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Events of 2020 in Ethiopia.

Incumbents

Events

January
  • January 7 - Orthodox Tewahedo Christmas in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • January 19 - Timkat, celebration of Epiphany in Ethiopia and Eritrea

February
  • 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 a dam on the Nile River.[3]

March

April
  • 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
  • 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]

Predicted and Scheduled Events

Births

Deaths

February

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. News, A. B. C. "Kenyans protest house demolitions amid virus restrictions". ABC News. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  11. News, A. B. C. "Sudan pushes Ethiopia to resume stalled talks over Nile dam". ABC News. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  12. Ethiopia sets tentative August date for elections Reuters, 15 January 2020
  13. "NEBE Says Impossible To Hold Election As Per Scheduled Due To COVID-19". fanabc.com. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  14. "African election calendar 2020". Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa. 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  15. Abadi Hadis dead: Ethiopian long-distance runner passes away aged 22
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