Culture

Tella: An Old Ethiopian Traditional Beverage Finds Its Way To The City

Tella has been one of the most underrated cultural drinks in Ethiopia. It embodied the culture of a long history in Ethiopia, dominantly in the rural areas of the country. It’s a tradition that has been adored by many and yet never seems to break out of its common crowds. There are many kinds of

December 6, 2021 • By Addis Insight

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Loza Tadesse: Influential Ethiopian Woman Under 30

Loza Tadesse, an incoming assistant professor in the engineering department at MIT, is developing diagnostics for extreme environments. To that end, she has developed a rapid system using machine learning and a light scattering approach that can identify infectious bacteria much faster which will lead both to better treatments and less reliance on the use of

December 3, 2021 • By Addis Insight

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Three Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs that are changing the Dynamics of AI Design

Arize AI is a start-up with a dynamic founding team, Tsion Behailu, Aparna Dhinakaran, and Manisha Sharma  (along with five others, all over 30). The startup, which enables customers to monitor the performance of AI models using software that looks for things such as unforeseen biases in algorithms, has $24.5 million in funding from Battery

December 2, 2021 • By Addis Insight

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This Day In History: Flight 961 was hijacked by three Ethiopian men

On November 23, 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi when the plane was hijacked by three Ethiopians. the three Ethiopian men charged the cockpit and hijacked the aircraft after taking an ax and a fire extinguisher from the cockpit.  Ethiopian state-operated radio later identified the hijackers as two unemployed

November 23, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Africa News

Judge OKs Boeing Agreement to Settle Ethiopian Airlines Crash Claims

A U.S. judge on Monday approved Boeing Co’s agreement to acknowledge liability for compensatory damages in lawsuits filed by families of the 157 people killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash. As a result of the agreement filed last week between Boeing and the families, lawyers for the victims will not seek punitive

November 16, 2021 • By Addis Insight

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Amnesty International reports on TPLF attack on Nifas Mewcha in Amhara region

The TPLF took control of Nifas Mewcha, in Amhara’s Gaint District, for nine days between 12 and 21 August 2021, as part of an ongoing offensive into parts of the Amhara and Afar regions. Regional government officials told Amnesty International that more than 70 women reported to authorities that they were raped in Nifas Mewcha

November 10, 2021 • By Addis Insight

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Special Envoy to Horn of Africa Feltman talks on conflict in Ethiopia

We urge the government of Ethiopia, the TPLF, and the other belligerents to give peace a chance; to choose a different path and engage in dialogue without preconditions.

November 10, 2021 • By Addis Insight

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Russia denotes on preserving peace in the conflict happening in Ethiopia

Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Anna Evstigneeva, at UNSC briefing on peace and security in Africa, said that her country is committed to reserving unity and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. “We have listened carefully to the statements on the latest developments of the situation in Northern Ethiopia delivered by Olusegun Obasanjo, the

November 9, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Africa News

African Union held an emergency meeting on the current conflict in Ethiopia

The AU Security Council had been briefed by the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) on the current situation in Ethiopia. The Union held an emergency closed-door online meeting. Ambassador Bankole Adiwoye, Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Affairs of the Union, Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Egypt’s Permanent Representative

November 9, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Business

The Backlashes of AGOA Sanction: how will it affect the emerging industry sector?

Netsanet Sidamu has been working in the Hawassa Industrial Park for five years; having failed the national exam, her chance to secure future survival chances was hanging by a thread. She came from a remote rural area in Sidama Zone with a family to support. These stories of many underprivileged girls broadly dive into the

October 15, 2021 • By Emrakel sileshi