Day: September 2, 2023

Hours to the new school year, teachers relaunched the operation “death chalk” to express their grievances against the government for not fulfilling the promises made on March 9, 2023.

The OTS movement in a release dated Thursday August 31, called on teachers to go to schools on Monday September 4 dressed in black, sign their presences, return to the staff hall or on the school yard, take photos and videos and publish them on social media.

The OTS release also called on teachers to avoid falling in traps or being intimidated by their hierachies.

The strike action this time will be endless depending on government’s reaction, they warned.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

One woman died and several others were severely injured in a road accident on the flyover in Bonaberi, Douala IV subdivision-Wouri Division of the Littoral region on Saturday September 2.

The injured persons among them those with fractures were rushed to the Bonassama District Hospital after the prompt arrival of an ambulance and the army rescue unit.

The victims were mourners and passengers of a mini inter-urban transport bus belonging to Golden Express Agency that was accompanying a corpse to Tiko in the South West region.

A witness narrated to CNA how the accident happened.

“The Golden bus and mourners left the Bonassama District Hospital mortuary as part of a convoy transporting the corpse of a deceased loved one to Tiko. While at the flyover around Fokou, the driver of the bus tried overtaking a truck transporting brewery products. The truck driver gave way, but the bus driver saw a vehicle coming ahead on high speed and immediately got so close infront of the truck he was overtaking, crashing together. A woman died on the spot while four others including the driver suffered severe injuries. We don’t know if they will survive. I pray God helps them.” Fabien Abonge, a witness narrated.

In the meantime, the deceased’s corpse has been deposited at the Bonassama District Hospital mortuary.

Both the bus and truck suffered enormous damage except the oncoming vehicle having a light scratch.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Medemer is a patriotic approach that teaches and encourages cooperation in order to improve the lives of citizens in addition to loving the country and the people, according to Democratic System Building Center Coordinating Minister Zadig Abraha.

A one-day panel discussion organized by the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), in collaboration with the Somali Region Communication Office, was held under the theme "Medemer: Patriotism of the Era" in the regional capital Jigjiga today.

Federal and Somali regional senior government officials as well as elders took part in the panel discussion.

During the discussion, Zadig Abraha, Democratic System Building Center Coordinator at the Office of the Prime Minster Office presented Medemer’s perspective on the concept of patriotism that promotes every sphere of life.

According to him, Medemer encourages working together to improve the lives of citizens.

Recalling that our forefathers defended the country with a spirit of patriotism and inherited to us a free nation, Zadig noted that the foundation of their victory was Medemer.

He explained that the idea of Medemer is based on the existing facts and values of Ethiopia as it is a homegrown concept.

For the coordinator, Medemer is patriotism that encourages loving the country, its people and working together to improve the lives of citizens.

Ethiopians need to therfore consolidate unity and togetherness in order to make the country prosperous with the combined capacity and spirit of patriotism, he stressed.

Somali Region Prosperity Party Branch Office Head, Mohamed Shalle said Medemer is solidarity that would elevate Ethiopia by pooling together the capacity of the country.

Mohamed noted that this homegrown thought has taught us that we should not spend our energy on hatred and bigotry but on helping one another and achieving growth.

In this cause, the head stressed the need for resolving differences peacefully rather than through conflict and hostile approach.

The head stated that the idea of Medemer is the new path for Ethiopia to exploit its indigenous wisdom which would free the country from foreign ideology.

Ethiopians need to ensure the elevation of their country, which is our common home, with the idea of Medemer, the legal scholar Roba Petros said.

The scholar who presented a paper entitled “Medemer and the Rise of Ethiopia” pointed out that there are ideas and resources in all areas that can make the rise of Ethiopia a reality.

Indicating that previous governments had in vain tried to implement non-indigenous ideologies without taking the Ethiopian context into consideration, he stated that Medemer has come with a different idea and approach.

For him, Medemer focuses on surveying the past, examining the present, and clearly setting the destination of tomorrow.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

Planning and Development Minister Fitsum Asefa and representatives of the Global Green Growth Institute and the Korea International Cooperation Agency discussed building climate resilience in Ethiopian cities through nature-based solutions in urban and peri-urban areas today.

During the discussion, the feasibility and implementation of the project that deals with building climate resilience in Ethiopian cities through nature-based solutions in urban and peri-urban areas were examined and the project developed.

According to Ministry of Planning and Development, the representative had fruitful discussion with respect to the project objective to catalyze urban green transformation and to enhance climate resilience in three selected Ethiopian cities within 6 years.

This project will focus mainly on urban resilience through restoring the ecosystems, afforestation, reforestation, and other nature-based solutions, it was learned.

In the meeting, Fitsum elaborated that the ministry has been implementing various climate change interventions to tackle the impacts of climate change and strengthen good practices and lessons on effective implementation adaptation and mitigation projects and programs.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

Ethiopia’s Accession to BRICS opens a “new and promising field of cooperation, the Ambassador of Brazil to Ethiopia, Jandyr Ferreira dos Santos, said.

Recall Ethiopia’s bid to join the emerging-markets bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) was endorsed at the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ethiopia was one of the 6 countries that was allowed to join the bloc.

In an exclusive interview with ENA, Ambassador of Brazil to Ethiopia Jandyr Ferreira dos Santos said the BRICS mechanism possesses a series of interlinked initiatives, such as the New Development Bank, the BRICS Business Council, the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance, and many others.

It promotes exchanges in areas such as media, culture, education, sports, arts, youth, civil society, academia, science, technology & among others, according to the ambassador.

To this end, he said that Ethiopia’s accession to BRICS opens a new and promising field of cooperation.

“Ethiopia will now take stock of what has been accomplished by the BRICS in each of these areas and start contributing its own initiatives and perspectives. We look forward to working with Ethiopia in this regard,” the ambassador stated.

Moreover, the ambassador said Ethiopia’s accession will bolster the BRICS’s call for inclusive multilateralism, respect for international law, and reform of the multilateral political and financial institutions, where all of them are dear to the developing world, and have long been defended by both Brazil and Ethiopia as individual countries.

“I believe that the rising interest in the developing world about the BRICS, as evidenced by the large number of countries that approached us willing to join the group, demonstrate that there is a positive momentum in the defense of these causes within the broader international community,” he indicated.

As a member of the BRICS in the near future, Ethiopian views and expertise on many issues raised here will be shared within the group, Ambassador Santos pointed out.

This will strengthen both the BRICS and Ethiopia to open new avenues of cooperation as discussions unfold, he said, adding “I’m very optimistic about the future of South-South cooperation within the BRICS and about the bilateral Brazilian-Ethiopian relationship as a whole.”

Speaking on the bilateral relationship between the two countries, the ambassador said Ethiopia and Brazil have enjoyed friendly relations for over 70 years.

“We have a fluid bilateral dialogue on all major global and regional issues, with very important common positions, in particular on the need for the developing countries to play a more important role in the world arena,” ambassador elaborated.

Trade and investment ties are growing where the daily flight of Ethiopian Airlines connects São Paulo with Addis Ababa, the ambassador said, adding there are many cooperation programs in place in areas of common interest, such as agriculture, in which Brazilian expertise can promote Ethiopian production

He said “we are evaluating other possible partnerships such as in sports diplomacy, an area for example in which we in Brazil stand to learn from the remarkable Ethiopian successes in athletics.”

In a nutshell, there is a wide and growing agenda between the two countries for the common benefit of our peoples, he noted.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency