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Six people were electrocuted to death while trying to put out fire in Ethiopia’s East Gojjam zone of Amhara regional State, police said on Tuesday.
As the Russian invasion rages in Ukraine, many people, including Africans, continue to flock to the borders in a desperate attempt to leave the war-ravaged country, with the African Union deploring their mistreatment.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Saturday launched the first-ever African Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (ARCAI) in Brazzaville, Congo.
The security situation in northern Ethiopia remains fragile and unpredictable, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Friday in a statement.
The international community still awaits Africa’s unequivocal reaction more than 24 hours after Russian ground and air forces poured into neighbouring Ukraine in an invasion that has taken the world by surprise.
The United Nations humanitarian agency on Thursday launched an early allocation of $25 million from the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) to provide immediate assistance to communities’ hard-hit by the drought emergency in priority locations.
Vaccination rates against COVID- 19 pandemic in Africa remain the lowest in the world as the continent is “racing towards” the target of vaccinating 70 percent of its population, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that his government is readying to open up the country’s banking sector so that foreign banks can set up operations and compete with the 18 local banks currently operating in the country.
A bomb blast targeting peacekeeping troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Wednesday killed an Ethiopian soldier and wounded two others.
The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Ethiopia has surpassed the 20-million mark with more than 1.5 million shots given on Tuesday.