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AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

17 november 2019

• Press Freedom Under Siege Again in the New Ethiopia
  [Deutsche Welle] Ethiopian press freedom gained a much-needed push thanks to reforms by prime minister Abiy Ahmed. But already the push back is occurring.
• Icao's Endeavor in Ensuring Aviation Safety in Africa
  [Reporter] The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a UN specialized agency that regulates the global aviation industry. Ethiopia is one of the founding members of ICAO. Headquartered in Montreal Canada, ICAO provides capacity building programs for African civil aviation authorities. The organization is striving to ensure safe air transport and environmental protection regulations all over the world. Through its regional offices the organization is closely working with African civil aviation authoritie
• Launching Digital Agro-Climate Advisory Platform in Ethiopia
  [Reporter] There was a time when traditional ecological knowledge was enough. When ancestral wisdom guided communities to sense the moods of the rains, the temperaments of the winds, the hidden messages of the clouds. Through these interpretations of nature, farming communities could foretell times of planting, times of abundance and times of harvest.
• EPRDF's Eminent Merger: the Right Priority?
  [Addis Standard] EPRDF's merger, should it pan out, will mark a significant shift in Ethiopia's democratic experiment as it means, following the Derg's all-Ethiopian Workers Party, the second attempt in constituting a nationally inclusive political party by the government in power.
• In Ethiopia, a Growing Clamour for Ethnic Autonomy
  [The New Humanitarian] Hawassa -'It will be good to have independence - the constitution gives us the right.'
• Desert Locusts Put Crops At Risk
  [VOA] Ethiopian agriculture officials say they are taking steps to control a major locust infestation that could threaten some of the country's staple crops.
• Attorney General Says June 22 Amhara Region Senior Leaders, Army Chief Gen. Seare Assassinations Led By Bir. Gen Asaminew Tsige
  [Addis Standard] Berhanu Tsegaye, Ethiopia's Attorney General, said that the June 22 assassination of the senior leadership in Amhara regional state and army chief as well as a retired general's assassination in Addis Abeba are connected and were led by Bir. Gen. Asaminew Tsige, former security head of Amhara regional state.