Ambassador Mike Hammer. Picture: State Department Addis Abeba - The US State Departments announced that Ambassador Mike Hammer will succeed the outgoing Ambassador David Satterfield as Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa. Ambassador Mike is the third US envoy to be appointed
Photo: UNICEF Addis Abeba - After a four-day visit to Ethiopia, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell called for a rapid scale-up of support to prevent a humanitarian disaster due to the drought in Ethiopia and the region. The director stressed that the effect of the drought in
Photo: Professor Legesse Negash By Teshome Hunduma (PhD) Addis Abeba - On 9 April 2022, Professor Emeritus Legesse Negash, from Addis Abeba University proposed the evergreen native tree, Podocarpus falcatus (Zigba in Amharic; Birbirssa in Afaan Oromo), as Ethiopia’s National Tree. He shared his proposal
