Fred Harter

Ādīs Ābeba Āstedader

Freelance Correspondent at The Times

Journalist in Ethiopia | @thetimes @guardian @theafricareport @newhumanitarian

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Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Fred Harter

In a workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, four writers wrapped in traditional white shawls sit in silent concentration, hunched over goat skin parchments, eyes straining in the dim natural light. Homemade bamboo pens in hand, ink pots by their sides, they are painstakingly writing out sacred texts in the religious language of Ge’ez – continuing an ancient manuscript writing tradition that has been practised in the Ethiopian highlands for millennia.
Israel's ambassador is ejected from an African Union event

2 weeks ago | fredericknewspost.com | Fred Harter |Samuel Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia was ejected from an African Union event this week and has described it as outrageous. An Israeli official on Wednesday told The Associated Press the ejection from the annual event commemorating the 1994 Rwanda genocide was at the request of AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Youssouf. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to a journalist. kAm“%96 ?6H p7C:42? &?:@? r@>>:DD:@? 492:CA6CD@?
Israel's ambassador is ejected from an African Union event

2 weeks ago | kdhnews.com | Fred Harter |Samuel Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Israel 's ambassador to Ethiopia was ejected from an African Union event this week and has described it as outrageous. An Israeli official on Wednesday told The Associated Press the ejection from the annual event commemorating the 1994 Rwanda genocide was at the request of AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Youssouf. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to a journalist.
Israel's ambassador is ejected from an African Union event

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Fred Harter |Samuel Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Israel ’s ambassador to Ethiopia was ejected from an African Union event this week and has described it as outrageous. An Israeli official on Wednesday told The Associated Press the ejection from the annual event commemorating the 1994 Rwanda genocide was at the request of AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Youssouf. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to a journalist.
Israel's ambassador is ejected from an African Union event

2 weeks ago | apnews.com | Fred Harter |Samuel Getachew

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Israel's ambassador is ejected from an African Union event

2 weeks ago | dailycorinthian.com | Fred Harter |Samuel Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Israel ’s ambassador to Ethiopia was ejected from an African Union event this week and has described it as outrageous. An Israeli official on Wednesday told The Associated Press the ejection from the annual event commemorating the 1994 Rwanda genocide was at the request of AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Youssouf. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to a journalist. kAm“%96 ?6H p7C:42? &?:@? r@>>:DD:@? 492:CA6CD@?
US AID Cuts Hit Ethiopia’s Fragile Tigray Region

3 weeks ago | sdvoice.info | Samuel Getachew |Fred Harter

By Samuel Getachew and Fred Harter, Associated PressAs a displaced person in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, 76-year-old Haile Tsege is no stranger to hunger. During its war with Tigray fighters that devastated the region in 2020-2022, Ethiopian government restrictions on the rebellious region reduced aid flows to a trickle. Then in 2023, U.S. and U.N. aid distributions of grain were halted for months over a corruption scandal.
Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray Are Back on a War Footing

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Fred Harter

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A political crisis in Ethiopia’s war-battered Tigray escalated dramatically in March, bringing armed men out onto the streets and raising fears of a fresh conflict in the still-fragile region. At its heart is a power struggle between Debretsion Gebremichael, chairman of the dominant Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, party, and Getachew Reda, Tigray’s interim regional president and Debretsion’s deputy in the TPLF.
Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray Are Back on a War Footing

4 weeks ago | worldpoliticsreview.com | Fred Harter

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A political crisis in Ethiopia’s war-battered Tigray escalated dramatically in March, bringing armed men out onto the streets and raising fears of a fresh conflict in the still-fragile region. At its heart is a power struggle between Debretsion Gebremichael, chairman of the dominant Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, party, and Getachew Reda, Tigray’s interim regional president and Debretsion’s deputy in the TPLF.
HIV soars after a deadly war in Ethiopia's Tigray. Trump's aid cuts aren't helping

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Fred Harter

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