KomoNews LAKE FOREST PARK, Wash. — Police say an angry ex-boyfriend barged into his former girlfriend’s Lake Forest Park apartment on Tuesday and viciously beat the woman and her two roommates. The violent incident happened Tuesday before 7:30 a.m. at a home in the 2600 block of Northeast 195th Street. The residents told police three
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Thomson Reuters By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament approved a 178.6 billion-birr ($9.2 billion) budget for 2014-2015 on Monday, a 15 percent rise from the previous year that will boost spending on education, health and road building. Strong state intervention has boosted the economy over the past decade and economic growth is
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Thomson Reuters By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament approved a 178.6 billion-birr ($9.2 billion) budget for 2014-2015 on Monday, a 15 percent rise from the previous year that will boost spending on education, health and road building. Strong state intervention has boosted the economy over the past decade and economic growth is
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CPJ By Rachael Levy/CPJ Google Journalism Fellow In April, the Ethiopian governmentimprisoned nine journalists, including six bloggers from Zone 9, in one of the worst crackdowns against free expression in the country. Ethiopia is the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, trailing only Eritrea, according to CPJ research. Ethiopian government officials accuse the Zone 9 bloggers
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CPJ By Rachael Levy/CPJ Google Journalism Fellow In April, the Ethiopian governmentimprisoned nine journalists, including six bloggers from Zone 9, in one of the worst crackdowns against free expression in the country. Ethiopia is the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, trailing only Eritrea, according to CPJ research. Ethiopian government officials accuse the Zone 9 bloggers
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The Daily Star Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Monday that Egypt has shown a major shift of stance toward its controversial multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam being built on the upper reaches of the Nile. “Ethiopia welcomes the recent shift in stance demonstrated by the new egyptian leadership,” Desalegn told the parliament, hinting at a new chapter
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The Daily Star Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Monday that Egypt has shown a major shift of stance toward its controversial multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam being built on the upper reaches of the Nile. “Ethiopia welcomes the recent shift in stance demonstrated by the new egyptian leadership,” Desalegn told the parliament, hinting at a new chapter
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By Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda — Human Rights Watch says an exiled Ethiopian opposition leader who was recently deported from Yemen to Ethiopia is at risk of abuses including torture. In a statement Monday, the rights group urged Ethiopia’s government to ensure the safety of Andargachew Tsige, the secretary-general of a banned Ethiopian opposition group
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam According to the latest Failed States Index, 6 out of the top 10 and 18 out of the top 25 “most failed states on earth” are found in Africa. This commentary is not about beating the dead hyena of the failed African “state”. Nor is it about the failure of statecraft in much
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: E.G. Woldegebriel Ethiopian farmers collect wheat in their field in Abay, north of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Oct. 21, 2009. REUTERS/Barry Malone EJERE WOREDA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thirty years after the famine that killed more than a million people in Ethiopia and shocked the world into belated action, the country’s
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