The New//Africa

14/03/2022

YESTERDAY in the streets of Addis Ababa! More than 10.000 women & girls celebrate the International Women Day with the GREAT ETHIOPIAN RUN 5KM WOMEN RACE.

More than 10.000 times women empowerment. Great joy to watch this video! Thanks to the organizers DAGI AMARE and her team for this peaceful and joyful demonstration for a peaceful togetherness!

Of course there were a lot of men cheering in the streetS, and of course, THE RUNNER of Ethiopia, our friend Haile Gebreselassie was part of the celebration. As was the female Ethiopian President Office of the President, Ethiopia SAHLE-WORK ZEWDE who kicked off this year's “Priority for Women” race.

More about the organization of the ETHIOPIAN RUNs here:
>>> https://ethiopianrun.org/en

Great sponsors too! Safaricom Ethiopia UNICEF Ethiopia Sofi Malt ENAT BANK S.C. Hyatt Regency Addis Arki Water

08/03/2022

Here your find an interesting collection of stories about WOMEN from all over the world,

>>> who see, grab and grant CHANCES,
>>> who manage CHALLENGES,
>>> who drive CHANGES forward.

A selection of our coverage about the lives of women

23/12/2021

The Best Airlines in Africa 2021
1, Ethiopian Airlines
2, South African Airways
3, Kenya Airways
4, Royal Air Maroc
5, Air Mauritius
6, Air Seychelles
7, RwandAir
8, FlySafair
9, Egyptair
10, Fastjet

NB: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 selected for series 4th year

Source : Worldairlineawards.com

21/12/2021

I would like to thank the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) for the award in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of me winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
AWDF have proven what true feminist solidarity is.
Thank You for accompanying throughout the years on this journey of African Feminist Leadership.

25/11/2021

To all our followers in and from Ethiopia who are interested in my opinion about the situation in my second homeland, here is the interview Alev Doğan, the chief-reporter of The Pioneer has done with me last week for her podcast series The 8th day.
Best regards, Beate Wedekind, founder and editor-in-chief of TheNewAfrica // ChancesChallengesChances, a journal about the aspiring entrepreneurial thinking generation of young women and men.

Here is the original podcast (it's in German) with an Amharic voice over by DW-editor Azeb Tadesse-Hahn, broadcast tonight on DW / Deutsche Welle Amharic

ለርስዎ የምናቀርበውን አገልግሎታችንን ለማሻሻል በማሰብ ኩኪዎችን እንጠቀማለን። ስለዚሁ ጉዳይ ተጨማሪ መረጃዎችን ከሰነድ አጠባበቅ መግለጫችን ማግኘት ይችላሉ።

25/11/2021

Here is - in addition to the audio - also a transcript of my podcast in Amharic, edited by Azeb Tadesse-Hahn, editor at Deutsche Welle Amharic, published on the website of DW.

>>>> To all our followers in and from Ethiopia who are interested in my opinion about the situation in my second homeland, here is the interview Alev Doğan, the chief-reporter of The Pioneer has done with me last week for her podcast series The 8th day.
Best regards, Beate Wedekind, founder and editor-in-chief of TheNewAfrica // ChancesChallengesChances, a journal about the aspiring entrepreneurial thinking generation of young women and men.

በኢትዮጵያ ከፈጠራ ኢንዱስትሪዉ ከተውጣጡ ወጣት ስራ ፈጣሪዎች ጋር በአማካሪነት እየሰራሁ ነው። በፍርሃት እኔ ስራዬን ባቆም፤ ወጣቶቹን ያለምንም ምክንያት በማያቁት ነገር መተዉ ይሆና...

19/11/2021

State Minister Redwan Hussien exchanges a phone call with UK Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford
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State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, H.E. Ambassador Redwan Hussien, spoke over the phone with H.E. Vicky Ford (MP), Minister for Africa, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs of the UK, about the current situation in northern Ethiopia.

The Minister for Africa urged for a political solution to the conflict with the TPLF forces, both sides to take confidence-building measures and stop inflammatory social media comments.

The Minister said the TPLF had to stop advancing the conflict and the Government should create an enabling environment for humanitarian assistance to reach the people of Tigray, Amhara, and Afar.

The Minister also welcomed the efforts of the African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa, the former President of Nigeria, H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, and reiterated the support of
the UK to this peace effort.

Ambassador Redwan, on his part, explained that several peace efforts made by the Government did not get through due to the belligerent attitude of TPLF.

He also explained that due to the TPLF's expansion of the conflict into the Amhara and Afar regions, the internally displaced people have dramatically increased.

Regarding humanitarian access, he reiterated the Government’s continued commitment citing the engagements with Humanitarian Organizations to resume humanitarian flights to Mekelle, Kombolcha, and Semera.

Appropriate institutions are also facilitating road transportation through Abala, he added. The state minister stressed that the TPLF should return the more than 860 Aid trucks it has repurposed to military use.

10/11/2021

Too much manipulative misinformation channeled by the TPLF and so much biased reporting from the Western media going on about the conflict in Ethiopia. Here is an interesting talk of Becky Anderson of CNN with Billene Seyoum, the speaker of the Ethiopian Government. Please listen to the end:
>>> https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/11/09/billene-seyoum-ethiopia-abiy-ctw-intl.cnnToo

Please also listen to Becky Anderson same-day-talk to Getachew Reda, the spokesman of the TPLF, who amongst other threatening statements says that Primeminister Dr. Abiy Ahmed "has to struggle for his life" and "we have to break the ceasefire"
>>> https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/11/09/reda-getachew-tplf-ethiopia-ctw-intl.cnn

CNN's Becky Anderson speaks with Billene Seyoum, the press secretary of Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, about the ongoing conflict between the country's central government and armed groups of rebel fighters allied against it, including the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

05/11/2021

Gute Nachrichten! Leider nur auf Deutsch ...

Neue Studien zeigen, dass sich in Teilen Afrikas die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung bereits mit dem Coronavirus infiziert hat. Trotz weniger Impfungen blieb die große Katastrophe aus – zumindest bislang.