Al-Shabab has said it will target government officials Some 20 people, including senior officials, have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the Somali capital, witnesses have told the BBC. The Central Hotel, often frequented by politicians, was hit by a car bomb and a suicide attack. Gunmen then stormed the hotel mosque
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Marthe van der Wolf, VOA Two optical telescopes are the latest means through which Ethiopia aims to use space technology to further the country’s development. The observatory is fully functional, and soon it will be fully operated by Ethiopia’s own engineers. Astrophysicist David Buckley and other scientists have been in Ethiopia for weeks to test
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ELEVEN Ethiopia nationals arrested on Monday for being in Kenya illegally have been fined Sh10,000 each or three-month jail terms. The 11 yesterday pleaded guilty to the charges before chief magistrate Steven Riech and asked the court to forgive them. They were heading to South Africa when police arrested them at Mrima, Likoni subcounty, after
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By Oscar Rickett Andargachew Tsege, known to his friends and family as Andy, is a British citizen who has been held in a secret prison in Ethiopia since June. The government of the East African country has used its stringent anti-terrorism laws, adapted from British and American ones, to charge Tsege with plotting a coup
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Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19). Dibaba took more than five seconds off the previous mark of 14:24:37 set by her compatriot Meseret Defar on the same track
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Nigeria leads the list followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Madagascar. Study ranks Kenyans among poorest in Africa By JOSEPH MURAYA NAIROBI, Kenya – A new report by the Institute for Security Studies has ranked Kenya sixth among 10 countries in Africa with the largest extremely poor population. The situation in
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA – Sudanese president, Omer Hassan al-Bashir, on Wednesday vowed to further strengthen bilateral ties, especially economic ties with neighbouring Ethiopia. Bashir made the remarks this morning while delivering solidarity message at the celebrations held at Ethiopia’s northern city of Mekele to mark the 40th anniversary of the Tigray People’s Liberation
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Mainstream rappers embrace the country’s dominant language while trying not to upset the government By James Jeffrey ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian rapper DJ Same took out a smartphone and played a clip of a man proclaiming passionately in a traditional Amharic style called fukera, used during feudal militaristic times to rouse the populace to
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Medical Press In a remarkable new advance against the virus that causes AIDS, scientists from the Jupiter, Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have announced the creation of a novel drug candidate that is so potent and universally effective, it might work as part of an unconventional vaccine. The research, which involved scientists
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The Israeli government has admitted to forcing female Ethiopian Jewish migrants into having contraceptive injections without their knowledge or consent. The women were deceived and told that the Depo-Provera injections were vaccinations and that unless they had them, they would be refused entry to Israel.
When Israel’s Ethiopian community became suspicious of a dramatic decline in birth rates, investigations began to determine why. The Israeli government denied any wrongdoing but the health ministry has ordered a complete halt to all gynaecologists administering the drugs.
According to a report in the Atlanta Black Star, the Israeli government deliberately and knowling injected Ethiopian women who were migrating to Israel – the women were told that it was a vaccination, and without it, they would be barred from entering Israel.
Many have called the practice appallingly racist.
Investigations showed that the injections were responsible for a 50% in the birth rate of the the Ethiopian community. Conspiracy theories had long been circulating about forced sterilization however the Israeli Health Ministry stepped in after a documentary aired last month on the Israel’s Educational Network.
Health Ministry Director General Ron Gamzu sent out a letter to all Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO’s) instructing them “not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment,” the news site Haaretz reported Sunday.
According to Haaretz, the documentary chronicled 35 Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel eight years ago and said they were told they would not be allowed to move to Israel unless they agreed to the Depo-Provera shots.
“We said we won’t have the shot,” recounted one of the women, according to Haaretz. “They told us, if you don’t you won’t go to Israel. And also you won’t be allowed into (an assistance program), you won’t get aid or medical care. We were afraid … We didn’t have a choice. Without them and their aid we couldn’t leave (Ethiopia). So we accepted the injection. It was only with their permission that we were allowed to leave.”
Gal Gabbay,a local investigative journalist , showed in a report by a local investigative journalist, , showed that women in a transit camp in Ethiopia awaiting emigration were told they would have to get the shots in order to come to Israel. According to the Los Angeles Times, the possible side effects of the drug include a decrease in bone density that puts women at increased risk for osteoporosis and fracture. In addition, returning to fertility can be a lengthy process and withdrawal symptoms can be acute.
Ethiopian Jews have faced widespread discrimination and isolation since being moved to Israel in the 1980s. Some were forced to live in transit camps or absorption centers to “adjust to society.” They face widespread discrimination in the job market and the educational system.
Hevda Eyal, author of the report “By Women to Women,” told the National that the birth control shots were about “reducing the number of births in a community that is black and mostly poor.”