For Uganda and Ethiopia, it’s $200m less in US...
For Uganda and Ethiopia, it’s $200m less in US aid
by Allan Olingo |Uganda and Ethiopia will be the biggest losers in the region in the US President Donald Trump administration proposal to do away with all funding through the development assistance account, instead channelling these monies towards economic assistance.
According to a State Department budget document seen by The EastAfrican, the 2017/18 budget proposes a 30.8 per cent cut to overall foreign aid. In Africa, Washington is looking at saving $777.1 million from the proposed budget cuts prepared early this month. Read more
Ethiopia is facing a killer drought. But it’s...
Ethiopia is facing a killer drought. But it’s going almost unnoticed
World Food Program supplies are distributed in a village in Jijiga district, part of Ethiopia’s Somali region. (Michael Tewelde/World Food Program)
By Paul Schemm | The announcement by the United Nations in March that 20 million people in four countries were teetering on the edge of famine stunned the world and rammed home the breadth of the humanitarian crisis faced by so many in 2017. Yet even as donors struggle to meet the severe needs in the war-torn nations of Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, another crisis, more environmental in nature, is taking place nearby — nearly unnoticed. Read more
US Issues Travel Warning Following Grenade Attacks...
US Issues Travel Warning Following Grenade Attacks in Gondar
The United States issued a warning Thursday to its citizens about travelling to a popular tourist region in Ethiopia after a string of grenade attacks targeting hotels and homes, according to AFP report. Read more
Eritrea – Ethiopia Boundary Commission
Eritrea – Ethiopia Boundary Commission
Eritrea – Ethiopia Conflict and Resolution
The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission was established pursuant to an agreement dated 12 December 2000, alternately entitled “Agreement between the Government of the State of Eritrea and the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia” and “Agreement between the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Government of the State of Eritrea”.
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Adisie Zeleke – Ethiopia: A member of...
Adisie Zeleke – Ethiopia: A member of Parliament found dead at her office
A member of the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives was found dead at her office on Tuesday. The burial of Adisie Zeleke was conducted on Wednesday in the city of Bahir Dar. Zeleke, 48, represents the Amhara region and her party, the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), is one of the four parties forming the coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
ESAT’s sources said the death of the MP, who was one of the critic of the government at the Parliament especially regarding the recent declaration of the state of emergency, was suspicious. Members of the ANDM at the House have reportedly objected to the martial law, which was declared after a yearlong uprising in the Amhara and Oromo regions that shook the tyrannical regime to the core. Her body was rushed to Bahir Dar without undergoing postmortem examination in Addis Ababa, one of the two places in the country where such examination is available. Zeleke worked at various departments in the Amhara region before she became a member of parliament in 2015.
Several members of the ANDM have died in mysterious circumstances in the past. ESAT has documented at least ten suspicious deaths of members of the ANDM.
Zeleke, a widow, is survived by two children.
