According to a UNHCR report last July, there are a total of 629,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Ethiopia. World Bulletin/News Desk Over 6,200 Eritreans have crossed into Ethiopia over the past 37 days, an official with the UN refugee agency said Monday. “More than 5,000 Eritrean asylum seekers crossed into the Ethiopian territory in
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BBC on Andargachew Tsige: http://youtu.be/Y0ipj7Qv_9s The family of a north London man who is facing the death penalty in Ethiopia has said the government should be doing more to help get him home.
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By Dawit Ashenafi The Voice of America has removed Peter Heinlein as Chief of the Horn of Africa service after investigation into allegations of deliberate distortions and professional misconduct. VOA Director David Ensor convened the section staffers last Friday and made a surprise announcement that Heinlein was replaced by his Senior Advisor William Marsh. The
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Martin Salia, a Sierra Leonean doctor sick with Ebola, is pictured in this handout photo taken February 2013 Dr Salia, seen here in 2013, had been working in Freetown in Sierra Leone A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospital announced. Martin Salia, who
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By Alemayehu G Mariam ሜሮን ጌትነት ሃገሬ Meron Getnet Hagere: http://youtu.be/4ojRIPrO_Aw Meron Getnet The poet-artist with an “unconquerable soul”? Last week, Meron Getnet, the extraordinary young Ethiopian actress, put out on Youtube a powerful Amharic poem entitled, “Hagere, Hizbe, Kibre” (My Country, My People, My Honor). The last time I “saw” Meron was this past
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All 150,000 hens at the farm in Hekendorp are to be killed The European Commission is discussing protective measures to contain a “highly contagious” strain of bird flu discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands. The measures will include killing all contaminated animals and the cleaning of their holding areas. The Dutch government said
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Ethiopia has not been a good example over the decades despite priding itself of not having been colonised. DEVELOP ME WITH TAPIWA GOMO There are number of reasons why the world may not have fairly judged Ethiopia, some of which include the 1984 drought, the incompatibility of their governance to those of the generally acceptable
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Members of the South Sudan rebel delegation attend peace negotiations in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa. ‘South Sudan on bitter road to peace’ ‘US after toppling president of Sudan’ Representatives of South Sudan’s warring parties are in Ethiopia for talks aimed at putting an end to the civil war that has been going on
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–For Immediate Release— Contacts: Anuradha Mittal, The Oakland Institute amittal@oaklandinstitute.org, +1-510-469-5228 Nyikaw Ochalla, Anywaa Survival Organization ochalla@hotmail.com, +44 (0)7939389796 Ethnic Conflict Engineered by Ethiopia’s Plantation Schemes Access the Full Report Access the Photo Gallery Oakland, CA – Today, the Oakland Institute (OI), in collaboration with the Anywaa Survival Organisation (ASO), released Engineering
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A four-day Bible study extravaganza marking the 20th anniversary of one pastor’s arrival in Kenya has attracted thousands this weekend. Kenya has become a bridgehead for Korean missions to Africa. By Ariel Zirulnick, The Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Kenyans join in a mass bible study held in Nairobi’s Nyayo Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.
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