Today’s Top Stories from Addis Standard https://youtu.be/VfxM8Wafyms?si=km9U0gJ4ge2jkdF-

Channel
Addis Standard
@AddisstandardEng
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
19,044subscribers
+11 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001195848774 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @AddisstandardEng |
| Description | An independent Ethiopia based online media focusing on current affairs. Original content+daily gist of media monitoring |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 30 June 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AddisstandardEng |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 08:08 | 19,044 | +7 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 08:43 | 19,037 | -6 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 11:52 | 19,043 | +5 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 10:52 | 19,038 | -6 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 13:37 | 19,044 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:16 | 19,042 | +8 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 15:50 | 19,034 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:30 | 19,033 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:24 | 19,033 | first reading |
Engagement
82 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 17 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 5.62%
- avg views ÷ 19,044 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 1,070
- 82 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.288%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 82
- of 82 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 60 of 82 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 82 (4 August 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 87,811 |
| Reactions total | 187 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 23:54 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- ≈6,790
- Videos
- ≈421
- Links
- ≈18,900
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
- Video runtime
- 12m 39s
- Average length
- 1m 16s
Measured directly from 10 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
187 reactions across 59 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 57.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 108 | 57.8% | |
| 👍 | 24 | 12.8% | |
| 😡 | 15 | 8.02% | |
| 😭 | 13 | 6.95% | |
| 🥴 | 12 | 6.42% | |
| 🙈 | 7 | 3.74% | |
| 👏 | 5 | 2.67% | |
| 💯 | 2 | 1.07% | |
| 👀 | 1 | 0.535% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 60 of the 82 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 187reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 82 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
News: #Pentagon acknowledges 153 civilian deaths in #Yemen, including #Ethiopian migrants killed in #US strike The US Pentagon has acknowledged that military operations in Yemen killed 153 civilians and injured another 243 during 2025, including casualties from a strike that killed and wounded Ethiopian migrants at a detention center in Sa’ada, according to a report submitted to Congress. Survivors at the time desc…
#Drought returns to devastate #Tigray’s #Abergelle_Yechila Watch
👍1
News: #Ethiopia asked by #South_Africa to share costs of deporting undocumented Ethiopian migrants South Africa has formally asked Ethiopia, #Nigeria and #Malawi to reimburse part of the R292 million (more than $18 million) it says it has spent this year deporting undocumented migrants. South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs disclosed the request during a briefing to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home…
🥴4
News: #Ethiopians make up overwhelming majority of migrants arriving in #Yemen amid worsening regional conditions Ethiopian nationals accounted for 91% of the 13,687 migrants who arrived in Yemen in July 2026, making them by far the largest group of migrants recorded entering the conflict-affected country during the month, according to the International Organization for Migration (#IOM). IOM’s Yemen Displacement Tr…
News: #Drought returns to devastate #Tigray’s #Abergelle_Yechila Among livestock that perished due to sever water and fodder shortages included hundreds of cattle, sheep and goats, according to residents who spoke to Addis Standard on conditions of anonymity. Those alive are showing signs “emaciation and exhaustion.” “Local officials have yet to make official appeal even though our livestock started to perish more …
😭3❤1
#Commentary: #Somaliland’s Unrewarded Success: From independence to democratic governance and right to re-recognition Somaliland’s case for international recognition is grounded in its historical experience, effective governance, democratic development, and strategic importance, writes Ahmed Abdullahi Duale. He explains that after gaining independence in 1960, Somaliland voluntarily entered into a union with #Somal…
👍1
#Sudan paramilitary forces attack border town, army alleges assault launched from #Ethiopia Watch
#Op_ed: Unraveling the political settlement that held #Ethiopia together In this op-ed, Ezekiel Gebissa and Taha Abdi argue that Ethiopia is approaching a dangerous political precipice as conflicts in #Oromia and #Amhara persist, while tensions threaten to reignite war in #Tigray. They contend that the ruling party is using the National Dialogue to advance a predetermined agenda aimed at "dismantling the 1991 polit…
❤2👍2
Six killed, ten wounded in new #Houthi attack on #Egyptian cargo ship in #Bab_al_Mandab Six people were killed and 10 wounded after #Yemen’s #Iran-aligned Houthi forces attacked the Egyptian-owned cargo ship Tihamah with ballistic missiles while it was transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Yemen’s government said. Three missiles struck the Tanzanian-flagged vessel on Tuesday, 11 August, killing four crew members, th…
❤1
News: #Sudan paramilitary forces attack border town, army alleges assault launched from #Ethiopia Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (#RSF) attacked the border town of Geissan in #Blue_Nile State on Tuesday, according to the RSF and local authorities, while a Sudanese army source told AFP that the assault was launched “from inside Ethiopian territory.” The fighting triggered a fresh displacement, with about …
😡1
#Hormuz shipping traffic falls to one-week low amid hostilities The tally of vessels tracked in the Strait of Hormuz fell to a one-week low of eight on Tuesday, shipping data showed, as owners avoided the key waterway amid continued hostilities in the #Middle_East. The #United_States and #Yemen's #Iran-aligned Houthis reported separate attacks as prospects appeared to dim for an end to the Iran war, with #Tehr…
Showing the 12 most recent of 82 posts we hold for @AddisstandardEng. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@AbiyAhmedAliofficial · 176,238
Telegram ranks this channel #64 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 12 August 2026
@fanatelevision · 202,563
Telegram ranks this channel #77 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 11 August 2026
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Addis Standard” (@AddisstandardEng), 19,044 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AddisstandardEng.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.