Ravaged Ethiopia Reaches for APCO
APCO Worldwide has inked an open-ended contract to provide strategic communications and media relations services to Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country with 121M people, which has been ravaged by war and drought. Ethiopia was the site of the world’s bloodiest war last year, according to Comfort Ero, head of the Crisis Group. An estimated 600K died in Ethiopia’s Tigray region between 2020 and 2022 as the government battled the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The International Rescue Committee ranks Ethiopia as the country, after Somalia, most at risk of a worsening humanitarian crisis in 2023. APCO has a seven-member team assigned to the Ethiopia account.
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August 01, 2023 20:58 UTC
WB President on Official Visit to Ethiopia
By Staff ReporterADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA) – Prime Minister received the World Bank President, Ajay Banga at his office and held discussion on expanding global lender’s scope of bilateral relation with Ethiopia. The premier briefed the WB president about the economic reforms and the progress Ethiopia has embarked on. Abiy expressed his hope saying that the World Bank would be instrumental to the economic growth and expanding the scope of partnership with Ethiopia. The WB President who arrived here for a two-day official visit “commended Ethiopia’s focus on key development goals despite many challenges encountered domestically and in the global arena”. Banga is on his tour along with his team members that include Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, and Mohamed Gouled, International Finance Corporation Vice President for Industries.
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August 01, 2023 19:56 UTC
Fallout of war and drought leaves Ethiopians mired in poverty
That means 20 million Ethiopians who rely on food aid – one sixth of the population – are now going hungry. In Addis Ababa, the poverty rate may have risen from 17.8% to 24% in 2016-22, according to UNDP. Roughly 5.4 million of Tigray’s 6 million people still rely on food aid, but most have not received any since mid-March because of the aid delivery freeze. As a result of the food aid suspension, “what I have seen with my own eyes is a huge number of people starving and even dying”, they told The New Humanitarian. As competition with Russia and China heats up against the backdrop of the Ukraine war, there are signs that Western donors are keen to re-engage with Ethiopia.
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August 01, 2023 19:55 UTC
News: Army warns to take actions against actors “disturbing peace” in the name of “Fano”; admits members ambushed in Amhara region
Colonel Getnet Adane, Director of ENDF Public Relations Directorate. Photo: ENDFAddis Abeba – The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) issued warning this afternoon to take “actions” against forces that it said were “disturbing the country’s peace in the name of Fano”, the non-state armed group currently engaged in militarized conflict with the army and regional forces in the Amhara regional state. Colonel Getnet Adane, Director of ENDF Public Relations Directorate, who issued the statement to state media this afternoon, also admitted recent reports that senior members of the army were ambushed in the West Denbiya Woreda in Central Gonder Zone of the Amhara regional state. The immediate causes of the current instability in the regional state followed mass protests in several major cities against the federal government’s decision to reorganize regional special forces into regular police and the national army have quickly led to widespread instability and the subsequent assassination on 27 April of the Head of the ruling Prosperity Party in the region, Girma Yeshitila. He referenced on a “constructive dialogue held with local communities, youths, and elders,” following the 26 July ambushes, which he said “concluded with a unanimous agreement to seek peace.” AS
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August 01, 2023 19:15 UTC
Rwanda advised to improve public investment efficiency – New Business Ethiopia
A new technical report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released today advised Rwanda to improve its public investment efficiency mainly by working on quality and access to its infrastructures. “Rwanda scores well against the IMF methodology that assesses public investment efficiency, but there is still significant room to improve. The IMF has developed a methodology to assess the efficiency of public investment through the development of an efficiency frontier. “On this measure, Rwanda sits at the public investment efficiency frontier. Measured against other sub-Saharan countries, Rwanda performs well in the design and effectiveness of public investment management institutions.
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August 01, 2023 14:21 UTC
Taste of Ethiopia returns this weekend
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August 01, 2023 14:03 UTC
News: Ethiopian diaspora members hold first peace conference, seek ceasefire to conflicts in Oromia and Amhara regions
The first Ethiopian Diaspora Peace Conference (Photo: Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice)Addis Abeba – Members of the Ethiopian diaspora constituting representatives of communities from Somali, Oromo, Amhara and Tegaru have held the first Ethiopian Diaspora Peace Conference from July 21-22, 2023 at the University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. ***July 23, 2023Ethiopian Diaspora Peace Conference, July 21-22, 2023University of San DiegoThe Kroc Institute for Peace and JusticeOn July 21-22, 2023, the first Ethiopian Diaspora Peace Conference was held at the University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. The conference was attended by diverse Ethiopian diaspora members drawn mainly from the Somali, Oromo, Amhara, and Tigray communities. Representatives of Oromo, Tigray and Somali communities all agreed upon the following:1. There was also a call for making participation more inclusive with a robust outreach to all members of the various Ethiopian Diaspora communities and to other Ethiopian advocacy organizations who share similar objectives.
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August 01, 2023 13:34 UTC
Ethiopian Israelis Living in Absorption Centers Without Air Conditioning in Intense Summer Heat
Ethiopian immigrants living in nine absorption centers across Israel have been dealing with the intense summer heat over the past several months without air conditioning. The migrants were provided portable air conditioners some two years ago by the Jewish Agency, which oversees the centers, but tenants say they still cannot handle the heat waves. Credit: Amir LevySome of the tenants at Hanita bought permanent air conditioners with their own money and installed them in their apartments. The Jewish Agency stated: "The Hanit Absorption Center is operated under the joint responsibility of The Aliyah and Integration Ministry and the Jewish Agency. Since there were no fixed air conditioners in the building rented to receive the immigrants, portable air conditioners were previously provided to all the tenants who were taken in.
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August 01, 2023 13:28 UTC
News: Ethiopia unveils first-ever industrial strategy to boost domestic production, reduce imports
Among the incentives offered will be streamlined access to foreign currency, addressing a longstanding obstacle that has hampered the importation of essential inputs. These industries have enjoyed advantages such as favorable land lease rates, soft loans, tax incentives, and convenient access to foreign currency. However, despite these efforts, the country’s annual export revenue from the industry sector has remained stagnant at approximately $350 million. Furthermore, the ongoing conflict in multiple regions of Ethiopia, notably in the north, has further hampered the productivity of the manufacturing sector. However, the shortage of foreign currency has led to difficulties in opening letter of credit (LC) accounts at commercial banks.
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August 01, 2023 11:38 UTC
Ethiopian Airlines A350 touches down in Maribor
NEWS FLASHMaribor Airport welcomed Ethiopian Airlines’ five-year-old 343-seat Airbus A350-900 aircraft over the weekend, which arrived to pick up officials and competitors who took part in the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival hosted by the city. The aircraft operated its scheduled service between Addis Ababa and Paris, before being deployed on the Maribor charter, after which it followed with the scheduled return between the French capital and its hub in Ethiopia. The A350’s arrival in Maribor is not the first time the type had landed in Slovenia. In 2014, as part of Airbus tests on the aircraft’s breaking system in wet conditions, the type landed in Ljubljana.
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August 01, 2023 11:31 UTC
World Bank to address Ethiopia's poor nutrition and low learning outcomes
The Government of Ethiopia and the World Bank have signed a financing agreement for the Human Capital Operation (HCO), a program aimed at addressing Ethiopia's poor nutrition and low learning outcomes. With a budget of $400 million, this program is set to make a significant impact on the lives of 97 million Ethiopians and 800,000 refugees. The World Bank approved the program on June 16, 2023, recognizing the crucial need to improve education and nutrition services nationwide. Even prior to the crises, Ethiopian and refugee children had poor nutrition and low learning outcomes. Ethiopia’s HCI score is pulled down by a high stunting rate and poor child learning outcomes.
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August 01, 2023 11:29 UTC
GLOBALink | Chinese military doctors help Ethiopian patients regain health and enjoy lasting friendship
More than 80 Chinese medical experts have been dispatched in 9 batches to Ethiopia over the past 9 years for missions centered on military-public health cooperation. They were able to help many patients regain health despite limited resources and won lasting friendships in return. Produced by Xinhua Global Service ■
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August 01, 2023 11:24 UTC
Nigerian president justifies removal of fuel subsidy
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu addressed the nation in an evening broadcast on Monday, acknowledging the economic hardship caused by the removal of a subsidy on petrol. He however said the country would save "trillions of naira" yearly by scrapping the subsidy and that the money would be used to implement reforms that would help boost the economy. Ending the decades-long subsidy has more than doubled the price of petrol and raised prices for food and other essentials. But Tinubu said the government had created a fund to use the savings to build much-needed infrastructure and supply cheap loans to farmers, small businesses and students. He said the government would monitor petrol prices and intervene if and when it was necessary to do so.
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August 01, 2023 11:19 UTC
Kidnapped Israeli freed in special forces raid in Ethiopia
Francis Adbabayi was brought to a nearby city and is expected to return to Israel in the coming days. The Israeli embassy in Ethiopia was updated by the local police about the developments. I wouldn’t wish this on my enemies.”Some days later, Israeli and Ethiopian police indicated that they suspected the abduction to be a hoax. Adbabayi’s family allegedly contacted National Unity party Knesset Member Pnina Tamano-Shata after becoming disillusioned with the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s handling of the matter. Adbabayi's family then held negotiations with the kidnappers, who demanded 2.5 million Ethiopian birr, (approximately $44,000), according to a Kan news report.
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August 01, 2023 11:08 UTC
Maternal, infant mortality on the rise says Ethiopian Ombudsman
The institution of Ethiopian Ombudsman was established in the year 2000By Staff ReporterADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA) – Ethiopian Institute of the Ombudsman (EIO) disclosed that maternal and infant mortality is increasing due to failure of the health institutions to act as per the national and international standards, sources said. The Weekly Amharic, Reporter has mentioned certain causes that contributed for the considerable increment of the maternal and infant mortality rate in 2022/23 Ethiopian Fiscal Year. In the present-day Ethiopia health institutions have made their focus of attention on inpatients or on people who visit the health institutions for treatment rather than preventing the diseases. The reduction of maternal and child mortality in Addis Ababa in the current 2022/23 Ethiopian Budget Year is four times higher than that of the previous FY, according to the news source. These inpatients who visit the city’s health institutions die while receiving treatment thereby increasing the maternal and infant mortality rate.
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August 01, 2023 08:41 UTC