Ethiopia earns 1.36 billion USD from gold export in six months
Ethiopia has disclosed that it earned 1.36 billion US dollars in revenue from gold exports over the past six months.
Ethiopia has disclosed that it earned 1.36 billion US dollars in revenue from gold exports over the past six months.
More than nine million children are out of school across Ethiopia due to man-made and natural disasters, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed.
The Customs officials have apprehended a Philippine citizen at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) for smuggling cocaine concealed inside capsules inside his stomach.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning over an "extremely concerning malaria surge" in Ethiopia.
Flooding in the last month has impacted 1.5 million people in Ethiopia, displacing more than 600,000 of them from their homes, UN humanitarians said.
Since November 2020, the Tigray war has seen wild swings in the military fortunes of the adversaries ~ in June 2021, the ENDF, after initial success, was routed and Mr Abiy ordered them out of Tigray, declaring a unilateral ceasefire. But Tigray forces rapidly pushed into neighbouring provinces, taking control of the historic town of Lalibela.
State media though has shown no images of Abiy, a 45-year-old former soldier and winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, at the battlefront. The government has not disclosed his location but a spokesman said he had arrived at the front on Tuesday and was joined by other government officials who heeded the call to “save Ethiopia”.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has called upon the Tigray and Oromo Liberation Army to “immediately stop the current advance towards Addis Ababa.
Fighting broke out in November 2020 between government troops and the TPLF, which ruled Ethiopia for decades and now controls Tigray.
There were 16,962 coronavirus active cases nationwide as of Wednesday, of whom 342 were severe, said the ministry.
