Oregon live By Ian K. Kullgren | ikullgren@oregonian.com The four Ethiopian runners who disappeared from the IAAF Junior World Championships in Eugene this past weekend defected from their home country to avoid returning to widespread civil unrest there, police confirmed in a report released late Friday. The report, provided by police in Federal Way, Washington,
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Reuters By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will announce nearly $1 billion in business deals, increase funding for peacekeeping and commit billions of dollars to expanding food and power programs in Africa during a summit this week, U.S. and development officials say. U.S. officials said the Aug. 4 to 6 summit in
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Professor John Ashton accuses pharmaceutical industry of ‘moral bankruptcy’ Doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières treat a patient suspected to have the Ebola virus in 2007 in Congo By JANE MERRICK The Independent Britain’s leading public health doctor today blames the failure to find a vaccine against the Ebola virus on the “moral bankruptcy” of the
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ENA The United Kingdom extended on Friday a grant amounting to 17 million Pounds sterling to address constraints related to tax, audit and transparency both at federal and regional levels in Ethiopia. Finance and Economic Development State Minister Ahmed Shide and Julius Court, Head of Office of Department for International Development signed the Memorandum of
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By Tim Mansel BBC News, Sierra Leone Information poster about Ebola As West African nations try to stop the deadly Ebola virus from spreading, people living in the affected countries are nervous. In Sierra Leone, communities are keeping a close eye on the exact locations where the disease has emerged. The posters are crudely drawn
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By BETHAN McKERNAN Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The numbers at the St. George Armenian Apostolic Church in Addis Ababa are not adding up. Church records show an average of two funerals a year, but a wedding only every three years and a baptism every five. “Some people don’t come to church vertically. Only horizontally,”
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By Daniel Teferra (PhD) There is a familiar argument that in the early stages of economic development, African countries do not need democracy. They just need command growth. Democracy will naturally follow. Southeast Asian countries, such as, South Korea are given as examples. However, command growth cannot lend itself to democracy because the two are
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Arab News In this November 9, 2013 file photo shows members of Saudi security forces detain Ethiopian workers during a riot in Manfouha, southern Riyadh. (Reuters) RIYADH: Around 70 Ethiopians escaped from a detention center in Riyadh. “We have arrested 25 of them and the security authorities are in hot pursuit of the remaining detainees,”
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Arab News In this November 9, 2013 file photo shows members of Saudi security forces detain Ethiopian workers during a riot in Manfouha, southern Riyadh. (Reuters) RIYADH: Around 70 Ethiopians escaped from a detention center in Riyadh. “We have arrested 25 of them and the security authorities are in hot pursuit of the remaining detainees,”
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The Guardian By Maaza Mengiste A single photo focused the world’s attention on Sudan in 93. As Gaza and MH17 dominate, Africa’s horrors remain invisible Kevin Carter’s photograph, taken during the 1993 famine in Sudan. ‘The outcry from the public was immediate and visceral.’ Photograph: Megan Patricia Carter Trust/Kevin Carter/Corbis Sygma In the photograph a
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