2020 in Ethiopia

←

 2020
in
Ethiopia

→

Decades:
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:Other events of 2020
Timeline of Ethiopian history

Events of 2020 in Ethiopia.

Incumbents

Events

January through March
  • January 7 - Orthodox Tewahedo Christmas in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • January 19 - Timkat, celebration of Epiphany in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • 14 February – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo begins a visit to Senegal, Angola, and Ethiopia.[1]
  • February 20 - The Netherlands returns a stolen crown to the government of Ethiopia.[2]
  • February 29 – Egypt says it will use "all means" to defend its interests in a dispute with Ethiopia and Sudan over the new dam on the Nile River.[3]
  • March 2 - Victory at Adwa Day, Ethiopia
  • March 13 - 1st case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia[4]
  • 25 March – At least 60 people believed to be migrants from Ethiopia are found dead in a cargo container in Tete, Mozambique.[5]

April through June
  • 13 April – 14,000 cases of COVID-19 and 788 deaths have been reported across Africa. Cases by country: Comoros – 0, Djibouti – 214, Eritrea – 34, Ethiopia – 71, Kenya – 197, Madagascar – 106, Malawi – 13, Mauritius – 324, Mozambique – 21, Rwanda – 126, São Tomé and Príncipe – 4, Somalia – 25, South Sudan – 4, Tanzania – 32, Uganda – 54, Zambia – 43, Zimbabwe – 14[6]
  • 24 April – One million people in Ethiopia face hunger due to crop destruction by locust swarms. 25 million people in six states are struggling to feed themselves and a further five million could be threatened by hunger if the locust invasion was not contained. Swarms have been reported in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Tanzania.[7]
  • May 8
    • Bereket Simon, former Communications Minister for the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to six years of prison. Tadesse Kassa, a former TIRET Corporation board member, was also convicted.[8]
    • A hospital in Kilembe, Uganda and a small town Somalia are washed away in flooding; an unspecified number of people are killed. Hundreds of people have been killed by floodwaters in Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Rwanda, and Ethiopia which have also displaced hundreds of thousands across the region.[9]
    • Hundreds protest when the government destroys 7,000 homes and a market in Kariobangi, Kenya.[10]
  • May 12 – Sudan pushes Ethiopia to resume discussion related to the $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River that officials say will start filling in July.[11]

July through September

October through December
  • 3 November – At least dozen of peoples were massacred in ethnic violence in Oromia region, southwest Ethiopia.[18]
  • 4 November – "Scores, probably hundreds" of civilians are killed in the conflict in Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia.[19]
  • 7 November – the Ethiopian parliament voted to endorse the creation of an interim government for the northern Tigray region
  • 9 November – Up to 500 civilians were alleged to have been killed in a massacre in the town of Mai Kadra. Most of the victims were Amhara people, but there are conflicting reports regarding the aggresssors, Amnesty International suggesting that both Tigrayan forces and Ethiopian federal forces were involved in the massacres.[20]
  • 14 November – multiple rockets launched from Ethiopia hit Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea.UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia may destabalize the entire Horn of Africa.[21]
  • 15 November – 25,000 refugees flee from Tigray, to Sudan while the Federal Ethiopian Government invades the Ethiopian region of Tigray.[22]
  • 17 November – Mekelle was hit by an air strike killing two civilians and injuring several others.
  • 18 November – The Prime Minister was reported as saying that the Ethiopian Army was advancing on Mekelle, and had captured the cities of Shire and Axum.
  • 25 November – The Organization of African Unity sends ex-presidents Joaquim Chissano (Mozambique), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), and Kgalema Motlanthe (South Africa) to Addis Ababa to negotiate a peace.[23]
  • 27 November – The first of four United Nations humanitarian flights land in Khartoum carrying 32 tons aid from the UNHCR.[24]
  • 8 December – Tigray conflict: Government forces shoot at and temporarily detain representatives of the United Nations as they try to reach the Tigray Region. Camps holding 100,000 refugees in Eritrea are said to be without food.[25]
  • 15 December – Sudan says that "Ethiopian forces and militias" ambushed Sudanese army forces near Jabal Abutiour, Sudan. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited Ethiopia briefly on December 13 to discuss the security situation.[26]
  • 17 December – The U.N. pledges USD $35.6 million in civilian aid for the Tigray Region, including $25 million for Ethiopia and $10.6 million in Sudan.[27]
  • 21 December – Tigray conflict: The African Union says the military action of the Ethiopian government in Tigray was "legitimate".[28]
  • 23 December – The Amhara Mass Media Agency says that dozens of people have been killed along ethnic lines in Benishangul-Gumuz Region. Attacks in September and October in the same region killed 14 and displaced 300 people.[29]
  • 28 December
  • 31 December – The government human rights commission says 76 people were killed and 200 wounded in June and July during unrest following the killing of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa. The commission said a total of 123 people were killed and at least 500 were injured.[32]

Deaths

See also

References
  1. US secretary of state heads to Africa after long absence by Kristin Larson, AP, 14 February 2020
  2. Dutch government returns stolen 18th-century 'precious crown' to Ethiopia By Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 202 Feb 2020
  3. Egypt: We'll use 'all means' to defend Nile interests AP/Yahoo! News, 29 February 2020
  4. Lia Tadesse [@lia_tadesse] (21 April 2020). "Report#39 የኢትዮጵያ የኮሮና ቫይረስ ሁኔታ መግለጫ Status update on #COVID19Ethiopia" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. More than 60 people found dead in cargo container in Mozambique Al Jazeera, 25 March 2020
  6. Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban (13 April 2020). "Coronavirus in 52 African countries: 14,400+ cases, 788 deaths, 2,823 recoveries". Africa News.
  7. "How do you fight a locust invasion amid coronavirus?". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  8. "Ethiopia jails former minister for corruption". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  9. "Ugandan hospital, Somali town washed away by East Africa floods". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  10. "Kenyans protest house demolitions amid virus restrictions". ABC News. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  11. "Sudan pushes Ethiopia to resume stalled talks over Nile dam". ABC News. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  12. "Ethiopia: Military deployed after more than 80 killed in protests". Al Jazeera. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  13. Ethiopia sets tentative August date for elections Reuters, 15 January 2020
  14. "NEBE Says Impossible To Hold Election As Per Scheduled Due To COVID-19". fanabc.com. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  15. "African election calendar 2020". Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa. 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  16. Paravicini, Giulia. "Ethiopia's Tigray region to holds poll, defying federal government". news.yahoo.com. Reuters. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
  17. "Ethiopia bars journalists from flying to Tigray regional vote, passengers say". news.yahoo.com. Reuters. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  18. "Survivors count 54 dead after Ethiopia massacre, group says". Associated Press. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  19. "Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: 'Civilians massacred', says Amnesty International". yahoo.com. BBC. November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  20. ABUELGASIM, Fay; EL-MOFTY, NARIMAN; Anna, Cara (December 12, 2020). "Shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be 'tip of the iceberg'". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. AP. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  21. "Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: How the conflict could destabilise its neighbours". BBC News. 14 November 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2020. The stability of Ethiopia is important for the entire Horn of Africa region.
  22. "Nearly 25,000 Ethiopians flee to Sudan: state media". msn.com. AFP. November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  23. "African envoys head for Ethiopia as ultimatum expires for assault". yahoo.com. Reuters. November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  24. "First of four UN humanitarian airlifts for Ethiopia refugees lands in Khartoum". UN News. 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  25. Anna, Cara (8 December 2020). "Ethiopia's forces shoot at, detain UN staffers in Tigray". AP NEWS. AP. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  26. "Sudan says officers ambushed by Ethiopian 'forces and militias' during patrol". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  27. "UN announces $35.6 mn aid for civilians from Ethiopia's Tigray". msn.com. AFP. December 17, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  28. MELDRUM, Andrew (December 21, 2020). "African Union says Ethiopia acted legitimately in Tigray". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. AP. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  29. "Report says several dozen killed in latest Ethiopia massacre". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. AP. December 23, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  30. "Ethiopia: Reuters cameraman Kumerra Gemechu arrested". news.yahoo.com. BBC World News. December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  31. "Banks re-open in Ethiopia's Mekelle for first time since war began". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. Reuters. December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  32. "Ethiopian rights body says security forces killed at least 76 in summer unrest after musician's killing". Reuters. 1 January 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  33. Abadi Hadis dead: Ethiopian long-distance runner passes away aged 22
  34. "Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa shot dead in Addis Ababa". Al Jazeera. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  35. Ethiopian High Priest Kes Raphael Hadane passes away
  36. "Ethiopia's Oromia conflict: Why a teacher was killed 'execution-style'". news.yahoo.com. BBC World News. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  37. Ethiopia: Fikre Selassie Wogderess Former Prime Minister Passes Away at 75
  38. Ethiopia: Associate Prof Tesfaye Gessesse Passes Away At 84
  39. Omicidio Agitu Gudeta, confessa il collaboratore: violentata prima di ucciderla per uno stipendio non pagato (in Italian)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.