Muhamad Yehia ..ADDIS ABABA The Ethiopian Orthodox priest reached the site of the explosion just minutes after the missile had hit. It was a scene of complete devastation. “It was horrific,” he told The New Humanitarian. “The place was littered with body parts of dead people, intact dead bodies, and …
Read More »Tensions rise in Horn of Africa as Ethiopia searches for a route to the sea
Muhama Yehia – ADDIS ABABA Tensions are running high in the Horn of Africa as Somalia continues to demand Ethiopia annuls a controversial port deal with the breakaway republic of Somaliland, or else withdraw its troops from Somali territory. The biggest signal of Somalia’s displeasure with the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal was …
Read More »Global warming threaten Africa’s longest river
Running from Uganda to Egypt, the Nile is essential to the survival of millions of people living in Africa. But a combination of climate change and human overuse is drying up the river, and worsening conditions for farmers who fear low harvests and loss of electricity. At more than 6,600 …
Read More »Ethiopians hold pro-government rallies, denounce West
Several towns and cities in Ethiopia have held anti-Western rallies today. The rallies are believed to have been organized by local governments in support of the federal government’s latest offensive in the ongoing war in the Tigray region. Local government officials and their supporters, attracted hundreds of thousands of people …
Read More »Starvation haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray region
“There is an extreme urgent need — I don’t know what more words in English to use — to rapidly scale up the humanitarian response because the population is dying every day as we speak,” the head of the emergency unit for Doctors Without Borders told the AP. Starvation is …
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