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🇪🇹 ON THIS DAY IN ETHIOPIA

March 21 = Spring Equinox

Ethiopia celebrates:
• Kingdom of Aksum (1st century CE)
• One of oldest Christian nations (330 CE)
• Queen of Sheba & King Solomon

One of Africa's oldest continuous cultures!

#Ethiopia #Ethiopress #Aksum

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Here's what's happening in Ethiopia today 🧵👇🧵Here's what's happening in Ethiopia today 🧵👇

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Yekatit 12 is remembered as a day of national mourning. A monument stands in Addis Ababa honoring the victims. Ethiopia never forgot — and never forgave. 🦁

#Ethiopia #Yekatit12 #OnThisDay #EthiopianHistory #NeverForget

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🇪🇹 On This Day in Ethiopian History — February 19, 1937

Yekatit 12 (የካቲት ፲።) — The darkest day in modern Ethiopian history. Italian fascist forces unleashed a massacre on Addis Ababa that killed thousands of civilians.

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After two Ethiopian patriots threw grenades at Viceroy Graziani, Italian forces launched a 3-day rampage. A 2017 study estimates 19,200 killed — roughly 20% of Addis Ababa's population. Educated Ethiopians were specifically targeted.

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⚠️ Clashes between federal troops and Tigrayan forces persist in the Tsemlet area, with flights suspended. 80% of Tigray's population needs emergency food aid as USAID cuts devastate the region.

#Tigray #Ethiopia #HumanitarianCrisis

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🇪🇹 Ethiopia Daily Briefing — Feb 19, 2026

Erdogan's Addis visit yields $1B trade pledge, National Bank shrouds MPC appointments in secrecy, Tigray tensions simmer.

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🏦 Ethiopia's National Bank appointed two external MPC members but refused to reveal their identities. Governor Eyob Tekalign briefed a US delegation on macro reforms as the birr continues its slide.

#Ethiopia #EconomicReform #NBE

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Historian Ullendorff called him "one of the most outstanding Ethiopian kings of any age."

His victories recorded in "The Glorious Victories" — a testament to Ethiopian strength & sovereignty 🦁

#Ethiopia #EthiopianHistory #OnThisDay #AmdaSeyon #SolomonicDynasty

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🇪🇹 On This Day in Ethiopian History

February 18, 1332 — Emperor Amda Seyon I (አምደ ፅዮን), "Pillar of Zion," launched his legendary military campaigns to the south.

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One of Ethiopia's greatest medieval emperors, he expanded the Solomonic dynasty's reach across the Horn of Africa, spread Christianity to new frontiers, and united the Ethiopian kingdom into the powerful civilization we know today.

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3️⃣ 🦠 Marburg Outbreak Over

Ethiopia officially declares the end of its first-ever Marburg virus outbreak. The hemorrhagic fever near the South Sudan border has been contained.

Good news from the Horn. ✅

#Ethiopia #PublicHealth #Africa

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🇪🇹 Ethiopia News Roundup — Feb 18, 2026

Top 3 stories making headlines today 👇🏾

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2️⃣ 💧 Nile Dam Mediation

Trump offers to restart US mediation on the GERD dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt & Sudan. Both Egypt and Sudan welcome the move.

The decade-long standoff over Africa's largest dam could see a breakthrough.

#GERD #NileDam

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#Ethiopia:
1.Official creditors grant Ethiopia more time to pay debt without write-down:Reuters
2.Meta faces £1.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia:The Guardian
3.Ethiopia deploys 2,500 troops under new AU mission to fight al-Shabaab
: Hiiraan Online

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Don't talk about "democracy" when your choices for Prez are betw 1) a man w/mod.-severe cognitive impairment & 2) a compulsive liar; & your house is taken over by AIPAC to cover for genocide & Apartheid agst the interest of your citizens.

Don't talk about "democracy" anymore.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

A Palestinian-American doctor, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, walked out of the meeting with President Biden before it was over because “I wanted to let them know what it feels like for somebody to say something and then walk away from them and not hear them out, not hear their response.”

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Hope something good comes out of this agreement