AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

23 april 2021

• UN Security Council Breaks Silence, Calls for More Aid Access to Tigray
  [VOA] As the conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region enters its sixth month, the U.N. Security Council broke its silence Thursday to call for scaled-up humanitarian access and "a restoration of normalcy."
• Many Feared Dead in Renewed Violence in Central Gonder
  [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A renewed violence invoicing regional security forces and the Kimant community in central Gonder, in Amhara regional states, left several people dead and displaced as well as properties damaged.
• Nile Dam Negotiations - Why the Impasse?
  [Cameroon Tribune] For more than five years now Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been seeking ways of putting in place an acceptable strategy on the filing and management of the dam.
• 'They Don't Need the UN, U.S. or EU to Get a Solution'
  [Cameroon Tribune] Professor Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, Political Scientist and Lecturer at IRIC, Yaounde 11 University.
• Museveni's Urgent Role On Ethiopian Dam
  [Independent (Kampala)] Comment -- Faced with a current water scarcity and a Republic of Ethiopia determined to go ahead with its second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this July, Sudan and Egypt have lately intensified cooperation with a number of the Nile Riparian African countries in measures intended to support the development of water resources in these countries, seek alternative ways of maintaining or even better, increase water volumes flowing downstream from the White Nile River as well as influence regional s
• UNSC Calls for Scaled Up, Unfettered Humanitarian Access in Tigray
  [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- As part of a continuation of the UNSC meeting held on April 15 at a closed door meeting at the request of the US under Any other Business (AOB), members of the SC reached at a consensus and issued a statement calling for "a scaled up humanitarian response and unfettered humanitarian access to all people in need, including in the context of the food security situation." in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray regional state.
• ICL Ethiopia Launches Mass Covid-19 Test Campaign in Tigray
  [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- International Clinical Laboratories (ICL) has launched free Covid-19 testing program for 50,000 people in Tigray. The Laboratory kicked off the massive campaign earlier this week in collaboration with Tigray Health Bureau and Mekele Hospital after securing a permission from Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH).