Professor Senait Fisseha
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope”. MLK.
Joined June 2013
Yesterday, I was overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude as I cast my vote in #Rwanda, a nation that chose unity over ethnic division, and love over hate. This nation has become my hope and dream for a new Africa—where unity, peace, development, good governance, and security are
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What’s happening in #Ethiopia is gut wrenching. Behind the dispassionate statistics on both sides are our Ethiopian brothers & sisters. The humanitarian crisis is deepening. The social media hatred & bravado is fueling further pain & division. War has no winners, only survivors!.
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“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”. MLK
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Congratulations to the governments of #Rwanda, President @PaulKagame and Prime Minister of #Barbados, @miaamormottley and @DrTedros of @WHO for spearheading #HEDPAC, a groundbreaking South-South collaboration between #Africa and the #Caribbean! Your commitment to advancing
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congratulations to the phenomenal @SahleWorkZewd, the current @UN ambassador to @_AfricanUnion for becoming #Ethiopia’s first female president, breaking the glass ceiling. With gender-balanced cabinet & now this, #PMAbiy is indeed showing the world how to beat patriarchy! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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ፈራን .እንዳልተዛመድን እንዳልተዋለድን.ፈርተን መዋደድን ጉርብትናን ናድን.እኛነትን ትተን እኔን ለመድን. ፈራን. ፍቅርን ፈራን ጥላቻን ሠራን ብቸኝነትን ጠራን.በ���ራ ቤታችን አጥር ድንበር ሰራን . #TsegayeGebreMedhin.Photo credit - found on social media
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Ethiopia has lost more people from ethnic and religious based targeted killings in the last ten months than #Covid19. It’s indeed a new epidemic that we are getting sensitized too. It’s painful to watch the most vulnerable in our communities being attacked. #StopEthnicViolence.
Stop the epidemic of killings of civilians!. Call for an all-inclusive national dialogue, and . Set out a roadmap towards sustainable peace, democracy and development.
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U.S. Halts Some Foreign Assistance Funding to Ethiopia Over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Dispute with Egypt, Sudan. But it was the will and determination of the #Ethiopian people and not foreign aid that is paying for #GERD. #ItsMyDam
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This is outrageous. The chinese government needs to be held accountable for such widespread racism.
Is it a crime to be born black??How can #China do this? Black people can’t shop in Chinese malls but these folks are enjoying their ass in Africa #KomeshaChinese
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I am deeply honored & proud to be admitted to the prestigious Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynecology in #UK as an honorary fellow for my work in advancing global woman’s health. Proud to have #FRCOG after my name 🤩 @RCObsGyn
We are delighted to welcome Professor Senait Fisseha @DrSenait as an Honorary Fellow of the RCOG. Professor Fisseha is a globally-recognised leader in reproductive health & rights and a lifelong gender champion.
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Season’s Greetings and Holiday Wishes from our family to yours! ❤️❤️❤️
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It’s tragic to hear about the arbitrary arrest and detention of peaceful protestors in addis within 24 hours of an incredible celebration of @PMEthiopia winning the NobelPeacePrize. Can the PM’s office or the mayor explain to the public what’s going on? #Istandwithaddis.
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Religious leaders please use your power and common sense to protect the poor and the vulnerable. Social distancing is the order of the day! Your power and privilege comes with enormous responsibility. Please tell your follower to stay home and pray!. ☪️✝️☯️🕎☮️.
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“Police mistreatment of black Americans is both a reality and a moral stain that threatens to tear our country apart”. By @AndrewYang . #GeorgeFloyd.#icantbreathe .#BlackLivesMatter
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HappyLiberationDay #Rwanda & thank you @PaulKagame for creating a nation that inspires hope & progress.Your visionary leadership continues to inspire generations in Rwanda & beyond, proving that a united & determined people can overcome even the most challenging of circumstances.
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መልካም አዲስ አመት.Happy Ethiopian New Year! 💚💛❤️.It’s been a tumultuous year but every cloud has a silver lining and we are so thrilled to call 🇷🇼Rwanda 🇷🇼 our new home ❤️. “Just Go. Go see the beauty in the world”! . Nyungwe Forest National Park, Rwanda ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed #COVID19 Cases. Unemployment data set a bleak record and hospitals struggled with an influx of sick patients and lack of equipment. via @NYTimes @DrTsion @jeremyfaust
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A historic stride towards health equity! 👏🏽👏🏽Kudos to President @PaulKagame for exemplary leadership 🇷🇼🌍 Collaborating with @BioNTech_Group and with support from development partners, today, Africa took a giant leap in tackling vaccine inequity by establishing the first mRNA
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What a magnificent way to end 2019! I thought I had seen it all, having traveled the six continents extensively, but there is nothing as exhilarating as coming face to face with this majestic gorillas in Volcanoes National Park! .#GorillaTrekking .#VisitRwanda .#ThisIsRwanda 🇷🇼
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Happy 2020 Everyone! . May the new year brining us all calmness, kindness and fulfillment of dreams. And that 2020 be a time of peace, love and contentment for the world! . with love and gratitude from Ethiopia ❤️❤️❤️. #UnityPark.#Ethiopia .#ThankYou @AbiyAhmedAli
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“U.S. to keep working with Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan on Blue Nile dam - Reuters”. Thank you but no thank you! You’ve already shown that you’re not objective! So please stay out! We can manage our own regional affairs! . #ThisIsMyDam 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹.
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1/6 visited IDPs in Mekelle, Chagni and Konos. Heartbreaking to see people displaced in every corner of Ethiopia 🇪🇹. Hard to describe the depth of their suffering.
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#Ethiopia is a sovereign nation with its own languages that has never been colonized by westerns & mastery of the English language isn’t how we measure our competency. #Egypt needs to focus on the real issue here - Equittable Use of the Nile! .#GERD.@mfaethiopia.@AbiyAhmedAli.
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Thank you @camanpour for having me on your show. So grateful to have your balanced reporting that is hyper focused on getting at the truth and the whole truth, not the alternative truth. Much gratitude!.
WHO Director General’s chief adviser @DrSenait Fisseha: “Talking to my friends who are frontline in NY… They’re posting very very terrible stories of how their system is completely overwhelmed, they don’t have access to basic things. They are exhausted mentally, physically.”
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CALL TO ACTION! . Please sign this @Change petition showing your solidarity for standing up with @DrTedros & @WHO as he brings everyone together to fight the #covid19 pandemic!. #IStandWithDrTedros .#TimeForSolidatityNotStigma.#IStandWithWHO . via @Change.
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On this #LiberationDay, may #Rwanda and its people be abundantly blessed. May the nation continue to thrive in peace, unity, and prosperity, guided by the wisdom and integrity of its leader, President @PaulKagame. May every Rwandan find joy, opportunity, and fulfillment in this
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We remember the lives so brutally taken in the Genocide against the Tutsi and stand with survivors who carry unimaginable pain. May remembrance bring strength and healing. Rwanda’s rise from tragedy reflects the unbreakable spirit of its people. #Kwibuka31.
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Congratulations to Dr.@lia_tadesse for your appointment as the minister of health of #Ethiopia. Very much looking forward to continuing our robust collaboration with you @FMoHealth @DrTedros @ClintonHealth @ResolveTSL @DrTomFrieden @HDTadesse @BMGFIndia @katehamptongray @Atayeshe
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Once we have 4 confirmed cases, you can expect it to double every three days. We don’t have more cases because we are not testing. We won’t slow down the spread unless we take radical measures. We need to ban mass gatherings, promote social distancing & promote hand washing.@WHO.
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It’s a big mistake for @POTUS to suspend @WHO funding in the middle of a global pandemic. @WHO is the only organization that can collect data from 194 countries,conduct analysis,put medical & scientific resources on the ground & coordinate response. This decision will cost lives!.
Trump says US 'halting funding' to WHO over coronavirus response
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Yesterday, I was at #Rwanda’s 30th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi, to honor the memory of over 1 million lives lost. I felt again the impact and the hope that modern Rwanda, my new home, represents. My full reflection via the @Telegraph:.
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“The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. You have lived and lived well, my friend. The world is a much better place because of you. RIP #PaulFarmer 💔
#BREAKING: Dr Paul Farmer, a renowned American physician and co-founder of Partners in Health @PIH, has died aged 62. Farmer was a receipt of the National Order of Outstanding Friendship (Igihango), which he was conferred upon by President #Kagame in August 2019.
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Thank you H.E @PaulKagame & @FirstLadyRwanda for sharing your vision & actions to ensure #HealthForAll as a backbone of economic development & prosperity through community enagagement. #Rwanda is pushing for #UHC by taking #PHC including #SRH to the lowest level of the community
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I am deeply honored for this recognition by @GlobalJusticeC & accept the award on behalf of all women, changemakers, especially those in the Global South, who work against the odds towards a feminist future every day but are rarely recognized in the way that they deserve. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽.
We'll be honoring @DrSenait and the Women's League of Burma - women who serve as a #FeministInspiration to us and so many others fighting for global gender equality.
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"Privilege is when you think that something is not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally. " . David Gaider
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#ThisIsRwanda🇷🇼 !!⬇️⬇️⬇️.#LeadeshipMatters! . The total lockdown is coupled with screening, testing, contact tracing, isolating, treating and monitoring while gearing up for the worst This is how you totally slow down the #COVID19 pandemic!. @RwandaHealth 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. #publichealth.
Rwanda Is First African Country to Impose Total COVID-19 Lockdown #Rwanda #RwandaLockdown #COVID19 #Coronavirus #CoronavirusInAfrica
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Incredible and model leadership continues to come from #Rwanda that the rest of #Africa should emulate on how to prevent the spread of #COVID19 as the pandemic evolves & continues to spread rapidly! Murakoze Cyane #GovernmentofRwanda @RwandaGov.
Observing the global trend of the COVID-19 & considering the experiences of other countries, there is a clear need for additional steps to ensure that COVID-19 does not spread further in Rwanda. The following measures will be in force beginning at 23:59 on 21/03/2020 for 2 weeks
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While remembering the lives lost on the tragic plane crash on Saturday morning, I was back on @FlyEthiopian Saturday afternoon flying over the beautiful & regal mountains of #Tigray, on my way to #Asmara 🇪🇷 & today just headed back to the US where cold weather & warm hearts await
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Whoever controls the media, controls the narrative.
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#Ethiopia is a sovereign nation with its own languages and has never been colonized by westerns -so mastery of the English language isn’t how we measure our competency. #Egypt needs to focus on the real issue here - Equittable Use of the Nile! .#GERD.@mfaethiopia.@AbiyAhmedAli.
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Anyone who knows @DrTedros can speak to his integrity & steadfast leadership. #DrAnthonyFauci today said . “Tedros is really in an outstanding person.I have known from the time he was the minister of heath of #Ethiopia . under his leadership, they[@WHO]have done very well”. ⬇️.
“Tedros (@DrTedros) is really an outstanding person. I’ve known him from the time he was a Minister of Health in #Ethiopia. I think under his leadership, [the WHO] has done very well. He’s been all over this [the #coronavirus outbreak].”.Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of US NIAID
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What a way to end #2021. I watched all six episodes nonstop today …only Netflix show I watched this year. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Thanks & Happy New Year @ava & @Kaepernick7 . “To the underestimated, the overlooked and the outcast, trust your power”. #ColinInBlackandWhite.
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Thank you President @PaulKagame for your resolve & commitment to uplift #Africa. This remarkable partnership with @BioNTech_Group will enable #Rwanda to produce the first #mRNA vaccine in the continent & the ability to produce malaria & oncologic drugs. #LeadershipAtItsBest! 🇷🇼.
Historic milestone today as the first @BioNTech_Group BioNTainers arrived in Rwanda, exactly 3 years since the first case of Covid-19 was detected in our country. This system will allow end-to-end mRNA vaccine production in Africa for the first time.
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“In some places in the world right now [like where I live in the #USA], getting tested for COVID-19 remains difficult or nearly impossible. In #Rwanda, you might just get tested randomly as you're going down the street”. #ThisIsRwanda.@RwandaGov
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What a pleasure to meet with 7/10 female ministers of @PMEthiopia gender balanced cabinet (sorry Minister Hirut you missed photo) & brainstorm about #genderequality & sustainable impact as well as the privileges & responsibilities that come with breaking the glass ceiling 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
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So grateful to everyone who believed in my vision when I launched @CIRHT. MICHU Clinics-Serving Women Quality & comprehensive Maternal & Reproductive Health Care are now open in Addis, Bahirdar, Adams, Mekelle, Gonder, Haromaya Hawassa, Debre Tabor & Jimma
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Happy Birthday @Malala 🎂. We were so delighted to have you, your amazing dad @ZiauddinY & @MabelvanOranje in #Ethiopia. Thank you for your relentless advocacy for the rights of girls around the 🌍. We sure do need to tackle the high dropout rate of girls in schools in Ethiopia!
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@NatyYifru Thanks, Nati. Unfortunately, Ethiopia doesn’t allow dual citizenship and voting for the diaspora. Having left Africa three and a half decades ago before reaching voting age, participating in this election on African soil held profound significance for me. For the past four.
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I am deeply humbled and honored to be nominated along with this amazing trailblazer women. Much gratitude to my fellow Ethiopian, African and global sisters and brothers for this recognition. 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽 @Athena_40.
Watch these amazing women! .@RougeCouture @ProfSaraSeager @DrSenait Shainoor Khoja. You are shortlisted for the Athena40 List 2020 that recognises innovative women. Way to go!.Join the Athena40 Forum n Gala London 23/04/2020-info@athena40.org . @Athena_40. #womenrolemodels
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I was delighted to join President @PaulKagame, @FirstLadyRwanda, HE Jeanette Kagame, HE Graça Machel, @G_MachelTrust, Tsitsi Masiyiwa of @HigherLifeFDN & @APForg ED, @MosunLayode & give the Keynote address at the African Philanthropy Forum #APF2022 Annual Conference in #Kigali.
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My gratitude goes to the dedicated and capable colleagues in #Ethiopia and elsewhere with whom I have the privilege and honor of working together to make a lasting difference and change lives. Thank you @PMEthiopia for your generous recognition, inspiration and kind words 🙏🏽.
Citing the importance of women leaders driving political & social change, he expressed his gratitude to women’s leadership advocates like @DrSenait. PM Abiy also recognized & awarded Dr. Senait Fisseha for her continued support to #Ethiopia, particularly in the health sector. 2/3
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So grateful for the doctors & nurses at @kfaisalhospital for taking excellent care of our daughter. Very impressed with the quality of care, high service standards & the cleanliness of the facility.She is back to her happy self❤️. @dreddiekalimba @MiliardD
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So happy to be back in my beautiful city where the air feels lighter! ❤️. #TheLandofaThousandHills #BeautifulKigali .#CarFreeDay @CityofKigali.
This morning, President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame joined Kigali residents for the bi-monthly #CarFreeDay.
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2898 is the correct number of doctors to be employed.
ለረጅም ጊዜ ያለ ስራ ተቀምጠው የነበሩ 2988 ኢትዮጵያን ሃኪሞቻችን ከጤና ጥበቃ ሚኒስቴር ጋር በመተባበር ወደ ስራ መሰማራት በመቻላቸው በጣም ደስተኛ ነኝ @lia_tadesse @FMoHealth . #PromiseMadePromiseKept .
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It was an honor to meet with #President @SahleWorkZewde. Thank you for your vision & aspiration for the well being of #Ethiopians, especially those that are marginalized & vulnerable including women. I look forward to closely working with you for #GenderEquality & a better future
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We are better than this Ethiopia. What has been happening from Burayu to Sebeta,from Adama to Dodola,from Kimant to Omo is desensitizing us to the pain & suffering!Targeted ethnic & religious attacks must stop & justice must be served!We must pull together as a communityነግ በኔ.
"A father instinct, I called to check on my kids and was told they were all ok. After 20 minutes, I was called back, to be told my 16 year old son was knifed to death. He should have been the one burying me. Not me burying him, the father of one of the youngest victims told me.
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When #Rwanda commits to do something, it gets done. #InspiringLeadership #LeadershipMatters .#VaccineEquity .#WhenThereIsAWillThereIsAWay.
Rwanda's president says he's working to bring the first mRNA vaccine plant to Africa
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Thank you President @PaulKagame in showing us in action, not in words, what it means to have real political commitment to pushing for a gender equality world by creating the opportunity for full participation of women in the political discourse. 🙏🏽.
Whenever women gain,we all gain as a country. There can be no true progress without equality. Thank you for playing your rightful and equal role in Rwanda’s transformation. Happy International Women’s Day to our sisters,mothers & daughters in Rwanda and across the world. #IWD2020.
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Gates Foundation to focus entirely on #coronavirus . This is huge!!! Thank you .@gatesfoundation @WHO .#covid19
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Congratulations my friend for this well deserved recognition. Your calm & steadfast leadership is precisely what the world needs in these uncertain times. Thank you for leading with grace and for your unwavering commitment to ensure #HealthForAll. @DrTedros @jeune_afrique @WHO
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Rwanda: a land of thousand hills & million smiles😊! So looking forward to spending my holidays there. #ThisIsRwanda.
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An audience with @PaulKagame : Learning to win-“Given our history,” he says, “it’s really up to Africans to try and make sense of this legacy and find out what parts of it fit their purpose to be able to obtain the transformation that we all want.”
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The world has a lot to learn from this great nation about cohesion, reconciliation, healing, uplifting people out of poverty, nation building, resilience & unity in the aftermath of a horrific genocide just 25yrs ago. #Umuganda #BuildBridgesNotWalls @DianeGashumba @Imbuto #Rwanda
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Seeing this parents weep without getting clear answers from the authorities on the whereabouts of their children brings painful memories of my childhood, vivid memories of my heartbroken mother frantically rounding the city in search of her son whose body was never found. #PTSD💔.
Female students are missing. The government is not taking action. There is no information about them. Protection is the priority & basic expectation that the government MUST deliver. #Wherearethestudents.@AbiyAhmedAli @BilleneSeyoum @BerhanuTsegaye @PMEthiopia @SahleWorkZewde
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I checked with @FMoHealth. They said they were just announcing the start of a research study on the impact of traditional medicines on COVID19. There is no known cure for #COVId19 & #prevention remain the most important step we can take to slow down tje spread of this pandemic.
@hilina_belete I hope people like @DrSenait @DrTedros will step in either publicly or in private & calm our "ministers" down and be a voice of reason, science, facts and probably save lives.
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.@Google fires AI researcher @TimnitGebru over critical email. ‘Timnit, who has criticized the company’s lack of diversity, emailed co-workers that she felt “constantly dehumanized." Her managers, she said, abruptly fired her shortly after’.
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“This atrocity ranks among the worst documented so far in this conflict. Besides the soaring death toll, Axum’s residents were plunged into days of collective trauma amid violence, mourning and mass burials” .💔💔💔.
In late November last year, Eritrean troops in #Tigray committed a massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians. Our new briefing investigates what happened before, during and after those harrowing 24 hours. Read it here: 📢.
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መልካም አዲስ አመት በመላው አለም ለምትገኙ ኢትዮጵያውያን. አዲሱ አመት የሰላም: የጤና: የደስታ: የፍቅር: የተስፋ: የምህረት: የመቻቻል: የደግነት እና የሩህሩህነት ይሁንልን! 🇪🇹 🌼🇪🇹🌻🇪🇹🌼🇪🇹🌻. Happy New Year for all Ethiopians across the globe! ☮️ ❤️ 🌍🌻
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Shout out to #Rwanda for topping the index, being among the top 10 most gender equal countries in the world, demonstrating that a gender equal world is achievable when there is good political leadership & governance, not just resources. @PaulKagame @LMushikiwabo @DianeGashumba 🇷🇼.
The global #gendergap20 report is out! Warm congrats to #Iceland, #Norway #Finland and #Sweden for topping the index of most gender equal countries. Though still a long way to go for #GenderEquality at large.
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I am an academician & see value in knowledge sharing, but we MUST find a better way of serving the vulnerable than having more meetings, more convening & more photo ops where we salute each other. We need disruption in global heath to get more resources where they’re needed most.
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Thank you, President @PaulKagame, for the opportunity to deepen our partnership in advancing #Rwanda’s health agenda, with a bold focus on women & girls. Your unwavering pursuit of results and impact showcases the transformative power of visionary leadership and good governance.
This afternoon, President Kagame received a delegation from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, led by @DrSenait. They discussed the foundation’s work to strengthen health systems in Africa.
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Today we elected @JoeBiden as the 46th president of the United States 🇺🇸. Today decency won! 🙌🏽. And let’s not forget @KamalaHarris, the first woman to be the Vice President of this country, a daughter of Indian and Jamaican president of the #United State 🎉🎉🎉
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become”.Steve Jobs
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A sad day for #Ethiopia & a big loss for the whole world. You gave hope to thousands of dejected women & restored their dignity. You were an inspiration to many of us & showed us what’s possible when one commits from the heart. It was an honor to know you #DrCatherineHamlin. #RIP
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“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings”.– Hodding Carter. #SaturdayThoughts .“Teach your daughters to worry less about fitting into glass slippers and more about shattering glass ceilings”.
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For those who missed @AbiyAhmedAli speech, you can watch 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽. His speech & delivery were impeccable & I hope it serves as a stepping stone for internal peace and reconciliation 🇪🇹. Abiy Ahmed Ali - Nobel Lecture - @NobelPrize
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Thank you @siusom for honoring me with the #DistinguishdAlumni Award. It was an honor to address the class of 2019 & remind the newly minted doctors they have the moral imperative to use their power, privilege & platform to effect change & should not simply accept the status quo.
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So proud to have you represent #Ethiopia at the world stage. Well done minister @lia_tadesse 👏🏽 🇪🇹👏🏽.
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“In a world where you can be anything , be kind”!
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