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Ethiopia
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Breaking: #UN Sec. General António Guterres calls on #Eritrean forces to leave #Tigray. He “fully supports” the statement made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @mbachelet,his spokesperson said. Earlier Bachelet called for access to Tigray to probe possible war crime.
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#Ethiopia: A team led by Dr. Abebe Bezabih and Dr. Ayalew Tizazu has conducted the first open heart surgery with a full Ethiopian cardiac team of Tikur Anbessa for a left atrial myxoma excision procedure today. Congratulations on a step forwards!
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“We started in #Pretoria, we are inching our way closer & are now in #Nairobi, we are very hopeful that next time we will be in #Mekelle for our meeting and ultimately celebrate together in #AddisAbeba. This is the prayer, hope & it is what we seek,” former Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta
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Breaking: Immediate withdrawal of #Eritrean, #Amhara region forces from #Tigray, unilateral cessation of hostilities by all & unhindered delivery of assistance: @SecBlinken The "USAID will deploy a Disaster Assistance Response Team to #Ethiopia.".
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#Ethiopia: Watch the very moment the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize is announced. Presented by Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize. Courtesy @NobelPrize . Team Addis Standard would like to Congratulate Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli
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#Ethiopia: Public notice suspending our activities! .The management of JAKENN deeply regrets and is disturbed by the decision taken today by the Ethiopian Media Authority (@EthMediaAuth) to recall JAKENN's recently issued media license without due explanation.
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#Ethiopia: As per IPI’s Death Watch, "at least 49 journalists were killed over the last 12 months. Of those, as many as 43 were murdered in retaliation for their work." . On this #WorldPressFreedomDay, team AS pays tribute to slain Journalist Dawit Kebede of formerly #Tigray TV.
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Breaking:PM #AbiyAhmed due to announce his new cabinet. The new ministerial portfolio will have a record number of female ministers consisting 10 out of the 20 ministers. This include the position of ministry of defense, which will be held by a woman for the first time in history
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Breaking: Report received by the UN “just this morning” reveals 150 people died of hunger in #Tigray; #Eritrean forces, #Amhara region authorities restricting humanitarian access "This should alarm us all. It is a sign of what lies ahead. " @UNReliefChief.
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#Ethiopia : News: Members of Karrayyu Gadaa leadership killed, several others missing amid conflicting narratives in East Showa zone Oromia “We don’t know the whereabouts of the remaining people.”.
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#Ethiopia: "Through hard work & persistence, it's possbl to score the needed result," Biruk Zewdu, a student of Ayelech Degefu Memorial School in #BahirDar. Biruk scored 645, the highest grade throughout 🇪🇹in this yr's national school leaving exam. ADMS was built by @HaileGebr.
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#NewsAlert: Addis Abeba Islamic Affairs’ High Council said in a statement that the number of people killed in #Gonder city yesterday has risen to 21, and that the attack was a "planned massacre"; mosques & the Qur'an were burned & women were raped. This is a developing story.
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#Ethiopia; Today an Ethiopian team has successfully performed Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) (LIMA to LAD) plus AVR (Aortic valve replacement) in a 55 years old male patient in a 6 hours long surgery, a first in Ethiopia.
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#Ethiopia: Dr. Mohamed Ali is a GP in Warder General hospital,Doollo zone, #Somali region. In his spare time he is teaching fellow high school students subjects such as Chemistry & Biology in the same school he attended his secondary education. #Patriotism.
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"The restoration of basic services & free movement of people, goods, & services, can neither be disputed nor negotiated. The gov't of #Ethiopia is expected to fulfill its obligations to the people of #Tigray & beyond without further delay,”@JosepBorrellF .
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Key points raised by @antonioguterres. *The situation in #Ethiopia is spiraling out of control. *Violence & destruction have reached alarming level. * Hostilities in the #Tigray region must end now, including the immediate withdrawal & disengagement of #Eritrean armed forces .
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#Ethiopia: Major development as PM #AbiyAhmed speaks about #Italy's pledge to finance the first phase of study for a planned railway line which will link #Eritrea's port of #Massawa with #AddisAbeba. He said this during a joint press briefing with Italian PM Giuseppe Conte.
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Update: According to the translation summary of #Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi’s speech at the signing of the MoU with #Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed this afternoon, Somaliland will lease 20 KM of sea to Ethiopia in return for recognition. Quote: . “The Federal Republic of
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#US Congressman Scott Perry introduces bill to recognize #Somaliland as independent state. U.S. Representative Scott Perry has introduced a new bill in Congress advocating for the recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state. House Bill 10402 underscores
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#Tigray:Despite the airlifting of medical & nutrition supplies since Jan, access to health remains minimal, particularly in rural areas where lack of fuel has impacted the distribution of medicines.Lack of fuel &.commercial supply has prompted a sharp increase of commodity prices
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#Ethiopia-#Tigray: In pictures. Emotional reunion of families who were torn apart since 28 June 2021, when fed. gov. disconnected Tigray from basic services including transport, telecom & banking. Today, @flyethiopian landed its 1st commercial flight in #Mekelle. Pics: Tigray TV.
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Breaking: #Ethiopian government issued a declaration of humanitarian truce in the #Tigray regional state effective today. It also calls for a significant increase in the support of humanitarian assistance by the international community. this story is developing. .
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Congratulations Freweini Mebrahtu on being the 2019 CNN Hero of the year! . "This moment is not just for me, this moment is for every girl", Freweini. Congratulations the entire family at @MariamSebaPads 💃💃. And Congratulations #Ethiopia!! 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
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Today marks 9 years since #Ethiopia launched the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), known as "Project X" before the launching date. The late PM Meles Zenawi,widely accredited for initiating the project,had once said this to an Egyptian media. G. Night!
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#Breaking: #Ethiopia signs "historic" MoU with #Somaliland to "secure access to the #Sea and diversify its access to #Seaports" . The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland's President Muse Bihi Abdi who is on a state visit
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#Ethiopia: #Tigray interim president criticizes #US embassy diplomats’ visit to occupied southern Tigray @reda_getachew said the visit by U.S Embassy diplomats in Addis Abeba to #Alamata, a city that is part of the southern Tigray zone but is currently.
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#EU calls on #Ethiopia to reconnect #Tigray region to the world .“I do not see the rationale for keeping the blockade of banking services, electricity & telecommunications in place,” @JanezLenarcic said.
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#Somaliland’s 64th Anniversary 1960-2024. On Wednesday, millions in Somaliland are celebrating the 64th anniversary of independence from Britain on 26th June 1960. In connection with the celebrations, Abdirahman Abdillahi Jibril (Awliyo) writes that the day is a special day in
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Former #Ethiopian health minister to lead Harvard ministerial leadership program. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, who served as Ethiopia's Minister of Health from 2020 to 2024, has been appointed the new executive director of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. The program, a
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Lord Cameron 'sympathetic' to making surprise diplomatic move to fix #Red_Sea #Houthi crisis. Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has met with a senior Tory MP to discuss the formal recognition of a #Somaliland as the Red Sea crisis escalates. Lord Cameron has had discussions about
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For the first time in decades, the ban on the type of flag Ethiopians want to carry was lifted many felt free to waive the flag they cherish. "I cannot tell you the hope that sparks in me when I see you Ethiopians who have come together for love, and for forgiveness" PM Abiy
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#Ethiopia Statement on the baseless accusations and dangerous defamation by state-affiliated FBC against Addis Standard publication the newsroom members of Addis Standard are receiving alarming threats from anonymous individuals including death threats.
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Good AM! Judging from pics. of family reunions when Ethiopian Airlines landed in #Asmara y'day, it's hard to imagine this happened in the 21st century. Among the pics, Addisalem Hadgun (*1st pic.), ETV Tigrigna program reporter, who was separated with his daughters 20 years ago!
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#Ethiopia: #Orthodox priest stranded at #Addis_Abeba Airport, says his rights violated by security forces Speaking to Addis Standard by phone from the airport, where he is stranded for the last two days, Aba Serekebirhan expressed his frustrations and.
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#Just_In: #Ethiopia-#Somaliland . Ethiopian National Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff, Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, and Somaliland Chief of the General Staff, Major general Nuh Ismail Tani, met and discuss today “to work together on military cooperation”, ENDF said. A
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#Ethiopia: Major landmarks in #AbuDhabi were lit up last night in the tricolor of the #Ethiopian flag in celebration of Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli's #NobelPeacePrize. #Ethiopia 🇪🇹 #UAE🇦🇪.
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#Ethiopia: BBC Reality Check look at a video showing a massacre of unarmed men & investigate who might have carried it out. The massacre took place in Chefa Robit Oromo zone of the Amhara region. *Warning: Contains distressing images of death & violence.
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#NewsAlert: @RESCUE_UK confirmed that #Tekeze bridge in #Tigray "has been destroyed." . "This was one of the main supply routes into Tigray which means aid efforts will be even more severely hampered than before."
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#NewsAlert: #EU Council sees not enough progress in #Ethiopia to normalize relations ". any move should be conditional & transactional. " & progress must be made from “restoring basic services in #Tigray [to] lifting restrictions on fuel & fertilizers.”.
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Update: "From the sources I spoke to, they were farmers in the west before they were displaced. There is no way they were special forces, special police or #Tigray militias. It's a kind of mass arrest without any grounds," @FissehaTekle of @amnesty said.
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Calls grow for Ilhan Omar to be expelled from #Congress after she says she’s advocating for her homeland of #Somalia. Democrat congresswoman #Ilhan_Omar faced calls for removal from Congress after remarks at a Minnesota event where she advocated for Somalia, her birthplace. In a
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Today #DrCatherineHamlin is celebrating her 95th birthday "and a 60-year career dedicated to women with #obstetricfistula. #HamlinFistulaEthiopia has now operated on more than 60,000 women in #Ethiopia to repair their fistula injuries." .#HappyBirthday 🎂
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.@AfricaResearch @halelule @SolomonADersso On #landgrab in #Somaliland: "it's true that people are grabbing land, not small, but huge land, and it's causing problem", FM Sa'ad.
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News: War in #Tigray takes a toll on children Medical professionals at Ayder Referral Hospital said 139 children from Mekelle & its environs alone have come to the hospital seeking treatment for injuries. Of these, 11 have died; 39 are permanently disabled.
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Obituary: Prominent #Tigrigna music singer #DawitNega passes away after short illness His final single, “Ajoki Tigray”, is a song in which he expressed his tribute and longing for the people and families of Tigray who are separated due to the civil war.
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#Somaliland tells diplomats in #Hargeisa #MoU with #Ethiopia ‘finalized’, ‘formal legal agreement imminent’. This is the second major statement about the MoU from Somaliland after its announcement in February this year that Somaliland was “on course without any wavering, and
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#Ethiopia: @SecBlinken: Acts of 'ethnic cleansing' committed in Western #Tigray "Blinken said that first forces from #Eritrea and #Amhara must leave and be replaced by "a force that will not abuse the human rights of the people of Tigray. ".
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Op-ed:Resignation is the honorable and right thing for President Obasanjo to do "Peace is what all #Ethiopians crave now. The fighting need to stop & negotiation need to commence now before more young lives are consumed by this phase of the war", @DrMehari.
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#Ethiopia: Members of Congress call for sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights abuses in #WesternTigray. Three U.S. Congress members are demanding sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights abuses in Western Tigray, Ethiopia. Brad.
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#Ethiopia:Recently released leaders of #Oromo Federalist Congress (#OFC) were received at party's HQ in #AddisAbeba."We renew our call for immediate release of our remaining members, Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) leaders & all political prisoners,"OFC said.
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Anger & collective trauma scar #Ethiopia's #Tigray . ."One woman was held captive for over ten days, raped by 23 #Eritrean soldiers, then left on the side of the road. Surgeons had to remove stones & nails that had been inserted inside her. " #WomensDay
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Breaking: PM #AbiyAhmed is in a meeting at Watergate Hotel in D.C. with #BerhanuNega, leader of Patriotic Ginbot 7, a former rebel group which was labeled by Ethiopian parliament as a terrorist organization until recently. #PG7 recently announced it was ceasing all armed struggle
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#Ethiopia: Premier to Nominate Female as Chief Justice. Meaza Ashenafi, a prominent lawyer now working for the UN in #AddisAbeba, is to swear-in before Parliament as Ethiopia's first female Chief Justice, @addis_fortune.
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