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Mai Kadra massacre. The Mai Kadra massacre was a massacre and ethnic cleansing carried out during the Tigray War on 9–10 November 2020 in the town of Mai Kadra in Welkait (a disputed area between the Amhara and Tigray Regions) in northwestern Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. [11] Responsibility was attributed to a pro-TPLF youth group and ...
Caleb Meakins (Amharic: ካሌብ ሜኪንስ; 1989 – 28 February 2020) was an Ethiopian-born British entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and YouTube personality. Early life and career. Caleb was a born in 1989 to an Ethiopian mother, Ruth and British father Andy in Ethiopia. He had two sisters named Lydia and Abigail.
Political corruption. There are several sectors in Ethiopia where businesses are particularly vulnerable to corruption. Land distribution and administration is a sector where corruption is institutionalized, and facilitation payments as well as bribes are often demanded from businesses when they deal with land-related issues. [1]
Until 2020 Amharic was the sole official language of Ethiopia. [18] [19] [3] [20] [21] The 2007 census reported that Amharic was spoken by 21.6 million native speakers in Ethiopia. [22] More recent sources state the number of first-language speakers in 2018 as nearly 32 million, with another 25 million second-language speakers in Ethiopia. [11]
The 2020–present Horn of Africa drought is an ongoing drought that hit the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The rainy season of 2022 was recorded to be the driest in over 40 years, [29] [30] with an estimated 43,000 in Somalia dying in 2022. [31] [32] As of 2023, the region is now in its 5th failed rainy season [33] and a 6th failed ...
Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak Amharic. Many followers of the Rastafari movement learn Amharic as a second language, as they consider it to be a sacred language. Amharic is the working language of the federal authorities of the Ethiopian government, and one of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
The Daily Dot in December 2015 listed Sam and Nia as the 3rd most influential YouTubers of 2015. Teen.com in May 2016 listed Sam as one of six YouTubers caught in major cheating scandals. Digital Spy in February 2017 listed Sam and Nia as number six of 7 of YouTube's most shocking scandals.
The Prosperity Party ( Amharic: ብልጽግና ፓርቲ, romanized : Bilits’igina Paritī; Oromo: Paartii Badhaadhiinaa) is a political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) by incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The merger into a ...