2019 in Ethiopia
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- 10 March 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya crashed six minutes after takeoff near the town of Bishoftu, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew aboard.[1]
- 29 July 2019 – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed leads a reforestation effort that planted 350 million trees in one day, believed to be a world record.[2]
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March[]
- March 10
- Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
- Pius Adesanmi, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer (b. 1972)[3]
- Christine Alalo, Ugandan police officer and peacekeeper (b. 1970)[4]
- Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist and politician (b. 1952)[5]
- Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
June[]
- June 22
- Ambachew Mekonnen, Ethiopian politician (b. 1971)[6]
- Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer (b. 1954)[7]
References[]
- ^ "Ethiopian Airlines: 'No survivors' on crashed Boeing 737". BBC News. 10 March 2019. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Ethiopia 'breaks' tree-planting record to tackle climate change". BBC News. July 29, 2019. Archived from the original on 15 September 2021. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
- ^ Pius Adesanmi dies in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
- ^ Christine Alalo gave Police a human face
- ^ Barresi, Mario (10 March 2019). "Schianto Boeing Etiopia, assessore Tusa a bordo. Dal Kenya: "Nessun sopravvissuto"" [Boeing Ethiopia crash, councilor Tusa on board. From Kenya: "No survivors"]. La Sicilia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Ethiopia's Amhara state chief killed amid regional coup attempt". Al Jazeera. 23 June 2019. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021.
- ^ John, Tara; Dean, Sarah (23 June 2019). "Failed coup sees Ethiopia army chief shot dead by bodyguard". CNN. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020.
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