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A cornerstone for 5 billion Birr irrigation development project has been laid today in Amhara Regional State of North Shoa Zone at Angolela Tera Woreda.
Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister, Sileshi Bekele and Amhara Region State Chief Administrator Agegnehu Teshager laid the cornerstone for the project.
The Chacha Irrigation Development Project will have the capacity to irrigate 7,000 hectares of land on its completion within three years, it was learned.
The project will benefit farmers residing in 10 Kebeles of Basona Worana and Angolela Tera Woreda of North Shoa Zone, it was learned.
Amhara Water Works Construction Enterprise and the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Corporation will construct the project.

Addis Ababa to restructure public institutions into two clusters

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January 18, 2021

The cabinet of Addis Ababa City Administration, during its regular session deliberated on several issues and passed decisions accordingly.
Accordingly, the cabinet decided to write off tax debt of Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia and exempt it from paying rental income tax to help the relief organization continue its altruistic works that focus on relieving sufferings children and parents.
The cabinet also decided to write off income taxes of low income women who are engaged in school feeding works.
Finally, decided to restructure city’s public institutions in to two clusters and relocate them to one place to facilitate speedy service and enable customers save time and labor and cost. Accordingly, cabinet of the city administration passed decision to construct buildings for bureaus and cut annual rent expense amounting 746 Million Birr.

Carter Center urges U.S. to ensure equitable global vaccine distribution

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January 18, 2021

While many rich nations, including the United States, have begun to vaccinate populations against COVID-19, even frontline workers in Africa must wait until April.
This is a moral challenge for the U.S., which has obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created after the global pain of World War II to enable all nations to prosper by guaranteeing basic human rights, including access to health care.
A year after the pandemic emerged, the U.S. is still absent from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX), a coalition of 190 countries formed in April 2020 by the World Health Organization, GAVI (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to share resources for vaccine development and distribution so all countries, regardless of income levels, would have equal access to the vaccines. Instead of receiving equitable distribution, developing countries have been relegated to the end of the vaccination line, a situation expected to be protracted, with an estimated two-thirds of the world’s population not getting a vaccine until 2022.

A record 2 million phishing sites reported in 2020, highest in a decade

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January 18, 2021

The year 2020 was a rollercoaster ride. With people shifting to remote work due to the pandemic, cybercriminals saw this as an opportunity and became more active than ever.
According to an Atlas VPN investigation, Google detected a record-high number of phishing websites last year, reaching more than 2.11 million.
“These websites pretend to be legitimate so that they can trick users into typing in their usernames and passwords or sharing other private information. Web pages that impersonate legitimate bank websites or online stores are common examples of phishing sites.”, explains Google’s Transparency Report.
In 2020, phishing sites jumped to 2.11 million, constituting a 25% growth over 2019, when the tech giant discovered 1.69 million malicious domains.
Moving back to 2010, Google detected an average of 317 dangerous sites per day. Last year, the number jumped to 5789 websites per day, representing a 1726% surge in a decade.
Looking at the last decade year-by-year, the volume of phishing portals grew by 43% on average.