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Climate change also affects the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country by reducing between 0.5% and 2.5% each year (estimate for 2010). [20] In the Awash basin in central Ethiopia floods and droughts are common. Agriculture in the basin is mainly rainfed (without irrigation systems). This applies to around 98% of total cropland as of 2012.
Meles played an important role in developing the African Union's position on climate change since 2009 [22] and was a 'friend of the Chair' at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [original research?] Meles Zenawi, a panelist at World Economic Forum on Africa 2012.
Ethiopia Human Rights Council: Listed the names of detainees and condemned the mass arrests of media groups and public defenders. [25] Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center (EHRDC): the group called on the Ethiopian government to the immediate release of journalists and to stop the restriction of access to the free flow of information. [26]
In 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front captured the capital Addis Ababa and ended the Ethiopian Civil War.The EPRDF was led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front and was dominated by those belonging to the Tigray ethnic group, which is a minority group comprising only about six percent of the country's population.
Ginbot 7 (Amharic: ግንቦት 7) is an Ethiopian opposition political organization, founded in 2008 [3] by Andargachew Tsige [4] [5] and Berhanu Nega. [3]According to their mission statement, Ginbot 7's goal is "the realization of a national political system in which government power and political authority is assumed through peaceful and democratic process based on the free will and choice ...
Köppen climate classification of Ethiopia. The predominant climate type is tropical monsoon, with wide topographic-induced variation. The Ethiopian Highlands cover most of the country and have a climate which is generally considerably cooler than other regions at similar proximity to the Equator. Most of the country's major cities are located ...
A government-run news agency, now called the Ethiopian News Agency, ran from 1942 to 1947, and then was relaunched in 1954. Early twenty-first century Ethiopian newspapers can be broadly divided into two categories, Ethiopia based and diaspora based, with the majority of the diaspora-based ones being digital-only newspapers.
Addis Standard is an Ethiopian monthly social, economic and political news magazine published [1] [2] and distributed by Jakenn Publishing Plc, and was established in February 2011 by Tsedale Lemma, [3] who is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine as of January 2021.