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OPride.com
February 23, 2018
The long-running dispute is over the appropriation of the Welkait Tegede region into the state of Tigray in 1995. Many Amharas believe that the Welkait area, which was historically part of the former Begemider or Gonder province, is an ancestral Amhara territory. They view the incorporation into Tigray asÃÂ ...
Ahram Online
February 22, 2018
Zenawi belonged to the Tigray, who make up about six per cent of the populace and who control the EPRDF. Raslan adds that Tigrayans also control the key institutions of the state, which is one of the reasons for discontent among the Oromo (over 34 per cent of the population) and the Amhara (about 27ÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
February 20, 2018
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of an early humanitarian response and resilience building on humanitarian outcomes in the Tigray and Somali regions of Ethiopia, both in terms of cost savings, as well as the avoided losses that can result from a more proactive response. The studyÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 20, 2018
ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's northern Tigray regional state announced on Tuesday it will release 80 detainees charged with violence and hooliganism. Amanuel Assefa, Chief of Tigray Justice Bureau, said 33 of the detainees were charged with participation in deadly unrest in AdigratÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 16, 2018
Tigray State is the cultural, historic and religious center of Ethiopia. It is the origin of the ancient Axumite Kingdom which was flourished from first century BC-seventh century AD. Besides,Tigray has breathtaking landscape,beautiful mountains, monol- ithic obelisks, ancient graves and tombs, ancientÃÂ ...
Mareeg Media
February 15, 2018
The resignation of Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn comes after two years' political turmoil caused by mistrust between the ruling party of Tigray Peoples Liberation Front and Amhara. With the help of the sizeable Oromo nation, Amhara wants to defeat their traditional rival of Tigray, once forÃÂ ...
Ezega
February 12, 2018
The study has covered 14 woredas of Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and Southern regional states and engaged farmers, harvesters, merchants, consumers and researchers. The professor also pointed out that the impact of this loss is not only economical it will have a problem related to health caused by the lowÃÂ ...
nazret.com
February 4, 2018
Author's Note: I am postponing Part IV of my regularly scheduled commentary on truth and reconciliation in Ethiopia to respond to Seyoum Mesfin's call to arms to the people of Tigray. I find it exceedingly important to record a timely response to Mesfin's inflammatory, outrageous and alarming battle cryÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 1, 2018
Following the recent Ethiopian People's Democratic Front EPRDF executive and previously Tigray People's Liberation Front Central meetings, domestic and external political parties opposed the ruling party's offers through contrasting and sometimes conflicting analysis regarding the outcome of the muchÃÂ ...
Mining Review
January 29, 2018
Zolowo contains numerous alluvial gold mining camps and an Archaean greenstone belt that forms a prominent ridge for approximately 33 km across the licence. Feature image credit: Altus Strategies. Exploration at the 322km2 Tigray-Afar licence located in the Tigray province of northern Ethiopia.
New Business Ethiopia
January 22, 2018
The conflict began when opposition arises in Gondar (Amhara Region) against inclusion of Welkayit area into Tigray Region. It was also reported that the representatives from. While officials from Tigray region has claimed that the 1994 census has shown that 96% of the settlers in Welkait are TigreansÃÂ ...
nazret.com
January 16, 2018
The general unrest and dismay by the general public is an accumulation of years of frustration from other ethnic groups who claim they have been marginalized by the brutal Ethiopia's governing coalition apparatus (EPRDF)[1] which is dominated by the party from the small Tigray region (the TigreanÃÂ ...
The New Times
January 16, 2018
The university, whose construction is scheduled to start within the coming two months period, will be constructed in Ethiopia's Tigray regional state in the town of Adwa. The university is expected to be a center of excellence for black people, it was noted. The Ethiopian government also expects a globalÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 15, 2018
The university, whose construction is scheduled to start within the coming two months period, will be constructed in Ethiopia's Tigray regional state in the town of Adwa. The university is expected to be a center of excellence for black people, it was noted. The Ethiopian government also expects a globalÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
January 10, 2018
EPRDF is the brainchild of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a Marxist-Leninist movement that fought to liberate the Tigray ethnic group, which comprise six percent of Ethiopia's more than 100 million people. In the final days of Ethiopia's civil war, the TPLF orchestrated the creation of threeÃÂ ...
africanews
January 9, 2018
The government has announced a resettlement plan. Another area of concern according to the submissions was the ethnic-based killings that forced the closure of some universities in the Oromia, Amhara and Tigray regional states. The situation is said to have calmed down and most universities reopened.
Walta Information Center (blog)
January 5, 2018
Ezana Mining Development Company, a local company engaged in mining in Tigary region opened Ethiopia's second modern gold factory at a cost of 700mln birr. Legedenbi gold mining factory of MIDROC Ethiopia is the first modern gold factory. The company is designed to have a capacity of producingÃÂ ...
Ezega
January 3, 2018
Meli-Gold-Plant-Tigray-Ethiopia January 2, 2018 - Meli gold plant in Ethiopia's Tigray regional state began regular production, reports FBC. The factory is expected to earn Ethiopia more than 40 million US dollars in this fiscal year (2017/18). The plant, which is under the patronage of Ezana Mining Development Company,ÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
January 2, 2018
Among the beneficiary cities, six are located in Oromia, four in Amhara, two in Tigray and Somali, one each in Afar, Benishangul, Harari and Gambella and three in Southern Nations Nationalities & People's regional states. The city administrations of Dire Dawa and Addis Abeba are also among theÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
January 2, 2018
According to Ministry of Health, five to six million mothers and children living in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and SNNP states have become beneficiaries of ENGINE as they have successfully prevented chronic children malnutrition during the first 1,000 days- from the start of a woman's pregnancy to the child'sÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 22, 2017
After five hours on the road descending from Mek'ele, the capital city of the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia, perched at an altitude of 2000 metres, our convoy of five jeeps, loaded with bikes and a week's supply of food and water, arrived at Hamed Ela, located 150 metres below sea level. The groupÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 22, 2017
Senior officials of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) indicated that rule of law and constitutional supremacy should be respected to ensure accountability, prosperity, peace and stability in the country. Speaking to local media, TPLF chairperson Dr. Debretsion Gebremichael said TPLF would strive toÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 18, 2017
In what appears to be reprisals, two students from Tigray were reportedly killed at Welega University, located in the Oromia region. The number of incidents and casualties, as well as the number of people involved and the ethnic tone of the conflict over the past few days, has raised the prospect of evenÃÂ ...
Coastweek
December 16, 2017
Teku Meteko, deputy administrator and security head of western Tigray zone, said the 156 individuals were based in Ethiopia's neighboring nation Eritrea. According to Meteko, more than 160 members of various terror groups had returned to Ethiopia in the last Ethiopian fiscal year, the report added.
Xinhua
December 14, 2017
Teku Meteko, deputy administrator and security head of western Tigray zone, said the 156 individuals were based in Ethiopia's neighboring nation Eritrea. According to Meteko, more than 160 members of various terror groups had returned to Ethiopia in the last Ethiopian fiscal year, the report added.
Ezega
December 14, 2017
Debretsion-President-Tigray December 14, 2017 - The recently elected chair of the TPLF, Dr. Debretsion Gebremichael, may soon become President of Togray, according to the Ethiopian Reporter. It is to be recalled that the TPLF recently assigned members of its executive committee to focus in different areas.
AllAfrica.com
December 12, 2017
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) grants close to 47 million dollars to undertake infrastructural development projects in Tigray and Amhara regional states. Admasu Nebebe, state minister for Finance & Economic Cooperation and Takeshi Matsuyama, a senior representative of JICA inÃÂ ...
EU News
December 8, 2017
Ethiopia also hosts refugees in 25 camps located in Tigray, Afar, Somali, Gambella, and Benishangul Gumuz regions. It has been facing an increasingly growing influx of refugees mainly from South Sudan and Somalia, but also from Sudan and Eritrea. Meanwhile, escalating tensions and violent incidentsÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 7, 2017
In his final comment on the sound management of the park, Zekarias further stated that the park administrations is closely working with the Tigray State, Industrial Park Development Corporation and Ethiopian investment commission to address possible challenges at early stages. For instance, ZekariasÃÂ ...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
A spate of violence has also ensued between the Oromos and the ethnic Somalis recently, showcasing the governance troubles facing the Tigray-led ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party. In early December, when a crackdown on protests in villages in Oromia led toÃÂ ...
Walta Information Center (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) announced that it has taken measure against its six central committee members following the meeting held in Mekelle city, capital of Tigray region. In the three days-long meeting, the committee reviewed its deep reform moves and passed decisions includingÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
LOCATION AND CAUSE OF DISPLACEMENT: 20,752 displaced individuals comprising 7,621 households in 61 displacement sites were identified in Tigray region. These figures represent an increase of 1,317 in the total individuals (4%), households (4.8%) and sites (3%) since round 7ÃÂ ...
The Africa Report
December 31, 1999
The stern face of Meles Zenawi bears down from a giant billboard on a hillside overlooking Mekelle, the lofty cobble-stoned capital of Tigray Province in northern Ethiopia. Meles, a former prime minister who died in 2012, is a giant in his home region, and his portrait – emblazoned on buildings, buses andÃÂ ...
CNBCAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
... legends, art, and faith of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, it covers the churches and monasteries of Aksum and Tigray, Lalibela and Lasta, Gondar and Lake Tana, describing in rich and vibrant detail the architecture, colorful decorations, and important Orthodox religious festivals of Ethiopia.
Walta Information Center (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Tigray Regional State Council in its 5th extraordinary meeting has elected Debretsion Gebremicheal (PhD) as Deputy Chief Administrator of the region. Dr Debretsion was appointed as deputy because he is not eligible to become chief administrator as he is not a member of the regional state's council.
The Wire
December 31, 1999
By reaching out to the Amhara National Democratic Movement, the Oromo People's Democratic Organisation seems determined to displace the powerful Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front from dominating the coalition's decision making process. It is also hoping to force the ruling coalition to make reforms.
News24
December 31, 1999
By reaching out to the Amhara National Democratic Movement, the Oromo People's Democratic Organisation seems determined to displace the powerful Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front from dominating the coalition's decision making process. It is also hoping to force the ruling coalition to make reforms.
Forests News, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)
December 31, 1999
The team focused on nine successful areas in the country's northernmost regional state, Tigray, where the government began promoting exclosures as early as the mid-1980s. “Much of the land in Tigray has been degraded. So communities had two choices: move to a more fertile area, or restore their land.
EU News
December 8, 2017
Ethiopia also hosts refugees in 25 camps located in Tigray, Afar, Somali, Gambella, and Benishangul Gumuz regions. It has been facing an increasingly growing influx of refugees mainly from South Sudan and Somalia, but also from Sudan and Eritrea. Meanwhile, escalating tensions and violent incidentsÃÂ ...
Ladue News
December 8, 2017
“For example, in 2017, we provided menstrual-hygiene education in 100 schools, reaching more than 40,000 boys and girls in the Tigray region. That's more students than we reached in the previous two years combined.” Looking ahead, she notes that Dignity Period plans to expand into the northeastern ...
AllAfrica.com
December 7, 2017
In his final comment on the sound management of the park, Zekarias further stated that the park administrations is closely working with the Tigray State, Industrial Park Development Corporation and Ethiopian investment commission to address possible challenges at early stages. For instance, Zekarias ...
AllAfrica.com
December 7, 2017
As a result, a great deal of achievement was made by identifying model farmers and expanding their knowledge to others in every zone and woreda of Tigray. "Most of all, new developmental approaches are introduced. For instance, farmers research groups, now part of the extension system, are results of ...
OPride.com
November 30, 2017
As the dominoes started to fall earlier this week, the TPLF Central Committee huddled in Mekele, the Tigray state's capital, demoted its chairman and the sitting president of Tigray State, Abay Woldu; suspended Azeb Mesfin, widow of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi; downgraded one and reprimanded ...
Coastweek
November 24, 2017
The first phase of the park, located in the Tigray regional state, will cover some 258 hectares of land and be completed within a year, said ...
AllAfrica.com
November 24, 2017
"When we launch the first project in Tigray in 2009 in collaboration with Oxfam America, there were only 200 farmers who benefited from the ...
Ezega
November 14, 2017
Atsbit-road-Tigray-Ethiopia November 14, 2017 - Twenty-one people were killed and seven others injured when an overloaded minibus overturned in Ethiopia's ...
ReliefWeb
November 10, 2017
The threat of fall armyworm still lingers in East Amhara, SNNPR and Southern Tigray (neighbouring areas of Afar region) which may negatively ...
AllAfrica.com
November 8, 2017
New arrivals are allocated to one of four refugee camps in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The Hitsats camp is the newest and largest, sheltering ...
Geeska Afrika
November 6, 2017
Sheik Al-Amoudi appeared on the seen in 1991 when Eritrea achieved independence and when Eritrea handed Tigray Peoples Liberation ...
Abbay Media
October 26, 2017
Important government institutions in Addis Ababa are being guarded by soldiers who came from Tigray Region. Roads that lead to South ...
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