BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK Abubakar Shekau, the mercurial leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group, Boko Haram, today released a video in which he declares the areas under his sect’s control a Caliphate and shows scenes of carnage carried out by his fighters against unarmed civilians. The video, which is the most gruesome since Boko Haram started
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Ahram Online Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (Photo: Reuters) President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said he is ready to go to Ethiopia if the visit would be in Egypt’s best interests. He made his remark during a meeting with media figures and journalists Sunday, when asked about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. El-Sisi added that Egypt
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Aurorasistercities.org. The city of Aurora has partnered with its first sister city, Adama, Ethiopia, under a revived Aurora Sister Cities program. A delegation from Adama will visit Aurora, and other parts of Colorado, August 22 through 31. Aurora is Adama’s first U.S. sister city, providing a unique opportunity to create innovative and new programs both
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BBC By Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll With their sheer cliffs, surreal rock formations and vertical spires, northern Ethiopia’s Gheralta Mountains recall stretches of the southwestern United States’ red desert landscape. The primary difference: perched high and tucked away into these mountain cliffs are some of the country’s least visited rock-hewn Ethiopian Orthodox cave churches, some
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RUNNER’S WORLD Two veterans will work together to target 2:03:45 course record. By: Peter Gambaccini; Image by: PhotoRun Eliud Kipchoge (#807) upset Kenenisa Bekele (#423) in the 2003 World Championships 5000-meter final. The two will battle again at October’s Chicago Marathon. If Kenenisa Bekele, arguably the best distance runner in track and cross country history, achieves
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The Daily Beast By Brendon Hong HONG KONG — Sun Qiaoming is a trader from Jiangsu. He operates his import-export business on the Eastern coast of China, where there is plenty of space for a man with his drive and skills to prosper. Already fairly successful, he recently set his sights beyond his country’s borders. “There’s
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Phys.org By Kelly Izlar Scientists have released these tiny beetles in Ethiopia to fight a toxic, invasive weed.(Phys.org) —An invasive weed poses a serious and frightening threat to farming families in Ethiopia, but scientists from a Virginia Tech-led program have unleashed a new weapon in the fight against hunger: a tiny, speckled beetle. The weed,
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Aswat Masriya Cairo — Ministers of water resources of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan will resume on Monday tripartite talks over Ethiopia’s Renaissance dam after an eight-months hiatus. The negotiations will be held in the Sudanese capital, reported the Middle East News Agency (MENA). Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held talks with Ethiopia’s prime minister in
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RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN ARAB NEWS Police arrested a large number of illegal expatriates in the south of the capital in an early morning raid on Thursday under the direct supervision of Riyadh Gov. Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. According to one eyewitness, operations started immediately after dawn prayers. He said that more than
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By JENNY VAUGHAN Agence France-Presse ETHIOPIA, Jugol: People walk past the Fallana Gate on the northern part of the walled city Jugol in Ethiopia. The ancient wall and its five gates were initially built by an early king of Harar, Emir Nur ibn Mujahid, in order to keep outsiders from entering. AFP PHOTO / ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER
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