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Groups send medical supplies to Ethiopia
by Sydney Hildebrandt / WFP The Times / Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 An airplane full of medical supplies is on its way to Ethiopia, where thousands of people have been killed or displaced due to an ongoing conflict in the country’s northern region of Tigray. Ethio-Canadian Network for Advocacy and Support — whose vice-chair is Garden City resident Markos Tegegn — is co-ordinating a shipment of bandages, nasal cannulas, syringes, needles, sutures, catheters and other medical items to the East African country. Markos Tegegn (left), vice-chair of Ethio-Canadian Network for Advocacy and Support, and Mengistu Ayalew Kindie, organized the shipment of medical supplies to Ethiopia. SUPPLIED PHOTO The turmoil in Ethiopia can be described as a “war,” Tegegn said. The conflict is rooted in a political dispute between leaders in Tigray and the country’s federal government. According to media reports, thousands of civilians have been displaced or killed since Nov.…
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Ambassador Nassise Chali confers with Canadian MPs
by Helen Tadesse / Walta Info / 8 December 2020 Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Canada, Ambassador Nassise Chali has held a webinar discussion with members of the Canadian Parliament and Executive members of the Ethio – Canadian Network for Advocacy & Support regarding the law enforcement operation in Tigray. She explained the fruits of the sweeping reform under the new political dispensation that improved the legal system expands the political sphere and restructured the National Election Board that freed it from undue influences. The TPLF clique, however, was busy undermining the reform exhibiting unruly behaviors, including masterminding ethnic and religion-based violent actions all over the country, she said. She said the government lost all its patience, restraint, and pleas for negotiation and reconciliation to peacefully resolve issues with the TPLF group after the latter attacked the Northern command of the Ethiopian Defense Forces. The law enforcement operation in Tigray is now…
Surplus hospital beds heading to Ethiopia
Joe Paraskevas | Winnipeg Free Press | 19 October 2007 Twenty-five former hospital beds destined to become scrap metal were neatly lined up Thursday in a west Winnipeg warehouse bound for a much different fate. The beds — and a truckload of other medical supplies — were slated for the new pediatric AIDS wing of an Ethiopian university hospital. In the mid-morning drizzle, a handful of workers for two charities began to hoist the cargo into an empty 13-metre truck trailer. It was the seventh such load this year to leave the warehouse packed with equipment unwanted by Manitoba’s health-care system and headed for other countries. “The enormity of what’s disposed of is totally overwhelming,” said Valerie McIntyre, president of International HOPE Canada Inc. For the last six years, the Winnipeg-based organization has slowly filled the 3,500-square-metre warehouse near Polo Park with large and small health-care items. Surgical gloves and…