Robel Phillipos, center, leaving court with Derege Demissie, left, a defense lawyer, in Boston on Tuesday.STEPHAN SAVOIA / ASSOCIATED PRESS By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, The New York Times A friend of the man accused of detonating two pressure-cooker bombs at last year’s Boston Marathon was convicted on Tuesday by a federal jury in Boston of lying
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BY KNA The Ethiopians aliens at Wajir law courts facing charges of being in the country unlawfully. Photo/KNA The Ethiopians aliens at Wajir law courts facing charges of being in the country unlawfully. Photo/KNA More than eighteen Ethiopian aliens were over the weekend arrested in Wajir county for being in the county unlawfully. The aliens
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By William Davison, Bloomberg Ethiopia’s government illegally detained at least 5,000 members of the country’s most populous ethnic group, the Oromo, over the past four years as it seeks to crush political dissent, Amnesty International said. Victims include politicians, students, singers and civil servants, sometimes only for wearing Oromo traditional dress, or for holding influential
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By William Davison, Bloomberg Ethiopia’s government illegally detained at least 5,000 members of the country’s most populous ethnic group, the Oromo, over the past four years as it seeks to crush political dissent, Amnesty International said. Victims include politicians, students, singers and civil servants, sometimes only for wearing Oromo traditional dress, or for holding influential
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Tadelech Yohanis, 30, was last seen at around 2 p.m. last Thursday. at Sacred Heart Convent on the Lower East Side. Yohanis arrived in the U.S. Oct. 6 and was set to leave Sunday, Oct. 26. On the 23rd, Yohanis left the convent with her passport and hasn’t returned, police said. Yohanis is “in good
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By Aragaw Addis Ababa ( Agencies + DIPLOMAT.SO) – The Voice of America (VOA) Amharic Service, on its October 21 special program, reports the killing of over 540 people, mostly from the Amhara ethnic group, in a conflict with the Mezenger people in the Gambella region of Western Ethiopia. The gruesome massacre that started in
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By Daniel P George, Times of India CHENNAI: High drama prevailed at the Chennai airport on Monday morning when bodies of the five Tamil Nadu men killed in a blast at a sugar factory in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa arrived. The relatives of the deceased refused to accept the bodies unless the state
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(CPJ)- Nairobi, October 27, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s sentencing of Ethiopian journalist Temesghen Desalegn to three years’ imprisonment on charges of defamation and incitement that date back to 2012. A court in Addis Ababa, the capital, convicted Temesgen on October 13 in connection with opinion pieces published in the now-defunct Feteh news
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PRESS RELEASE UN Secretary-General, WBG and IsDBG Presidents, and other Agency Heads Visit Region to Link Peace Efforts with Economic Progress Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 27, 2014—Leaders of global and regional institutions today begin an historic trip to the Horn of Africa to pledge political support and major new financial assistance for countries in the
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By Matt Petronzio Time is dwindling to meet the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations’ blueprint to tackle an array of large-scale global problems by a target date of 2015. One of those goals, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, has seen progress, but there’s still work to be done. According to the International Food Policy
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