addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** Close to 28 mln People in #IGAD Region Faced Acute Food Insecurity before #COVID19 https://t.co/fUjVASE3fT This figure represents 20 percent of the total population facing food insecurity that required urgent action across the world. https://t.co/P7wwoXZG3D

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @UNHCREthiopia: In Tierkidi and Nguenyyiel camps in the Gambella Region, UNHCR, in collaboration with @UNICEFEthiopia and @OxfaminEthiopia is trucking an average of 540,000 litres of water per day to enhance hygiene practices in the area during the #Coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/3n0cWrfxEX

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @ZekuZelalem: Video was sent to me from Beirut, Lebanon today. Dozens of Ethiopian domestic workers have been camped outside the Ethiopian consulate after their employers refuse to pay & just abandoned them here. They eat, sleep, live outdoors. @Amnesty has released a statement on this today. https://t.co/Xve8Cb2yH2

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** #GMO debate is democratic test for liberalizing #Ethiopia https://t.co/kKBM6rvhzN "The restrictive laws in Ethiopia were developed to protect smallholder farmers from becoming indebted to and dependent on multinational corporations for seeds," Tehsome Hunduma

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** #Ethiopia: @MastercardFdn Creates MSE’s Resilience Facility To Support Businesses In Ethiopia https://t.co/48mu8OFMrw This emergency program will support micro & small-sized enterprises (MSEs) & start-ups in Ethiopia during the economic downturn caused by the #COVID19 pandemic... https://t.co/h85JFeMDTC

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @UNDPAccLabs: 🌱Ethiopian industrial parks are hit hard by #Covid_19 The Accelerator Lab in @UNDPEthiopia is using #foresight to explore the impact of a prolonged lockdown and is looking at how real-time #data collection could serve as an early warning system. #futures https://t.co/a0mkWcrz4t https://t.co/0ZddQPu9mU

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** Opinion: Does #Ethiopia really need democracy? Then it should draw resources from indigenous virtues https://t.co/a5Vc7xWjty "Ethiopia needs solutions for its political gridlock; but we need to look for solutions from within as well as from abroad," @girma_mohammed

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @GirumTweets: ኢትዮጵያ ከመድብለ ፓርቲ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ስርዓት ያነሰ አስተዳደር ከእንግዲህ ማስተናገድ አትችልም። ይሄንን አምኖ መቀበል መላላጥን ይቀንሳል። There’s no chance to repeat “The Winner Takes It All” game. Never! #Ethiopia -brilliant article by @girma_mohammed 🙏 https://t.co/yKxl1Sdfsx

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @girma_mohammed: My latest with @addisstandard : Does #Ethiopia really need democracy? @BelachewM @sitinanu @Mastishtt @GirumTweets @TomGardner18 @MTBorago @yohanethio @Abele_a @getachew_temare @SolomonADersso @BerihunAdugna https://t.co/oE4rYVGV2S

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** #Ethiopia: A renowned geneticist and agronomist cautions against the adoption of GMO crops https://t.co/qb6dD1ciUm “If we partner with profit-generating multinational corporations, it would have enormous implications for our food supply...'' Dr. Melaku Worede, a plant geneticist https://t.co/9a15K7zF7V

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** News Alert: #COVID19Ethiopia latest: A 30 yo Ethiopian man died at Ekka Kotebe hospital. He had prior chronic illness. **Today 🇪🇹 recorded the highest number of infection/24 hrs as 150 people test +ve out of 5,141 lab tests. ***At 16, highest # of patients in severe condition https://t.co/gJcCRQAPQ6

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @HornDiplomat: BREAKING :#Somaliland records 8 new #COVIDー19 cases in the last 24 hours , bringing the total confirmed cases to 384. Somaliland has conducted a total of 1521 COVID-19 tests so far with 22 deaths and 57 recoveries. https://t.co/DRoCJUVca2

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @Aya_Majzoub: As dozens of Ethiopian women camp outside their consulate in #Beirut after employers abandoned them, @hrw calls on #Lebanon to establish a justice mechanism through which hastily repatriated workers can seek redress for human rights & labor violations. https://t.co/GUbrHjxTXc https://t.co/wQHrq8djox

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** #Ethiopia: #Lebanon provides shelter to 35 homeless Ethiopian #migrants https://t.co/R0N9YYfzYB "We provided this shelter to get them off the street and we are now in touch with international agencies and the Ethiopian consulate to look for a long-term solution," Hussein Zalghout https://t.co/glerJJOjnx

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** #Ethiopia: #SouthSudan Refutes Information Circulated As If It Gave Land To #Egypt For Military Base https://t.co/Mez001vYri ''No any agreement has been reached whatsoever to allocate a piece of land for Egyptian Military Base in the territory of the Republic of South Sudan.”, https://t.co/S72zeByqV3

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @AlexInAir: Breaking: President Trump is set to ban all Chinese airlines from flying to the United States, effective mid-June. https://t.co/9lVCJnbLNz

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** Viewpoint: Race & race matters:A personal reflection https://t.co/x5PuMeIDmJ As a once "raced & gendered person in #America"& in light of what transpired after the killing of #GeorgeFloyd, in this succinct viewpoint, Elizabeth W. Giorgis brings the conversation home to #Ethiopia!

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** "Despite being categorized as black in the American racial hierarchy, my #Ethiopian friends considered a standard of blackness that aimed to transcend #African American blackness, curiously misleading their own exploitation in the American racial category"https://t.co/x5PuMeIDmJ

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @Mastishtt: The two critical pieces out on @addisstandard today (on indigenizing our political system from @girma_mohammed and on race and capitalism from Elizabeth W. Giorgis) plus @YirgaGelaw 's latest piece on white supremacy give me hope for the future. 🙏 #Ethiopia READ AND DISCUSS :) https://t.co/qnl0k4aziK

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** RT @MahletKS: #COVID19Ethiopia Addis Abeba updates 🟢155 recovered (Recovery rate 92%) 🔴1042 active cases Sub-city w most cases 🔴Addis Ketema Today (T):355 (+50) Yesterday (Y) :305 (+47) Week ago (5/28):138(+59) 🔴Lideta T: 180(+4) Y: 176(+8) 5/28: 133(+11) ➡️https://t.co/xzQCLxIE1G https://t.co/Baim07iA2R

addisstandard Just tweeted ********************************************** #Ethiopia: Floods impact thousands of people https://t.co/E8HOwOTj3C flooding has so far affected more than 470,000 people, of whom more than 300,000 people are displaced. The #Somali region was severely hit, with nearly 80 % of the flood-affected & displaced people are located. https://t.co/zbnb55tCht