Africa: 2019 Most Influential People List Features Six Africans

allAfrica

Time Magazine has published its annual list of the world's most influential people - and six Africans made it on to the list, according to Ugandan website Hire The Youth. Read more »

Ethiopia: 39 People Die in Measles Outbreak - Report

Addis Standard

Addis Standard has quoted a BBC Amharic story that says 39 people have died from measles. Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Digital Economy: Boom, Bang  [opinion]

Addis Standard

A flourishing digital economy is a new feature in the dynamics of the new Ethiopia. Slower as this explosion might be compared to the case in other countries, marked by competitive… Read more »

Ethiopia: Abiy Disinters Demons Buried Over 3,000 Years [opinion]

East African

I hadn't been back to Ethiopia since its zealously reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power a year ago. I finally did. Read more »

Africa: Climate change poses serious challenge towards achieving SDGs [press release]

Economic Commission for Africa

Marrakech, Morocco, April 18, 2019 (ECA) - Climate change can seriously impede Africa’s quest to achieve all the 17 sustainable development goals that address global… Read more »

Africa: ARFSD ministerial panel bold on Africa achieving SDGs [press release]

Economic Commission for Africa

Marrakech, Morocco, April 18, 2019 (ECA) - The high level ministerial panel at the fifth session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD2019) on Wednesday… Read more »

Ethiopia: Gedu, Lemma Moving to Foreign Affairs, Defense Ministries - Ayisha to Move Back to Urban Development and Construction

Addis Standard

Former Amhara regional State president Gedu Andargachew and Oromia Regional State president Lemma Megerssa are two of the nominees expected to be approved by House of People's… Read more »

Africa: The African Regional Round of the John H Jackson Moot Competition [press release]

Kenya School of Law

The African Regional Round of the 17th John H Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO Law will be hosted by Kenya School of Law, Nairobi, Kenya on 23th – 27th April 2019. Read more »

Ethiopia: MSF Launches Intervention As Displacement Crisis Leads to High Malnutrition Rates [press release]

MSF

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a medical intervention in the Gedeo area of southern Ethiopia following a nutritional assessment… Read more »

Ethiopia: Security Forces Injure Arsi Univ. Medical Interns During Protest

Addis Standard

Several interns and last year medical students in Arsi University, Assela city, 175 km south east of Addis Abeba, were injured this morning when security forces attempted to… Read more »

Ethiopia: Alarming Rates of Malnutrition Among Displaced People in Southern Ethiopia [press release]

MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for the welfare of tens of thousands of vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia, following an… Read more »

Ethiopia: Islamic Affairs Supreme Council Denounces Security Forces' Attack On Mosque, Worshipers

Addis Standard

The Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council Addis Abeba office denounced security forces' attack on Abdulqadir mosque and worshipers inside the mosque located in Akaki Kifle… Read more »

Kenya: Ethiopian Airlines Crash - Kenyan Families Advised on Compensation

Nation

The Foreign Affairs ministry has asked families of victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash to secure a Grant of Representation from court in order to get compensation. Read more »

Ethiopia: Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Probe 'Labour Abuses' in Ethiopian Factories

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Fashion giant PVH, which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, said it will investigate reports that Ethiopian workers who make clothes for their high-street stores routinely face… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ivanka Trump Honors Ethiopian Airlines Crash Victims

VOA

Ivanka Trump met with religious leaders Monday in Addis Ababa at Holy Trinity Cathedral, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church. Read more »

Ethiopia: Doing Well By Doing Good? Ask Ethiopia's Garment Workers [opinion]

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Unfortunately for the country's garment workers, there is a yawning gap between the brands' ethical pretentions and the workplace reality for the people sewing their clothes Read more »

Sudan: Ethiopia Affirms Its Support to Measures Taken By Transitional Military Council

SNA

The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) announced that the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has received the visiting member of the Transitional Military Council, Gen. Jalal… Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan Family Files Suit Against Boeing Over Ethiopia Crash

Capital FM

A Kenyan family has sued United States plane manufacturers Boeing over the wrongful death of their kin, George Kabau, in last month's plane crash involving Ethiopian Airlines… Read more »

Kenya: More Lawsuits Against Boeing From Kenyan Families Over Ethiopian Crash

Capital FM

More wrongful death lawsuits against United States plane manufacturer Boeing over last month's Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash are expected to be filed in subsequent weeks with… Read more »

Ethiopia: Presidential Advisor Ivanka Trump, OPIC Chief Announce U.S.$1 Billion Women's Investment Initiative [press release]

OPIC

David Bohigian, Acting President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government's development finance institution, and Advisor to the President… Read more »

Ethiopia: Investment Commission, Africa Advisory Partners Sign MoU to Promote FDI

Addis Standard

The Ethiopian Investment Commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Africa Advisory Partners (AAP), an advisory firm that help clients establish and execute… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the U.S. President, Arrives in Addis Ababa [press release]

U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa

White House Advisor to the U.S. President Ivanka Trump arrived in Addis Ababa today, April 14, for a two-day visit that will focus on African women's economic inclusion and… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia Sweeps Paris Marathon As Calvin Smashes French Record

RFI

Ethiopian Abrha Milaw upstaged two-time defending champion Paul Lonyangata to win the Paris Marathon on Sunday. Read more »

Ethiopia: USAID Administrator Mark Green and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump Meet With Women Business Owners in Ethiopia

USAID

Today, USAID Administrator Mark Green and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump met with businesswomen in the coffee industry at Dumerso Coffee in Addis Ababa to discuss… Read more »

Ethiopia: Country Gets its First Pediatric Hospital

Addis Fortune

Bengt Van Loosdrecht, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ethiopia, Admasu Nebebe state minister for Finance, and Liya Tadesse, state minister of Health, (from left to… Read more »