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Ethiopia: Dozens Arrested After City Bomb Blast - Police
Bahir Dar city police say dozens of people are being held after a bomb exploded there yesterday, according to Addis Standard. No casualties were reported.
The city’s police chief, Commander Walelegn Dagnew, blamed both the explosion,...
Ethiopia: Parliament Ends State of Emergency
AllAfrica
Cape Town — Ethiopia lifted the state of emergency first imposed in October 2016, according to Addis Standard. An emergency session by members of parliament was called to make the decision on Friday.
The House of Representatives...
Taxation With Repression and the Raging Quiet Riot in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
James Otis, an early instigator of the American revolution, captured the rebellious sentiments and resentments of the colonists when he proclaimed, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
In 1765, Otis organized an intercolonial conference...
Ethiopia: Meeting deadly disease head-on (Report)
From UNOPS
Ethiopia is one of the countries hardest hit by the strongest El Niño event in history. The natural hazards that followed have left more than 5 million people in need of life-saving emergency assistance.
Amidst the worst drought...
Elephant Kills Spanish Tourist in Ethiopia
ibtimes
July 24, 2017 – A Spanish tourist, who was visiting Ethiopia’s Chebera-Churchura Nature Park, died after being trampled and gored by an elephant in Chebera-Churchura Nature Park, located in Southern part of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian...
Ethiopia anti-tax protests spread (CNBC Africa)
by CNBC Africa
Jared Jeffrey, NKC African Economics – According to ESAT, protests by small business owners, which began last week in Addis Ababa and parts of Oromia, have spread to towns in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’...
EU commend Ethiopia’s initiative to make political reforms (Sudantribune)
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
July 20, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) – The European Union (EU) on Thursday commended the ruling party, Ethiopia peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) for opening space for dialogue with opposition parties.
Currently,...
Arrested Eritrean Patriarch Makes First Appearence in Decade at Sunday Mass (REUTERS)
(PHOTO: REUTERS/RONEN ZVULU)Eritrean Orthodox Christian pilgrims chant during a ceremony at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the banks of the Jordan River near the West Bank city of Jericho January 19, 2012.
For the first time since...