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Ethiopia Correspondent for @France24 [email protected] or [email protected] Insta: tomcanetti.journalist

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Joined July 2020
🇪🇹 #Ethiopia is looking to position itself as an African leader in clean energy, as it prepares to host next year’s COP32 climate summit. Alongside the #GERD, the country is building another massive hydropower project on the Omo River in the southwest, as it expands electricity production and exports power to neighbouring countries. This report from our correspondent Tom Canetti ⤵️
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🇮🇱🇪🇹 #Ethiopia has one of the oldest jewish communities in the world. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, this community was persecuted under the communist regime, and 20,000 Ethiopian jews were evacuated. But a few thousand were left behind and are still waiting to rejoin their friends and family in Israël. A #FOCUS report by Tom Canetti 👇
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Somali refugees displaced by fighting with Al-Shabaab are being registered for Ethiopia’s national Fayeda ID, giving them access to services including healthcare, education, employment and freedom of movement. France 24 reports that 120,000 IDs have been issued, while about 400,000 refugees are in the registration process. Curated footage: France 24 #Ethiopia #Refugees #FayedaID
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🇪🇹 The #Ethiopian government, partnered with #UNHCR, is integrating refugees via mass issuance of digital IDs. Labelled the Fayda system, Amharic for “value”, it allows refugees the freedom to move throughout the country, access to education, and the ability to get a job. 🇸🇴 In the #Somali region, the initiative is giving hope to thousands who have fled Al-Shabaab and have been living in camps for years in limbo in some cases for decades. FRANCE 24’s correspondent @tomcanetti brings you the report ⤵️
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Ethiopia helps integrate Somalian #refugees with digital ID system, allowing them to start their own businesses. @UNHCREthiopia @France24_en youtu.be/doVdBhUcjtU?is=X3J_…
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L’Ethiopie pourrait bientôt devenir un nouveau géant du vin africain. Un partenariat entre viticulteurs locaux et experts français a permis l’importation de cépages bordelais. @france24 youtu.be/e5rHjHwkwkg?is=gqLb…
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UNHCR, Ethiopian, Japanese governments open multipurpose hub to aid 70,000 refugees living in Addis Ababa. @UNHCREthiopia @France24_en youtu.be/oidc_J2uNeg?is=ImFt…
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Emmanuel Macron: premier et dernier 14 juillet en deux photos AFP.
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From the mountains of #Tigray to the top of Australian athletics. Growing up in a remote village in Tigray, Ethiopia, Haftu Strintzos never imaged that running would one day define his life.
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Turkish leader Erdogan played a devious practical joke on NATO leaders. A fully loaded pistol in a gift box, hand-signed by the Turkish President himself, was given to each head of delegation before departing. Naturally, most did not bother opening the gift bag right there and then. Once they landed in their home countries, things went haywire. All the gift boxes in the luggage of various delegations were confiscated by airport police. Legally, you cannot carry a weapon into an aircraft - even a legally-registered weapon. It is a serious offence. You could be jailed. Amazing story.
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BREAKING NEWS | Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa signs consitutional amendment law that extends Presidential term to 7 years, scraps direct Presidential election.
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News: #Ethiopia excluded from global food crisis report due to data gaps despite ongoing humanitarian food needs The report notes that Ethiopia had been included in the 2025 edition, representing more than 27 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 2024 alongside four other countries and territories, but “no updated estimates were available for 2025.” It attributes the growing data gaps to “a combination of factors, including challenges to obtain authorization to collect or share data, limited funding and a lack of priority for data collection.” addisstandard.com/?p=58109
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The United States has said it will prevent the United Nations supporting an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia from the start of next year, two documents showed, in a move that officials said is likely to end its operations. reuters.com/world/africa/som…
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China may soon surpass France as the world's largest foie gras producer as its exports gain traction reut.rs/4vpe096
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A cat took to the stage during the final scene of a Romeo and Juliet ballet performance by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in İzmir
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🇪🇹Après des mois de tensions entre le gouvernement d’#AbiyAhmed et le #TPLF, un drone a frappé #Sheraro, près de l’Érythrée. Crainte d’une reprise du conflit dans une région déjà marquée par l’une des guerres les plus meurtrières du XXIe siècle. Correspondance @tomcanetti⤵️
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Une frappe de drone a été lancée contre le #TPLF dans la ville de #Sheraro, au nord du #Tigré après des mois de tensions entre #Mekelle et Addis Abeba. @france24
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#FOCUS - 🇪🇹 L’#Éthiopie vote ce 1 er Juin pour des élections générales. Après une campagne qui a laissé peu de place à l’opposition, le parti du Premier ministre Abiy Ahmed part grand favori. 🔧 Au cœur de son bilan : le “projet corridor”, un vaste chantier de modernisation du pays. Mais plus de 10 000 personnes ont été expulsées pour réaliser les rêves de développement du gouvernement. Reportage de Tom Canetti ⤵️
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