AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

21 april 2019

• Women in Ethiopia Still Struggle Despite Leadership in Government
  [IPS] Addis Ababa -Following 2018 elections in Ethiopia, a record-breaking number of women now hold leadership positions in the country's government. But women still struggle to rise up the ranks in other sectors.
• 2019 Most Influential People List Features Six Africans
  [allAfrica] Cape Town -Time Magazine has published its annual list of the world's most influential people - and six Africans made it on to the list, according to Ugandan website Hire The Youth.
• Alarming Rates of Malnutrition Among Displaced People in Southern Ethiopia
  [MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for the welfare of tens of thousands of vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia, following an assessment that revealed alarming findings about their nutritional status, poor living conditions and limited availability of safe drinking water.
• 39 People Die in Measles Outbreak - Report
  [Addis Standard] Addis Standard has quoted a BBC Amharic story that says 39 people have died from measles.
• MSF Launches Intervention As Displacement Crisis Leads to High Malnutrition Rates
  [MSF] New York/Addis Ababa -Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a medical intervention in the Gedeo area of southern Ethiopia following a nutritional assessment in late March, which found malnutrition rates above emergency levels for children under five. The international medical humanitarian organization is calling on other humanitarian agencies to urgently scale up their support for the large number of internally displaced people living in the area.
• Ethiopia's Digital Economy: Boom, Bang 
  [Addis Standard] A flourishing digital economy is a new feature in the dynamics of the new Ethiopia. Slower as this explosion might be compared to the case in other countries, marked by competitive telecom market, its growth and disruptive impact in the traditional markets identified with hierarchy, clientelism and collusion is certainly radical.
• Security Forces Injure Arsi Univ. Medical Interns During Protest
  [Addis Standard] Several interns and last year medical students in Arsi University, Assela city, 175 km south east of Addis Abeba, were injured this morning when security forces attempted to forcibly disperse them while demonstrating, a medical student at the university told Addis Standard.