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Biden Appoints Tsione Wolde-Michael, First Black Leader of President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Biden picks rising star at the Smithsonian to head presidential arts committee dissolved by the Trump administrationTsione Wolde-Michael, director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the first Black leader of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Tsione Wolde-Michael, the new executive director of

Ethiopia brings new opportunities to the United States with the creation of 1600 jobs

WASHINGTON –On Thursday, the Board of Directors for the Export-Import Bank of the United States’ (EXIM) unanimously approved two transactions totaling more than $688 million. These transactions will create thousands of American jobs and bolster U.S. support of exports to the United Kingdom and Ethiopia. The Board’s first transaction guarantees $281 million from the Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO)

Spotify now available in Ethiopia

The music streaming giant, Spotify, is now available in Ethiopia. The new development allows users in Ethiopia to access over 80 million tracks, including 4.7 million podcasts, for free. Users in Ethiopia will also be able to access Spotify in Amharic. Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, with 456 million users,

The federal government and Tigrayan senior military commanders are meeting in Nairobi to adopt the Terms of Reference for the African Union’s (AU) monitoring,

Representatives from the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan senior commanders are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya for a three-day consultative meeting on the implementation of the Ethiopia Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA). The meeting, which was originally scheduled for 20-23 December but has since been moved to 21 December, will involve discussions on the outcome

Fitch Downgrades Ethiopia to ‘CCC-‘; Removes From UCO

Fitch’s proprietary SRM assigns Ethiopia a score equivalent to a rating of ‘CCC+’ on the Long-Term Foreign-Currency IDR scale. However, in accordance with its rating criteria, Fitch’s sovereign rating committee has not utilised the SRM and QO to explain the ratings in this instance. Ratings of ‘CCC+’ and below are instead guided by the rating

HAILE GERIMA MOVIE Bush Mama joins the national film registry

Every year, 25 movies are added to the National Film Registry to be preserved for posterity by the Library of Congress. Intended to reflect the depth and breadth of American filmmaking, the selections always feature blockbuster titles intended to generate attention. The biggest one this year is Iron Man that launched Marvel Studios as an inescapable force in American

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has resumed services in Shire, Alamata and Korem

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has resumed services in Shire, Alamata and Korem following the recent peace agreement. The bank noted that it was also forced to suspend banking services due to instability in northern Ethiopia. Following the recent peace agreement, the branches in Shire, Alamata and Korem towns have started receiving and depositing foreign

Ethiopia Obtains Phone-hacking Tech From Israeli Firm Cellebrite

As with many other repressive regimes, the Ethiopian federal police have been using Cellebrite’s technology at the height of a civil war that caused tens of thousands of casualties and the prosecution of ‘unauthorized’ news outlets The Ethiopian police, who according to reports, are responsible for mass detention of minorities and persecution of opposition forces

Marcus Samuelsson on his new Chelsea restaurant Hav & Mar

Marcus Samuelsson is a household name near and far. The latest from the owner of Red Rooster in Harlem and Marcus at the Four Seasons Hotel Montreal, among others, just landed in Chelsea. “I really wanted to think about the restaurant in Chelsea as being part of the iconic creative community that makes up the neighborhood,” the