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OPride.com
March 27, 2018
They are being held at the city's Gotera police station. The crackdown capped a string of weekend arrests across Amhara and Oromia states. Nearly 20 scholars and journalists were rounded up on Saturday in Bahir Dar, the Amhara state capitol, as they met to oversee the formation of a new political party.
AllAfrica.com
March 22, 2018
Awramba is a community found in South Gonder Zone of Amhara State, Ethiopia, 68 km from Bahir Dar. The community was founded in 1972 and live within a place circumscribed by chain of mountains and hills. Nowadays, the place has become a tourist magnet. Many social anthropologists go there toÃâà...
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
March 20, 2018
For example, in Wolkait, an administrative district in Tigray State, ethnic Amharas wanted to be part of the Amhara State and send their children to school in Amharic. A two-decade effort to settle the matter through legal and political means was repeatedly frustrated. Those frustrations fed into widerÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
March 15, 2018
Ten passengers survived but suffered “serious and minor injuries” in the accident, which took place between the towns of Dessie and Mekane Selam in the Legambo district of the regional state of Amhara. The cause of the crash remains unknown. “You can guess it might be technical, but the police areÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 13, 2018
"A total of 38 people - 28 male and 10 female - were killed in the accident," state-affiliated Fana Broadcast Corporate said of the crash in the Legambo district of the regional state of Amhara, citing local authorities. INJURIES. Ten passengers survived but suffered serious and minor injuries in the accident,Ãâà...
The Straits Times
March 13, 2018
“A total of 38 people, (28 male, and 10 female) were killed in the accident,” state-affiliated Fana Broadcast Corporate said of the crash in the Legambo district of the regional state of Amhara, citing local authorities. Ten passengers survived but suffered “serious and minor injuries” in the accident, which tookÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 7, 2018
Ethiopia sees the untapped and lucrative agro-industry sector as one of the major engines to bring about structural transformation, generate hard currency and create employment opportunities to its rapidly growing youth population. As horticulture has become a lucrative sector, Ethiopian HorticultureÃâà...
OPride.com
February 25, 2018
This includes at Timket festivity in Woldia, Amhara state, and on Internally Displaced People in Hamaressa in eastern Oromia. Similarly, more than one million people have been uprooted from their home by the onslaught of the Somali Liyu police with tacit support from federal military and security officials.
AllAfrica.com
February 23, 2018
"It was first applied in various Woredas of the Amhara state. Now it has become popular in Tigray, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples, Oromia and Benishangul Gumuz states. I have planned to distribute it to the rest of the nation. In addition to this, I would make continuous upgrading activities," heÃâà...
OPride.com
February 22, 2018
Demeke's arrest on July 12, 2016, sparked widespread protests across the Amhara state. The outrage over the arrest of a citizen who fought for the disputed Welkait territorial issue saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in the following weeks and months including a massive rally twoÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 22, 2018
Though the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute has been playing a leading role in providing improved seeds, the cluster production system has also given the farmers the responsibility to produce improved seeds as witnessed Woredas like Denoba of Amhara State where farmers are organized inÃâà...
BBC News
February 21, 2018
But in some areas of Amhara state, people are defying the authorities by closing their businesses and halting transport services. The government reportedly responded by forcing residents to reopen their shops. Similar disobedience has occurred in Oromia where large crowds have gathered to welcomeÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 14, 2018
Mestewat Ahmed, in her 40s, is a resident of the Sefer Village of Wegidi Woreda in South Wollo Zone, Amhara State. She vividly remembers the previous long lines she used to fetch water. As she uttered to crew of journalists, she had spent most of her working hours in the places where water is availableÃâà...
africanews
February 1, 2018
Ethiopia's Amhara state arrests civilians after deadly clashes with army. Ethiopia's Amhara state arrests civilians after deadly clashes with army. Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban. 01/02 - 16:03Ãâà...
OPride.com
January 29, 2018
Kobo, a small town some 560 kilometers north of the capital Addis Ababa, is located in Amhara State's North Wollo zone. It has an estimated population of 50,000 people. The protests in Kobo began on January 22. The immediate trigger was the killings of nearly a dozen festival goers two days earlierÃâà...
africanews
January 21, 2018
Ethiopia security forces kill festival goers in Amhara state. Ethiopia security forces kill festival goers in Amhara state. Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban. 21/01 - 10:00Ãâà...
Prensa Latina
December 31, 1999
The Office of Culture and Tourism of the Regional State of Amhara, where the monarch's birthplace is located, in collaboration with three universities in the region, commemorates 150 years of his death with a remodeling of the enclosure and its surroundings, which includes shelters , accommodations andÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
There is fear that Qeerroo's street protest could be spread into other regions primarily in Amhara state, the second largest ethinic group in the country, to the extent of leading the horn African nation to a failed state. In fact, there is another anti government youth group in Amhara state where youngsters areÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
The immediate cause of the war was article 17 of the Wuchale treaty signed in 1889 in a place called Yisma Nigus, South Wollo of Amhara State. Regarding Ethiopia's foreign dealings, the article says Ethiopia must forge foreign relations through Italy while the Amharic one had been stated with phrase "canÃâà...
