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Emirates Draw winner one number away from Dh100m jackpot
An Italian resident was one number away from scooping the Dh100 million ($27.3 million) jackpot in the Emirates Draw last Sunday. Mr Bellanti was on holiday near Venice when he heard about his good fortune, Emirates Draw said on Thursday. “While I welcome this win with both hands, I will continue playing with Emirates Draw until I win Dh15 million or even Dh100 million. Read more Owner of Stray Dogs Centre UAQ to invest Emirates Draw winnings in helping rescue animalsEmirates Draw is celebrating Eid Al Adha by holding a special raffle this weekend. People can take part in the Emirates Draw by buying pencils – prices start at Dh15 – with funds raised going towards planting corals.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 12:20 UTC
US horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths
The United States humanitarian agency is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where local officials have reported hundreds of hunger deaths in recent weeks after the U.S. and the United Nations paused food aid for one-sixth of the country's population over massive theft of the aid. In an unusually strong statement emailed to the AP, the U.S. Agency for International Development called the aid suspension "wrenching" and a measure of last resort because of the "extreme scale and coordination of food aid diversion identified across the country." U.S. officials have said in private that this could be the biggest-ever theft of aid in any country. The government, which largely controls the aid delivery process, dismisses as harmful propaganda the suggestion that it bears primary responsibility for the disappearance of aid. The U.S. and U.N. first halted food aid to Tigray in March, and in early June they extended the ban to the rest of Ethiopia, where over 20 million people rely on such assistance.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 12:00 UTC
BMW taps abstract artist Julie Mehretu to paint its latest Art Car
Now, Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu, known for her work in abstract painting, has been chosen to create the company’s next Art Car. The first BMW Art Car was painted in 1975 by the American sculptor Alexander Calder after French racing driver Hervé Poulain brought the idea to BMW. The first woman to take on a BMW Art Car was South African artist Esther Mahlangu, who in 1991 painted a 525i sedan. Esther Mahlangu's Art Car featured the bold colors and geometric patterns used in the traditional arts and crafts of the Southern Ndebele people. Enes Kucevic/BMWMehretu’s will be the 20th BMW Art Car.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 11:40 UTC
Bold, Black and brewtiful: Importin' Joe's Ethiopian Coffee
(Photos provided by Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee)When Joseph Luten and his Ethiopian wife, Afomia, would visit her home country, he noticed coffee was weaved into the way of life for the people. This sparked an entrepreneurial endeavor that the couple called Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee. (Photos provided by Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee)The couple brought coffee to Mishawaka, Indiana, introducing the coffee to Indiana grocery shoppers to provide them with a warm way to start their mornings. Along with fighting to eradicate childhood homelessness overseas, Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee simultaneously invests into the social fabric of marginalized communities in the U.S. The couple taste tests for a variety of Ethiopian coffees they want to bring back to U.S. (Photos provided by Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee)Project Impact, an initiative in South Bend, offers resources to support minority-owned businesses like Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 11:37 UTC
Laughter Amidst Misery – Ethiopian Business Review - Satenaw: Ethiopian News
Even though it has not yet reached its full potential, standup comedy is indeed helping urbanites ease their economic pain. Standup comedy was primarily presented as a prelude to other public gatherings, like music concerts and public conferences. He envisioned the center hosting a series of standup comedy shows to support the growth of the art of standup comedy. According to Asayehegn, standup comedy shows elicit two types of reactions from the public. The first reaction is from an audience that is already acquainted with standup comedy shows in the US and other parts of the world.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 11:06 UTC
#ASDailyScoop: Auditor General uncovers 15 billion birr in unclaimed revenues
Meseret highlighted that the country continues to experience significant financial losses in the form of uncollected tax revenues. These reports consistently reveal a pattern of uncollected revenues, unaccounted and illicit expenses, and financial irregularities that have been brought to the attention of legislators for the past 14 consecutive years. According to the latest report, the Ministry of Revenues and Ethiopian Customs Commission discovered to have 13.4 billion birr in outstanding accounts receivable. This announcement came during the presentation of the budget proposal for the upcoming Ethiopian fiscal year, which took place a month ago. According to the finance minister’s report, tax collection for the first three quarters of the year amounted to 282 billion birr, accounting for only 70.5% of the planned target.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 09:58 UTC
Safaricom poaches MTN exec for Ethiopia CEO role
Safaricom hired MTN executive Wim Vanhelleputte (pictured) as CEO of Safaricom Ethiopia, who will be taking the helm from September 1, and replacing outgoing chief Anwar Soussa. Prior to this role, he served as chief executive of MTN Uganda since 2016 and was boss of MTN Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) between 2009 to 2015. Outgoing boss Soussa will depart his role on July 31 after taking the job almost two years ago. Replacing Vanhelleputte at MTN as operations executive will be Stephen Blewett who joins from Digicel where he was group chief operating officer, based in Jamaica. The new MTN executive had served MTN prior, including as CEO of MTN Cameroon where he was credited for its success and growth.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 09:30 UTC
GAVI to deploy six-in-one vaccine to lower-income countries – New Business Ethiopia
The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today outlined a set of decisions that will expand the portfolio of vaccine programmes available to lower-income countries in the coming years. Hexavalent vaccine: The Board approved Gavi investment in the six-in-one vaccine – a combination of the pentavalent vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b, and the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). 2024 Vaccine Investment Strategy: Looking further ahead, the Board also approved a long list of vaccines to be considered for inclusion in Gavi’s next Vaccine Investment Strategy, which will be finalised by 2024. The Secretariat further reported on plans underway to ensure “day zero” financing for future pandemic vaccine response. “With more than 1 billion unique children reached, one eighth of humanity has now been protected by the Vaccine Alliance.
Source:News Business Ethiopia
June 29, 2023 08:58 UTC
‘Straddling Black and White’ Fictionalizes Operation Moses and Tells a Coming-of-Age Ethiopian-Jewish Story
On November 21, 1984, Israel conducted a covert mission to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews from war-torn Sudan. Called Operation Moses, it was the first of three subsequent missions to save the lives of these Jews and bring them to their ancestral homeland. Author Kim Salzman has fictionalized Operation Moses in her new book, “Straddling Black and White,” about an Ethiopian-Jewish family that is torn apart during the mission. The author hopes that when people read “Straddling Black and White,” they will learn about the sacrifices Ethiopian Jews made during their aliyah journeys. She thinks that once readers are informed, they could become more accepting of Ethiopian olim – and olim in general – and realize that the ingathering of the exiles to Israel is what truly matters.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 08:51 UTC
Babies Born to Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia are being Denied Birth Certificates
Ethiopian refugee authorities stopped the service about 18 months ago during the war in Tigray, which came to an end last November. The northern region, which borders Eritrea, hosted several refugee camps and Eritrean refugees were victimised by all sides in the brutal conflict. The Eritrean families are appealing to the Ethiopian authorities to end their ordeal. The Ethiopian Refugee and Returnees Services (RRS), the agency which is supposed to issue the birth certificates, has not responded to BBC requests for comment. According to the UN refugee agency, more than 157,000 Eritrean refugees are in Ethiopia – most fleeing political persecution and forced conscription.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 08:49 UTC
The heat wave blamed for 13 deaths in Texas so far spreads eastward
Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana blanketed more of the Southeast on Wednesday, stretching government warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures eastward into Mississippi and Tennessee. The National Weather Service warned that the dry, hot, windy conditions were ripe for dangerous fires in parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Mid-week temperatures were forecast to surpass 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius) in much of the Southeast and high humidity was expected to push heat index values above 115 degrees (46 Celsius) in some areas. The 49-year-old from neighboring Bossier City had been found lying on a sidewalk in Shreveport, where Sunday’s temperature hit 97 degrees (36 degrees Celsius) — 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the average for the date. Texas temperatures should then begin to drop from highs above 100 (38 degrees Celsius) degrees to daily temperatures in the 90s, Jackson said.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 08:24 UTC
US says it's horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States humanitarian agency told The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where local officials have reported hundreds of hunger deaths in recent weeks after the U.S. and the United Nations paused food aid for one-sixth of the country's population over massive theft of the aid. In an unusually strong statement emailed to the AP, the U.S. Agency for International Development called the aid suspension “wrenching” and a measure of last resort because of the “extreme scale and coordination of food aid diversion identified across the country." U.S. officials have said in private that this could be the biggest-ever theft of aid in any country. The government, which largely controls the aid delivery process, dismisses as harmful propaganda the suggestion that it bears primary responsibility for the disappearance of aid. The U.S. and U.N. first halted food aid to Tigray in March, and in early June they extended the ban to the rest of Ethiopia, where over 20 million people rely on such assistance.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 08:21 UTC
US Says It's Horrified by Conditions in Ethiopia After Theft Leads to Food Aid Pause and Deaths
In an unusually strong statement emailed to the AP, the U.S. Agency for International Development called the aid suspension “wrenching” and a measure of last resort because of the “extreme scale and coordination of food aid diversion identified across the country." U.S. officials have said in private that this could be the biggest-ever theft of aid in any country. The government, which largely controls the aid delivery process, dismisses as harmful propaganda the suggestion that it bears primary responsibility for the disappearance of aid. It has agreed to a joint investigation with the U.S. while the U.N.’s World Food Program carries out a separate probe. The U.S. and U.N. first halted food aid to Tigray in March, and in early June they extended the ban to the rest of Ethiopia, where over 20 million people rely on such assistance.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 08:20 UTC
US says it’s horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States humanitarian agency told The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where local officials have reported hundreds of hunger deaths in recent weeks after the U.S. and the United Nations paused food aid for one-sixth of the country’s population over massive theft of the aid. The government, which largely controls the aid delivery process, dismisses as harmful propaganda the suggestion that it bears primary responsibility for the disappearance of aid. It has agreed to a joint investigation with the U.S. while the U.N.’s World Food Program carries out a separate probe. The U.S. and U.N. first halted food aid to Tigray in March, and in early June they extended the ban to the rest of Ethiopia, where over 20 million people rely on such assistance. Tigray was the epicenter of a two-year war that ended in November and killed an estimated hundreds of thousands of people.
Source:Ethiopian News
June 29, 2023 08:16 UTC