Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) – 4 June 2019
Eskinder Nega and Takele Uma continue debate over demolishing homes in Addis Ababa
Dr Abeba Fekade with Abebe Belew on Addis Dimts Mereja TV
Toto Tours faces opposition in Ethiopia
Eskinder Nega press conference canceled again
Kefi Minerals booked a yearly loss while its Tulu Kapi gold project in Ethiopia stayed delayed
A young Ethiopian boy from Lalibela town with incredible musical talent
Emirates Airlines introduces environmentally-friendly blankets made from recycled plastic bottles
Equal Times asked what communities paid for ‘Ethiopian-style development’ around Lake Abijatta
The Financial Times said Abiy Ahmed turned to young technocrats for the reform drive
Tadias urged Ethiopians to confront child sexual abuse instead of only culture-war outrage
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured Ethiopian vegetable dishes built for sharing
A U.S. LGBTQ tour company said Ethiopian religious campaigners threatened its planned visit
The World Bank approved Ethiopia’s first renewable-energy investment guarantees
International Policy Digest mapped France’s growing strategic footprint in East Africa
An LSE analysis listed problems in Ethiopia’s proposed hate-speech and misinformation bill
Quartz said Ethiopia and Kenya were struggling under Chinese-built railway debt
FEWS NET published Ethiopia’s May 2019 staple food price bulletin
Ethiopia tendered for up to 100,000 tonnes of white cane sugar
Ezega reported the Ethiopian government was drafting a new media and hate-speech law
Eid in Ethiopia brought communal clean-ups and free bus rides to prayer grounds
A Vancouver panel noted Ethiopia’s first female president while early marriage rates stayed high
A bank report said electronic cash registers helped raise Ethiopia’s tax take
Researchers said 2.6-million-year-old stone tools in Ethiopia look like skilled Oldowan work
President Sahle-Work Zewde spoke at the 2019 Women Deliver conference in Vancouver
Wektawi Gudayoch special program with author and historian Lij Tedla Melaku
Addis Dimts on Mereja TV – 2 June 2019
Mereja TV Press Digest – 1 June 2019
Buna Soccer Club fans in Addis Ababa today
The Red Cross helped restore livelihoods for families displaced by Oromia–Somali conflict
Addis Ababa’s Gullele Botanical Garden opened as a green refuge for city dwellers
A New Yorker essay, “Poorly Mapped,” returned to Addis Ababa through family and memory
Al Jazeera reported Ethiopians speaking up against sexual violence and domestic abuse
Altus won a three-year copper and gold exploration licence at Zager in Tigray
EPHI reported cholera cases in several parts of Ethiopia, including Addis Ababa
ESAT’s board talked restructuring while some staff feared a shutdown plot
Ethiopia prepared an integrated wheat drive to cut imports
Netanyahu said Israel must do more to integrate Ethiopian Jews and fight racism
Jacobin’s “New Scramble for Ethiopia” weighed Abiy’s opening against old developmental-state models
A legal scholar said there was no lawful way to make Assab part of Ethiopia
Abiy Ahmed honored Dr. Catherine Hamlin at the fistula hospital’s 60th anniversary
Rita Pankhurst, librarian and long-time friend of Ethiopia, died at 91
The Guardian said Westminster Abbey barred Ethiopian priests from their looted tabot
Displacing people for their own benefit? – Ermias Legesse
Addis Ababa teachers complain about discrimination
Ethiopia awarded 12 small-scale solar projects to Chinese and Spanish firms
Wektawi Gudayoch on Mereja TV – 31 May 2019
Ethiopian national anthem singing competition
IOM said about 250 Ethiopian migrants detained in Yemen would fly home
Ethiopia prepared to launch an Amharic-named music phone app
An AllAfrica essay said Ethiopian women’s and girls’ rights still hung in the balance
Gunmen attacked Kefi Minerals’ gold exploration site in West Wellega
The Reporter said INSA was struggling through turbulent political reform
Chinese shoemaker Huajian took over management of Jimma Industry Park
FEWS NET warned food insecurity was intensifying after a poor Gu/Belg season
Teachers demonstrated in Amhara Region over pay, conditions, and killings
MSF said mobile clinics in Somali Region’s Doolo zone were seeing rising patient numbers
An Addis Standard analysis said real press freedom needed commercial media reform