who naturally want to play with new, interesting-looking objects’. According to international humanitarian law, civilians exposed to unexploded ordnance must be protected and assisted. Development Diaries calls on the government of Ethiopia to sign, ratify and implement the Convention on Conventional Weapons and its fifth protocol on explosive remnants of war.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 16:30 UTC
2023 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi
Oslo: The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. The announcement was made by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. “This year’s peace prize also recognises the hundreds of thousands of people who, in the preceding year, have demonstrated against Iran’s theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women,” the Institute said. Last year, the prize was conferred jointly to Russian human rights group Memorial, Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties and jailed Belarusian rights advocate Ales Bialiatski for the “promotion of peace” on the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Since its inception in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 110 individuals and 30 organisations.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 15:24 UTC
Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) Daily Trade Data - 05 October 2023
For all other commodities, price is in (Birr/Quintals), 1 Quintal = 100Kg. To get more commodity trade information, you may call ECX on short number 929 or text to them on short number 934.
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October 06, 2023 13:16 UTC
Syria mourns scores killed in drone attack on military academy
Reading Time: 2 minutesSyria on Friday held funerals for scores of people killed in a drone attack on a graduation ceremony at a military academy in the Homs region the previous day, one of the bloodiest strikes against the military in more than 12 years of civil war. Several weaponised drones hit the Homs Military Academy’s courtyard where families were gathered with the new officers on Thursday, minutes after defence minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas had left. On Friday morning, coffins carrying victims and draped in the Syrian flag were sent out from the Homs Military Hospital. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reports on the Syrian conflict, put the toll at above 120. Russia has helped in efforts to strengthen the Syrian military.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 12:41 UTC
BRICS expansion allows Ethiopia to deepen economic cooperation with emerging markets: Envoy
ISLAMABAD, OCT 6 /DNA/ – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to Islamic Republic of Pakistan Jemal Beker Abdula has said that joining of his country to BRICS would deepen its economic cooperation with the emerging markets of the world. Addressing a round table discussion on “Expanding BRICS and the New Alignments”, the ambassador underscored that the BRICS expansion would be instrumental in Ethiopia’s ten-year development plan, aligning with the economic reforms initiated by Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed. Ambassador Jemal Beker emphasized that Ethiopia’s entry into BRICS would open new avenues for increased trade, foreign direct investment, and opportunities for technology transfer, knowledge sharing, and infrastructural development. He also underlined Ethiopia’s vital role in the African Union, stating that Ethiopia brings not only economic strength but also a deep understanding of regional dynamics to the group with its addition. “As the headquarters of the African Union, Ethiopia holds significant influence over regional affairs and aims to become a hub of connectivity and manufacturing in the African continent, offering BRICS a gateway to African markets,” the ambassador remarked.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 12:30 UTC
Unexploded weapons trouble communities in northern Ethiopia – ICRC
Unexploded weapons have continued threatening the lives of communities in conflict-affected parts of northern Ethiopia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. According to the ICRC, among those most at risk are children playing and farmers returning to their land located in former battlefields. It has trained nearly 50 volunteers who promote risk awareness and safer behavior in 23 districts across Tigray, the ICRC said, adding that ICRC weapon contamination teams also visit victims and refer them for medical or physical rehabilitation care in facilities supported by the ICRC. Some victims of weapon contamination accidents with exceptional difficulties have also received emergency financial assistance from the ICRC to cover their urgent needs, it said. According to International Humanitarian Law, civilians exposed to unexploded ordnance must be protected and assisted, the statement said.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 11:07 UTC
U.S. resumes some food aid deliveries to Ethiopia after assistance halted over ‘widespread’ theft
Food aid will be restored to roughly 1 million refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and elsewhere. However, food assistance has not resumed for the 20.1 million Ethiopians who rely on it as the country grapples with internal conflict and drought. USAID and the United Nations World Food Program in June halted all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a “widespread” scale. Both agencies had already paused food assistance to the war-torn province of Tigray in March. At the time, USAID officials told The Associated Press that the diversion scheme could be the largest-ever theft of humanitarian food.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 09:49 UTC
Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting the oppression of women in Iran
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women's rights and democracy and against the death penalty. Before being jailed, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. Unlike the other Nobel prizes that are selected and announced in Stockholm, founder Alfred Nobel decreed that the peace prize be decided and awarded in Oslo by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee. The peace prize was the fifth of this year's prizes to be announced. A pair of scientists whose work enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 09:44 UTC
Ethiopia’s Peace Rally All But Gone as Default Possibility Grows
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s sole eurobond is close to erasing gains made since a peace process started to end its catastrophic civil war, as investors increase bets that the Horn of Africa nation will default. A prospective end to that two-year conflict had revived hopes that Ethiopia could return to form as one of Africa’s best growth prospects. Ethiopia has about $28 billion of external debt and has said it would need $20 billion for post-war reconstruction. Moody’s Investors Service last month downgraded Ethiopia’s credit rating to Caa3, warning of the “increasingly high likelihood of default” on its foreign currency private-sector debt. The conflict left hundreds of thousands dead and forced millions more to flee, according to US and European Union estimates.
Source:Ethiopian News
October 06, 2023 08:41 UTC