Tension at Charampa College in Odisha’s Bhadrak as students stage protest
Bhadrak, Aug 9: Tension prevailed at Charampa College in Odisha’s Bhadrak district after several students staged a protest alleging embezzlement of government funds on Wednesday. As per reports, the students staged a road blockade by burning tyres. They also accused the Principal of not paying attention to the problems of the students. Some non-students had thrashed several students of the college yesterday. Following this, the road blockade was withdrawn.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 09, 2023 10:08 UTC
Ethiopia: WFP "tests" resumption of food aid in Tigray
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) told AFP on Tuesday that since the end of July it has been "testing" the resumption of food aid distribution in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, which it suspended in May for misappropriation. The WFP, along with the US government's international aid agency USAID, suspended food aid to the war-torn northern region of Tigray in early May, before extending the decision to the whole of Ethiopia the following month, due to "widespread and coordinated" detour. The WFP also announced that it had resumed registration of food aid beneficiaries and introduced "bag marking to enable precise tracking of foodstuffs". In a response to AFP, USAID said on Tuesday that "U.S. food aid to Ethiopia remains suspended", while assuring that it was working "in close collaboration with the WFP". Many Tigrayans have been forced to skip meals due to the suspension of food aid, others to prostitute themselves in order to obtain food, Ocha estimated on Friday.
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August 09, 2023 09:50 UTC
Ethiopian military pushes back militiamen in two major Amhara towns
Ethiopia's military has pushed local militiamen out of two major towns in the Amhara region, residents said on Wednesday, in its first major battlefield breakthroughs since fighting erupted last week. Ethiopian Airlines, meanwhile, announced that flights to Gondar and Amhara's capital, Bahir Dar - where fighting has also occurred - would resume on Thursday. A Fano militiaman from Gondar told Reuters that the ENDF, backed by anti-riot police and pro-government militiamen, had pushed the Fano fighters out of the city on Tuesday. Two Lalibela residents told Reuters that ENDF troops entered the town on Wednesday morning following intense fighting on Lalibela's outskirts the previous day. Little information has filtered out of Amhara about the human toll of the fighting so far, but Lalibela residents told Reuters on Tuesday that more than a dozen combatants had been killed over the previous days.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 09, 2023 09:35 UTC
Ethiopian military forces back militiamen in major Amhara city, locals say
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's military has pushed local militiamen out of most of Gondar, a large city where intense fighting has raged since clashes broke out across the Amhara region last week, local residents and a militia member said on Wednesday. The military's success in Gondar, Amahara's second-biggest city, is the first major breakthrough for federal forces, who were overrun by Fano militiamen in Gondar and some other towns in the early days of the fighting. A Fano militiaman from Gondar told Reuters that the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), backed by anti-riot police and pro-government militiamen, had pushed the Fano fighters out of the city on Tuesday. A local official in Gondar said the military was "almost in full control of the city". Another Gondar resident said he had seen the military enter the city centre on Tuesday afternoon.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 09, 2023 08:55 UTC
WFP Begins Test Distribution of Food Aid to Ethiopia's Tigray
The World Food Program has started distributing food aid in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region in a test of new monitoring measures, the United Nations agency said on Tuesday. WFP and U.S. aid agency USAID halted food aid to Africa's second-most populous country in June after discovering that supplies were not reaching those in need, raising fears that millions of Ethiopians would be left in desperate straits. "On July 31, the World Food Program started testing and verifying enhanced controls and measures for delivering food assistance in four districts of Tigray," it said in a message to AFP. A spokesperson for USAID, the U.S. government's main international aid agency, told AFP that U.S. food assistance in Ethiopia remains paused. "We are committed to resuming food assistance as quickly as possible once we can be confident our assistance is reaching the most vulnerable that it is intended for," the spokesperson said.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 21:12 UTC
What’s behind the latest fighting in Ethiopia?
Rebels in Amhara have taken up arms against Ethiopia’s military. Conflict has returned to Ethiopia – this time in Amhara, the second-largest region in the country. Rebels in Amhara – known as Fano – helped the government in its two-year war in neighbouring Tigray. Now they’ve taken up arms against the military. Presenter: Adrian FinighanGuests:Kemal Hashi Mohamoud – Member of the Ethiopian ParliamentYohannes Woldemariam – Academic and Ethiopia researcher specialising in the Horn of AfricaTewodrose Tirfe – Chairman and founding member of the Amhara Association of America
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August 08, 2023 20:41 UTC
Foreign Ministry says working to aid Israelis and Jews caught in Ethiopian unrest
While in Moldova, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen conducts a situational assessment on events in northern Ethiopia. The Foreign Ministry has contacted 160 Israelis and 54 Ethiopians who are eligible to make aliyah, according to the ministry. Cohen directs ministry Director-General Ronen Levy to work with the ministry situation room and Israel’s embassy in Addis Ababa to examine the possibility of rescuing Israelis and local Jews if needed. He says that the Foreign Ministry is working with the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security Agency on the issue. “We will spare no effort to ensure the welfare of all Israelis and Jews trapped in the region,” he pledges.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 20:02 UTC
Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission calls for unconditional end to the conflict
Professor Mesfin Araya, commissioner of the National Dialogue Commission (Photo : file)By Staff ReporterADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA) – Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission has called for unconditional ending of the conflicts throughout the country and all confronting bodies to come together for urgent dialogue and consultations. The Commission said that it “is ready to bring the stakeholders together and create favourable conditions for discussion and consultation”. Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission said this today 08 August 2023 in a press statement it gave in connection with the current situation. Having this in mind, said Professor Mesfin, Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission was established with the objectives of creating an environment in which disputes could be settled through consultation in a civilised manner. To implement this, the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission has made public that it is ready to bring stakeholders together, table different agendas and create favourable conditions for discussion and consultation, the Commissioner said.
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August 08, 2023 19:48 UTC
Civilians targeted in Gondar fighting, Heritage site at risk
borkenaMany civilians causalities reported in Gondar. Government forces firing ZU-23 directing targeting the city and the heritage site – The 16th century castle that was built under Emperor Fasiledes in the 16th century. Take a listen to a report from Anchor media below. Video : embedded from Anchor Media youtube channelCover photo : screenshot from the video. Subscribe to YouTube channel To share information or for submission, send e-mail to info@borkena.com
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August 08, 2023 19:47 UTC
African Airlines See 34.7% Traffic Rise in June – Ethiopian Monitor
African carriers posted a 34.7% traffic increase in June compared to the same month in 2022 as the post-COVID recovery momentum continues. This is according to a monthly report of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) report issued today. The report says international traffic climbed 33.7% in June 2023 versus the same month last year with all markets showing robust growth. African airlines saw 34.7% traffic rise in the same period, the second highest percentage gain among the regions, per IATA. “Africa was the only region to see a decline in the monthly international load factor compared to the year ago period,” the report noted.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 19:32 UTC
Ethiopian Airlines cancels last remaining flights to restive Amhara region
Ethiopian Airlines, the national flag carrier of Ethiopia, announced Tuesday that it has cancelled flights to Bahir Dar City, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region. The airlines said in a press statement that flights planned for Wednesday to Friday in Dessie, Gonder, Lalibela and Bahir Dar cities have been cancelled. On Friday, the airlines announced it has indefinitely suspended flights to Dessie, Gonder and Lalibela cities, leaving Bahir Dar as the only remaining city with an air link in the Amhara region. On Friday, the Ethiopian federal declared a state of emergency in the region following several days of fighting in towns across the Amhara region between federal forces and local militiamen known as Fano. On Sunday, the Ethiopian government admitted local militias have seized several cities in the Amhara region from government forces and it has promised to reverse ongoing security problems in the Amhara region in a short period of time.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 19:17 UTC
Fano’s Defiance ( by Biniam Ambachew)
(8) The security crisis in the Amhara region has deteriorated since the National Defense Force entered the Amhara region in March of 2023. Simultaneously, fighting occurred in the north, south, and central Gondar regions, including Debre-Tabor, and in Gondar City, the most populous city in the Amhara region. Fanos not only has galvanized a wide-scale of public support in the Amhara region and beyond, but every able man and woman is joining the struggle to become Fanos. At the current trajectory, it’s safe to foreshadow that the entire Amhara region will fall under Fano’s control in weeks. It will cause incalculable collateral damage in the Amhara region and deepen the widespread hatred and resentment against Abiy’s governing party.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 18:39 UTC
Conflict rages in Ethiopia as militia fighters gain land
Conflict rages in Ethiopia as militia fighters gain landThe federal government has tried to centralize security powers after the end of a devastating two-year conflict in the country’s Tigray region. The federal government has tried to centralize security powers after the end of a devastating two-year conflict in the country’s Tigray region, where Amhara regional forces and militia were key allies of the federal military. A member of the audience holds a national flag at a ceremony to remember those soldiers who died on the first day of the Tigray conflict, outside the city administration office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Nov. 3, 2022. Residents reported heavy fighting to the north of Gondar as federal forces attempted to retake it. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Ethiopian, said Sunday that the violence in the Amhara region was affecting humanitarian operations.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 18:02 UTC
Israel mulling options to rescue citizens in war-torn Ethiopia
(August 8, 2023 / JNS)An emergency meeting of Israel’s National Security Council was held on Tuesday morning to examine options for rescuing Israelis trapped in war-torn northern Ethiopia. Officials were discussing the possibility of sending in an armed convoy for a 14-hour rescue mission in coordination with the Ethiopian military and the rival militia. On Monday morning, 13 Israelis and seven foreign nationals in the town of Debark, north of Gondar, were transported out of danger, Walla News reported. The Israeli and foreign nationals were rescued by Magnus International Search and Rescue and PassportCard in coordination with local officials, Israeli diplomats in Addis Ababa and the Israeli Foreign Ministry. An Israeli citizen who was abducted in Ethiopia some three weeks ago has been freed and reunited with his children, Channel 12 News reported on Monday.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 17:50 UTC
WFP begins 'test distribution' of food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray
NAIROBI: The World Food Programme has started distributing food aid in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region, in a test for new monitoring measures after halting assistance over the diversion of supplies, the United Nations agency said on Tuesday (Aug 8). WFP and US aid agency USAID halted food aid to Africa's second most populous country in June after discovering that supplies were not reaching those in need, raising fears that the decision would leave millions of Ethiopians in desperate straits. "On Jul 31, the World Food Programme started testing and verifying enhanced controls and measures for delivering food assistance in four districts of Tigray," it said in a message to AFP. "We are committed to resuming food assistance as quickly as possible once we can be confident our assistance is reaching the most vulnerable that it is intended for." Prior to the nationwide suspension, WFP and USAID said in May that they would freeze food aid to Tigray after discovering that shipments were being diverted to local markets.
Source:Ethiopian News
August 08, 2023 16:47 UTC