Initial reports coming out of areas recently retaken by #Ethiopian forces show immense destruction. Residents in these places say the TPLF rebel group, who controlled for few weeks, massacred people, gang raped women and girls, destroyed properties and looted food and medicines.
ETHIOPIA EXCLUSIVE: Residents of the recently retaken town of Lalibela showed BT around a health center that they say the TPLF ransacked and rendered non-operational. These same residents told us the damage resulted in multiple preventable maternal deaths.
#NoMore U.S.-backed wars in Ethiopia, Eritrea or anywhere else. #NoMore U.S.-backed genocide in the Amhara Region, Palestine or Yemen. U.S. hands off Africa! U.S. out of everywhere!
#Ethiopia: 561.7 billion Birr ($13.0 billion) record budget approved by Council of Ministers for FY 2021/22.
10 years ago, 2011/12, it was 117.8 billion Birr ($4.75 billion, using 2011 exchange rate).
The budget increased 376% in 10 years, (Birr terms) in-line with GDP growth.
Selam Mortgage Bank (under formation) launched in #Ethiopia yesterday.
SMB to finance 100,000 affordable mortgages totaling Birr 200 billion in the next 5 years for middle & low income borrowers & help create the largest generation of homeowners’ wealth in Ethiopia’s history.
#DidYouKnow
The @AfCFTA is effectively the world’s largest free trade area since the formation of the World Trade Organization. @TheGGDA hosts webinar on the 28th of May 2021, at 14h00 CAT, as part of @GautengProvince#AfricaMonth2021.
Register here: https://t.co/IOnVJZitkb