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The Black Lions were an anti-fascist resistance movement [1] formed to fight against Fascist Italy during the occupation of the Ethiopian Empire in World War II. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As Bahru Zewde notes, in spite of its "marginal impact on the Resistance" the Black Lions made "eloquent attempts to give the struggle coherent ideological and political ...
The Black Lions took part in the movement. [5] In 1937/1938, there were an estimated 25,000 active Patriots in Ethiopia. The average band of resistance fighters was estimated in 1938 to have included 400 to 500 members, depending on the agricultural season. [1] The Arbegnoch or Patriots were called Shifta by the Italians.
A government-run news agency, now called the Ethiopian News Agency, ran from 1942 to 1947, and then was relaunched in 1954. Early twenty-first century Ethiopian newspapers can be broadly divided into two categories, Ethiopia based and diaspora based, with the majority of the diaspora-based ones being digital-only newspapers.
Reidulf K. Molvaer, —Black Lions: The Creative Lives of Modern Ethiopia's Literary Giants and Pioneers, (c. 1997) Girma's legacy has received overwhelming positive feedback in Ethiopia and has spread across the diaspora , including in places such as Minneapolis, which has a large population of Ethiopian origin. [ 41 ]
On June 4, 2024, the United States-based New Lines Institute released a comprehensive 120-page report concluding that there is strong evidence of genocidal acts committed by Ethiopian forces and their allies during the Tigray war. [10] The report calls for Ethiopia to be prosecuted at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Addis Ababa Zoo keeps apes, lesser kudus, ducks, eagles and tortoises. [2]Several lions kept in the zoo were found to be genetically similar to wild Central African lions from Cameroon and Chad, but different to captive lions are Sana'a Zoo in Yemen, which were thought to be of Ethiopian origin, and wild lion samples from Ngorongoro and Serengeti National Parks in East Africa, and those of ...
Ye Ethiopia Lijoch TV (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ልጆች ቲቪ) is an Ethiopian children's channel headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Owned by Ethiopia Lijoch P.L.C., it was launched in April 2019. The channel broadcasts programming mainly in Amharic with some programming in English.
On July 4, 2022, alleged Oromo Liberation Army militants killed hundreds of civilians in Kelam Welega Zone, Oromia in Ethiopia. [5] The massacre sparked condemnation from Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, and was the second mass killing in Oromia region after the Gimbi massacre just a week prior. [6] Qelem is also known as Kellem.