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The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months, all thirty days long, and five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month. [2] [3] The Ethiopian months begin on the same days as those of the Coptic calendar, but their names are in Geʽez. A sixth epagomenal day is added every four years, without exception, on 29 August of the Julian ...
A six-month state of emergency was declared on 4 August 2023 by the Ethiopian government in response to severe conflict and instabilities in Amhara Region after the Amhara militia Fano and the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) clashed in several locations in the region on 1 August. [1]
The Majang have a long history in the Gambela region, where they have lived as hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers for centuries. But currently, their way of life is dramatically changed to sedentary villages, they grow coffee, fruits, spices, maize, durra, root crops and they are also engaged in beekeeping.
Ethiopia’s government is under growing pressure to allow the world to see firsthand what has occurred in its embattled Tigray region as its Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister rejects ...
In 2017, when Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was appointed the World Health Organization's director general with an overwhelming two-thirds majority vote, Ethiopia was ecstatic. One of their own, and ...
The World Bank has long made Ethiopia a top priority, funneling loans to its government to help the East African nation of some 90 million people move past its legacy of poverty and famine. In 2005, the bank cut off funding for Ethiopia after the country’s authoritarian leaders massacred scores of people and arrested some 20,000 political ...
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament is set to lift a six-month state of emergency two months early, after the cabinet approved a draft law that said calm has been ...
Ethiopia has a federal political arrangement structured along ethno-linguistic lines. The Oromia Region is the largest and most populous state in the country [ 9 ] and primarily consists of those of the Oromo ethnic group , the largest ethnic group in the country.