An orthodox faithful Monk attends the Good Friday prayers at the Wukro Cherkos Rock Hewn church in Wukro, Tigray region, Ethiopia. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
An Ethiopian Orthodox faithful girl wears a palm headband as she attends the Palm Sunday Mass at the Bole Medhanialem Orthodox church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 28. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
"#Ethiopia plans to plant 5 billion trees in 2024 as it seeks to foster #ClimateChange mitigation as the country faces extreme environmental events including drought and torrential rains.
Over 90% of the country’s estimated 110 million-strong population obtain energy from biomass, but unsustainable harvest from natural forests resulted in the widening of the gap between supply and demand of forest."
#Ethiopia has a population of 120 million, and 1.3 million cars. They plan to import only #ElectricCars
"The groundbreaking and ambitious proposal is a stark departure from the rest of the world, as many are waiting years to halt the sale of cars that run on dirty energy sources."
About half the population in #Ethiopia has access to electricity.
So expanding electricity access is crucial for electrifying transportation.
But financing for such projects in African countries can be three times as expensive as the same kind of projects in, say, Europe. The World Bank and the IMF can - and must - do a lot to stop the redlining of this entire continent, which needs to develop on clean energy.
Researchers now have unlocked the genome of the #Arabica species and traced its origins to a natural mating between two other coffee species an estimated 610,000 to one million years ago in the forests of #Ethiopia. That makes this species older than our own species #HomoSapiens, which arose in #Africa about 300,000 years ago.
Ikhlas was from #Ethiopia#Africa who came to #India in c1600 CE
Many of the immigrants who came from there rose to important positions in the courts of various courts of the #Indian Kingdoms.
Seems like #DeathSquad s in #Ethiopia are nothing terribly new, but the "good" thing about #KoreeNageenyaa is that Reuters did an investigation [1] and the #EthiopianHumanRightsCommission reacted quickly to it, and it seems to have become part of public debate in Ethiopia [2][3].
The Ethiopian military summarily executed several dozen civilians and committed other war crimes on January 29, 2024, in the town of Merawi in Ethiopia’s northwestern Amhara region, Human Rights Watch said today. The incident was among the deadliest for civilians during the fighting between Ethiopian federal forces and Fano...
Ethiopia’s army “summarily executed several dozen civilians” and committed other war crimes in the northwestern Amhara region earlier this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said, as it called on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation....
Another famine, another use of starvation as a weapon of war. Yet again, it's the children who suffer first.
"Current IPC hunger projections suggest the majority of Tigray is experiencing “emergency” levels of hunger, with predictions that “some households will likely face ‘catastrophe/famine’ by July”.
Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to return The British Museum is being investigated by the information watchdog over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian altar tablets that...
Ethiopia: Military Executes Dozens in Amhara Region (www.hrw.org)
The Ethiopian military summarily executed several dozen civilians and committed other war crimes on January 29, 2024, in the town of Merawi in Ethiopia’s northwestern Amhara region, Human Rights Watch said today. The incident was among the deadliest for civilians during the fighting between Ethiopian federal forces and Fano...
Ethiopia’s army accused of committing war crimes in Amhara region (www.aljazeera.com)
Ethiopia’s army “summarily executed several dozen civilians” and committed other war crimes in the northwestern Amhara region earlier this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said, as it called on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation....
British Museum investigated over Ethiopian artefacts hidden from view for 150 years (www.theguardian.com)
Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to return The British Museum is being investigated by the information watchdog over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian altar tablets that...