World Health Organization alerts world society on COVID-19 through Facebook

 World Health Organization Health Alert brings COVID-19 facts to billions via WhatsApp and Facebook, according to Apo group. This easy-to-use messaging service has the potential to reach 2 billion people and enables... Read more »

Solve IT 2020 innovation competition to launch tomorrow

ADDIS ABABA – Solve IT 2020 Innovation Competition will be launched tomorrow March 11, 2020. In a press release The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa sent to The Ethiopian Herald, it said... Read more »

South Sudan ethnic clashes flare up latest threat to peace agreement

South Sudan thought it was attaining peace last week but it may now have to deal with erupting ethnic clashes in some parts of the country. Even before the revitalised transitional government... Read more »

Sudan PM survives assassination attempt in Khartoum

Sudan’s Prime Minister survived an assassination attempt Monday after an explosion went off near his convoy in the capital of Khartoum. Abdalla Hamdok, a longtime economist, tweeted he was “safe and in... Read more »

Uganda drains excess dam water into the Nile

The Kiira and Nalubaale hydro stations in Jinja are spilling out more water into the River Nile, at a time when Egypt is battling with Ethiopia over the river’s water flow. The... Read more »

Aliko Dangote foundation funds for Nigeria curbing coronavirus

The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) pledged a whooping sum of N200million to support current effort of the Nigerian government towards curbing the spread of Corona Virus or Covid-19 in the country. Aliko... Read more »

UK protects vulnerable children from sexual predators

A UK-built and supported unit in Mombasa will help protect more vulnerable children from sexual predators and traffickers operating along the Kenyan Coast, according to British commission in Kenya. Officially opened by... Read more »

EurAfrican Forum in search for common ground

The 3rd edition of the EurAfrican Forum to be held on July 2nd and 3rd in Cascais, Portugal will be gathering over 700 European and African key actors from more than 60... Read more »

AFDB equips youth through TVET program

The African Development Bank and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa have called for stronger links between technical and vocational education and training and industry to equip young people... Read more »

The issue of women should not be a onetime campaign: Women journalists

ADDIS ABABA– With their number standing low, women journalists are contributing less in reporting women’s issues in the media, said Women Journalists who also argues the issue has become a onetime campaign.... Read more »