Ethiopian Airlines Group has completed the assembly of three helicopters to be used in aerial chemical spraying to fight the desert locust infestation. The recent locust invasion, on a scale not seen in at least 25 years, has impacted different parts of the Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, Afar and Somali regional states. The situation is deteriorating in eastern Amhara, southeastern Tigray and eastern Oromia regions, according to the Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The locust invasion is particularly bad in Ethiopia and Somalia when compared to Kenya, where control operations have mostly eradicated the threat throughout the country, according to FAO. Other impacted countries include Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan and some Gulf countries. Locust control campaigns in southwest Asian countries like India, Iran and Pakistan have contained and mostly eradicated the pests.
January 15 , 2022
Foes and friends of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) agree that his administration is...
January 7 , 2022
There has not been much research to put a number on high costs wars inflict on Africa...
January 1 , 2022
It is a norm to emphasise grand structural changes to address the myriad political pr...
December 25 , 2021
In the words of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, it is older...
November 27 , 2021
Against my will, I have witnessed the most terrible defeat of reason and the most sa...
November 13 , 2021
Plans and reality do not always gel. They rarely do in a fast-moving world. Every act...
October 16 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI
Residing in a country with no capital market, an organised marketplace for trading se...
August 28 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI
The streets of Addis Abeba are as varied as they are many, although too many of them have yet to be named. From the narrow alleyways of the...
