News

Journalist Tamrat Negera appeared in Oromia Gelan Court

Journalist Tamrat Negera is said to have appeared in Oromia Gelan court on December 17; 2021 Addis Ababa, Tamrat appeared in court without lawyer. Tamrat was handed over to Oromia police after being arrested by federal police. Police requested 7 more days to present its evidence. Background

December 17, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Ethiopian War

The UK released a statement regarding Ethiopia’s Tigray War

Simon Manley, UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, delivered the UK statement during the UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Ethiopia. The statement follows: We are here today to stand with the people of Ethiopia who have faced more than a year of conflict and witnessed atrocities on the most extraordinary scale.

December 17, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Entertainment & Arts

Art Contemplation in the Streets of Addis

“The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” James Baldwin The artist creates art that resembles the hidden

December 17, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Culture

Tex-Ethiopian Barbecue- Must Try Ethiopian Cuisine

The combination of this African spice and a thoroughly Texan dessert is just one small example of the joyous adventure of a meal that can be eaten at what is probably the world’s only Tex-Ethiopian smokehouse. Owners Patrick and Fasicka Hicks, from Waco and Addis Ababa, respectively, don’t know of another Ethiopian restaurant that has

December 17, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Africa News

Professor Senait Fisseha, received an award for Achievement in Global Health Leadership.

16 December 2021 | Addis Ababa – The first international Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021), hosted by the African Union (AU) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) concluded its main programme today following three days of sessions focused on the need to address long-standing health challenges on the continent,

December 16, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Sport

Congratulations to Tirunesh Dibaba and Sileshi Sihin

ETHIOPIA – Congratulations to Tirunesh Dibaba and her husband Sileshi Sihin for the birth of their third child, a girl named Mati. They already have two sons, Nathan born in March 2015 and Allon born in January 2020. Our best wishes to the whole family!

December 16, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Uncategorized

Ethiopia uses emergency law to ramp up arrests of journalists

Nairobi, December 16, 2021 – Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all journalists held in custody for their work and should refrain from using the country’s state of emergency law to imprison members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Ethiopian authorities have arrested at least 14 journalists since declaring a state of

December 16, 2021 • By Addis Insight

News

Rep. Bass Seeks Extension To Ethiopia’s AGOA Termination Deadline

December 15, 2021 Press Release WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the following statement: “On November 2nd, the Biden Administration announced its intent to suspend Ethiopia from AGOA by January 1, 2022.  Suspension of AGOA will reverse economic gains that have been hard won

December 16, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Ethiopian War

The Gashena Massacre Photo Diary by Abel Gashaw

Abel Gashaw On December 1, TPLF troops operating in Gashena deliberately massacred more than 60 civilians—mostly elderly, mothers and young children– in retaliation as they retreat from the town. As an independent photographer embedded in the army, I arrived in Gashena with the troops in midst of an active battle. We were received by residents

December 15, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Entrepreneurship

Sara Menker Among America’s Greatest Disruptors: Planet Protectors

AI and Big Data to Help Feed the World SARA MENKER — FOUNDER, CEO, GRO INTELLIGENCEBEST OF NEWSWEEK VIA EMAIL  By 2050, the United Nations says, we’re going to need 70 percent more food to feed the nine billion people living on Earth. Global climate change threatens to upend their lives—worsening storms, droughts, heat waves and

December 15, 2021 • By Addis Insight