Ethiopia: Zenawi is Ruling from the Grave
December 19, 2020
IGAD2020 Regional Security Watch Briefing:
In May 2010, Ethiopia announced the provisional result of a national election led by TPLF leaders which was designed the general expectation, the return of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to power and set him on the road to nearly 25 years in power.
Ethiopia’s Provisional election results were expected to return Meles to power amid accusations of fraud and intimidation. He tells Reuters and Horn of Africa Newsline that “he never expected to be in power for so long. “It’s happened,” he said. “I don’t regret it but I just hope that, at the end of it all, it will have been worth it.”
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When the PPIUD Initiative was first conceptualised in 2013, the focus was on reducing maternal mortality, in accordance with Millenium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5). It was well established that a 30% reduction in maternal mortality can be achieved by offering contraception to women in the reproductive age group. We knew that nearly 2.2 million women did not have access to contraception, even if they wanted it, and we wanted to reduce the number of abortions for unintended pregnancies.
We recognised that in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) there was little else offered to women postpartum other than permanent sterilisation. We wanted to support the societies in introducing long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCS) for mothers, so that they could have another child if and when then they wish, with spaced births. As well as reducing maternal mortality, birth spacing also reduces the likelihood of miscarriage, preterm births, intrauterine growth restriction and under-5
China helps accelerate process of international poverty reduction
By He Yin (People s Daily) 09:05, December 17, 2020
Farmers pick chrysanthemums in a poverty-alleviation planting base in Baokang county, Xiangyang, central China s Hubei province, Nov. 5. (People s Daily Online/ Yang Tao/) China is willing to work with all countries to promote international poverty reduction and build a community with a shared future for humanity, said Chinese President Xi Jinping in a congratulatory letter to the International Forum on Sharing Poverty Reduction Experience, which opened in Beijing on Dec. 14. In the letter, Xi also expounded on the historical process, great achievements and international contribution of the efforts made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government in poverty alleviation.