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Death toll continues to rise after devastating landslide in Ethiopia

Local residents were desperately searching for survivors on Wednesday after a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia killed more than 200 people, the deadliest such disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation.

Radio France Internationale

Search Goes On After Ethiopia Landslides Kill 229

Rescuers aided by drones were continuing a desperate search on Wednesday for possible survivors of devastating landslides in an isolated area of southern Ethiopia that have claimed the lives of at least 229 people.

International Business Times

Hundreds killed in Ethiopia's deadliest recorded landslide

The desperate search for survivors of a landslide in southern Ethiopia continued on Tuesday. At least 229 people have been killed, swept away in its path on Monday. Also, in the wake of over six weeks of anti-government protests in Kenya, scores of people are arrested in neighbouring Uganda as…

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Death Toll Reaches 229 In Ethiopia Mudslides

Tragic mudslides in remote Ethiopia claim 229 lives, prompting emergency response and aid efforts in the affected region.

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Ethiopian PM meets Sudan army chief in push for ‘peace and security’

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed is the highest-level state visit to Sudan since the war began in April 2023.

Al Jazeera

Sudanese refugees hiding in Ethiopian forest to escape bandits and militias

Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia ask to be evacuated from the country after facing repeated attacks from local militias.

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Sudan army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan hosts Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed

In tonight's edition: Ethiopia's prime minister becomes the first foreign leader to visit Sudan since its descent into brutal conflict as trapped residents from the besieged city of Al Fashir speak of drones hunting down civilians in the streets. Also, neighbouring South Sudan is facing more economic turbulence as the…

Evening Standard

Boeing to admit fraud charge over 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people

The plea deal calls for Boeing to pay an additional £190million fine

The Guardian - UK

Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved a Darwinian theory – and what links her to the Beatles?

The Conversation

Lucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins

In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a gully. It proved to be the first of 47 bones of a single individual –…

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This dynamic preschool concept in Ethiopia extends learning beyond the classroom walls

This preschool in Ethiopia was designed by Studio MEMM to integrate learning with its surrounding context

The Conversation

Floating solar panels could provide much of Africa’s energy – new research

New research has found that several countries could meet all their energy needs from solar panel systems floating on lakes. Climate, water and energy environmental scientists R. Iestyn Woolway and Alona Armstrong analysed how much energy could be produced by floating solar panels on just 10% of the water surface…

The National (Scotland)

This is my wish for Ethiopia as a mother from Scotland

A FEW weeks ago in Tigray, Ethiopia, I sat with mothers who are terrified of the months ahead and worried about how they will feed their children ...

France 24

Zanzibar commemorates abolition of slavery for first time

Since a fragile 2022 peace deal ended Ethiopia's two-year war between Tigrayan fighters and federal forces, there are signs of recovery in the capital of Tigray. Also, Zanzibar commemorates the abolition of slavery. The island was a key stopping-off point for Arab slavers across East Africa for hundreds of years.

The Guardian - UK

Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds

Since 2021, the overall number of deaths, including of civilians, has risen to the highest level in three decades, Peace Research Institute Oslo reports

France 24

Complicated coalition talks ahead in South Africa after ANC loses majority

In this edition: South Africa prepares for complicated coalition talks after the ANC lost its historic majority in parliament over the weekend. Also, dozens of African heads of state head to Seoul for a summit aimed at deepening ties with South Korea. Plus we head to Ethiopia, where the Tigray…

Al Jazeera

Strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray war: Report

Report says Ethiopia and allies had ‘intent to destroy Tigrayans as an ethnic group’ and calls for prosecution at ICJ.

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