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Rwanda starts Covid vaccination for health workers

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #Africa, #COVID-19 vaccine, #Rwanda

Rwanda has started immunising its healthcare workers against Covid-19, the health ministry said on Sunday.

Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: First deaths since 2016

February 14, 2021February 15, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #Ebola, #Guinea, #World Health Organisation

Guinea has officially declared that it is dealing with an Ebola epidemic after the deaths of at least three people

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Ethiopia Welcomes Faki’s Re-election as head of AU Commission

February 8, 2021February 9, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #African Union, #Chad, #Monique Nsanzabaganwa, #Moussa Faki Mahamat, #PM Abiy Ahmed, #Prof Hirut Woldemariam, #Rwanda

ADDIS ABEBA – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has congratulated Moussa Faki Mahamat’s re-election as chairperson of African Union Commission.

Ethiopian Begins Transporting COVID-19 Vaccine to Africa

February 7, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #Africa, #Coronavirus, #COVID-19, #COVID-19 vaccine, #Ethiopia, #Ethiopian Airlines

ADDIS ABEBA – Ethiopian Airlines has transported the first COVID-19 vaccine shipment from Beijing to N’Djamena via Addis Ababa. Ethiopian

DRC President Assumes AU Chairperson For 2021

February 7, 2021February 11, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #African Union, #AU Chairperson, #DR Congo, #President Cyril Ramaphosa, #President Felix Tshisekedi, #South Africa

ADDIS ABABA – The Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) have elected Felix Tshisekedi, president of

U.S.’s New President ‘Comitted’ to Rebuild Partnership with African Union

February 5, 2021February 11, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #African Union, #President Joe Biden, #United States

ADDIS ABABA – The new President of the United States Joe Biden said his administration will stand ready to be

Dropout Clears Path for First African Head of WTO

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, #Nigeria, #World Trade Organisation

ADDIS ABEBA – Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to become World Trade Organization or WTO’s first woman and first African

Govt Backs Prof Hirut for African Union Commissioner Job

February 4, 2021February 11, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #African Union Commission, #Ethiopia, #Prof Hirut Woldemariam

ADDIS ABABA – Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen has called the government and other pertinent bodies to come out in support

South Africa rhino poaching fell amid lockdowns

February 2, 2021February 11, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #Africa, #COVID-19 lockdown, #Poching, #South Africa

ADDIS ABABA – The South African government says there has been a one-third fall in the number of rhinos killed

US Military Pulls Last Troops Out of Somalia

January 19, 2021 Ethiopian Monitor #africom, #al-Shabaab, #Djibouti, #East Africa, #Kenya, #Somalia, #United States

launches two airstrike in Somalia shortly days after troop pullout