Almaz Ayana won the 5,000-meter final on Sunday in a world championship record 14 minutes, 26.83 seconds, leading an Ethiopian sweep of the medals. With four laps to go, Ayana made a move and started to lift the pace, leaving Genzebe Dibaba behind. With two laps to go, she led by 50 meters. Dibaba, who
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CAIRO: Egypt has deported 45 Ethiopians who arrived in Cairo after fleeing the war-torn Libya, Youm7 reported Thursday. The Ethiopians reportedly arrived on board of a private plane coming from Tobruk airport after coordination with Egyptian authorities. Egyptian officials and diplomats from the Ethiopian embassy in Cairo received the Ethiopian returnees, who headed to Addis
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(KHARTOUM) – The Saudi government was concerned that the case of 35 Ethiopians detained by authorities would be viewed as one that is religiously motivated, a cable from the Saudi foreign ministry reveals. The cable published by the whistleblower site Wikileaks on Friday stated that the Saudi Crown Prince at the time Prince Nayef Bin
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By Sonia Farid | Special to Al Arabiya News Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was at Cairo International Airport to welcome 27 Ethiopians who were abducted by militants in Libya and freed by Egyptian authorities. In a press conference at the airport in the presence of the Ethiopian ambassador to Cairo, Sisi said Ethiopians were
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Aljazeera America By Michael Pizzi Tens of thousands of East African refugees and asylum-seekers are at risk of being left behind in Yemen’s roiling violence, deprived not only of safe options for evacuation but also of a home country that might take them in, activists and U.N. officials said this week. Since pitched fighting between
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Committee expected to recommend a restriction of between one and five years on male gay sex. Health Ministry to ease blood donation restrictions on gay men, Ethiopians A Health Ministry committee is expected to recommend soon that gay men be allowed to donate blood – with limited restrictions. The ministry has been prohibited from accepting
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The Christian Science Monitor By Alex Dick-Godfrey April 1, 2014 A version of this post appeared on Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author’s own. In a recent article on the Daily Maverick, Simon Allison identifies the “surprisingly perceptive” core message of Al…
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SBS Radio Former Ethiopian President Girma W/Giorgis on SBS radio says: ” Now Assab is in the hands of Eritreans, but it shouldn’t be like that because Assab belongs to the Afar and Afars are Ethiopians. . . Afars can’t…
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