Trump says someone else got his Nobel peace prize BY TESFANEWS * Days after ordering the killing of Iran’s top general and threatening to hit the country’s military and cultural sites “harder than they have ever been hit before,” President Donald Trump has now turned his attention to the Nobel Peace Prize.
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“I accept this award on behalf of my partner and comrade in peace Isaias Afwerki whose good will, trust and commitment were vital in ending the two decade deadlock between our countries.” BY BLOOMBERG Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for forging an end to almost two decades of conflict […]
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‘Highly problematic’ that Abiy Ahmed, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize won’t attend any event where he could be asked questions publicly – Nobel body BY ASSOCIATED PRESS The director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has called it “highly problematic” that the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner won’t attend any event next week where […]
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BY LAVRILLEUX ARIANE | LE POINT INTERNATIONAL * Two months before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , the Prime Minister of Ethiopia sent a letter to “His Excellency” President Emmanuel Macron . On July 22, 2019, Abiy Ahmed asked France to help “strengthen the Ethiopian Air Force” by providing, on credit, a sophisticated […]
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Jawar Mohammed’s comments come as Oromia police commissioner says death toll in two days of protests stands at 67. BY AL JAZEERA Prominent activist and media entrepreneur Jawar Mohammed has said he might challenge Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in elections planned for next year, accusing him of resorting “to the early signs of dictatorship”.
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BY TESFANEWS Eritrea’s foreign ministry summoned Germany’s ambassador to Asmara earlier this week over “unbridled smear campaigns” by the state-funded international broadcaster, the Deutsche Welle (DW), against the country, Eritrea’s Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel has said.
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BY BRONWYN BRUTON | FOREIGN POLICY Abiy Ahmed took up the reins of government in Ethiopia at a time of profound strife, and through a serious of deft political gestures, including the release of thousands of political prisoners and overturning highly repressive restrictions on civil society and political groups, he probably averted a civil war.
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BY DANIEL WEDI KORBARIA | L’ANTI DIPLOMATICO * The Nobel Prize was supposed to arrive in the Horn of Africa as early as four years ago when Kristian Berg Harpiken, director of the Oslo International Peace Research Institute, had the bad idea of nominating Don Mussie Zerai for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
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