Famed Ethiopian artiste donates $36,000 to victims of Burayu violence

toko — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 03:05:12 +0000

African News: – Teddy Afro a famed Ethiopian musician has donated one million birr (about $36,000) to victims of recent violence, according to the Ethiopian reporter news outlet.

Violence in the town of Burayu located on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa claimed over fifty lives and displaced about 12,000 people from the area.

Most of the displaced are currently sheltered in Addis Ababa with the Oromia government having firmly promised that it will take charge of their rehabilitation and return.

In Burayu, local residents said shops were looted and people attacked by people reported to be mobs of Oromo youth who stormed through streets targeting businesses and homes of ethnic minorities.
Teddy Afro’s track titled ‘Ethiopia’ was published on video sharing website Youtube on April 14, 2017 and became an instant hit getting millions of views . The track marked Teddy’s global breakthrough and his fifth album since he started off 16 years back.

The 6 and half minutes track helped him top the Billboard World Albums chart, a feat the musician celebrated on his Facebook page. He told the BBC that the current track has exceeded his expectations. It is said to have sold over a million copies by close of 2017.

‘‘It gives me great joy, there hasn’t been an album that has been this well received to my knowledge. All of my music is based on love, like Martin Luther King said, hate is defeated with love, darkness with light,” he said.

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Ethiopia Opens Africa’s First Ever Waste-To-Energy Plant

toko — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 04:53:59 +0000

By Mariama Sow, Brookings – Last Sunday, Ethiopia inaugurated Africa’s first waste-to-energy facility. The Reppie waste-to-energy plant, located on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is built on the Koshe landfill site. The plant will absorbs 1,400 tons of waste daily—equivalent to 80 percent of Addis Ababa’s garbage— in order to supply 30 percent of the city’s electricity needs. The plant functions by incinerating waste, using the heat to boil water that then fuels an electricity-producing turbine engine. In order to limit emissions, the plant operates under strict regulations put in place by the European Union that prevent the release of dioxins generated through the combustion by using a flue gas treatment. The $120 million plant’s utility is twofold: It rids Addis of its waste problem—a landslide at the Koshe site in March 2017 killed nearly 144 people—and generates electricity for the growing city. The group behind the plant—which worked in collaboration with the Ethiopian Government— is made up of Cambridge Industries Limited (Singapore), China National Electric Engineering, and Ramboll, a Danish engineering firm. The group hopes that Reppie will be the first of many facilities of its kind implanted on the continent.

In other news, this week Ethiopian airlines announced that they would increase their involvement with other countries’ air companies. Tuesday, Ethiopian Airlines landed a deal that allocated it a 49 percent stake in Guinea’s national airline. It also acquired a 45 percent stake in Zambia’s national airline and created a new airline in Mozambique that it fully owns. Last week, the company submitted a bid to manage Nigeria’s national carrier. The company’s CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, stated that the airline is looking to strengthen ties with the carriers in other African countries to assist the takeoff of regional integration.

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Famed Ethiopian artiste donates $36,000 to victims of Burayu violence

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