By Ariel Zirulnick The Christian Science Monitor BAHIR DAR, ETHIOPIA- As other fishermen haul in their catch a little after dawn, Temasgen Zelalem is just beginning to drop his net. Looking weary in the faint morning light, Mr. Temasgen says it’s his second drop in the last 24 hours. The nets he laid out last
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By Aidan O’Donnell BBC News Ethiopia’s historic city of Harar is one of Islam’s holiest centres – but in recent times it has built up another tradition and is now also known for its brewery. As holy cities go, Harar is a colourful one. Inside the walls of the old town I find buildings in
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Geeska Afrika Addis Ababa (HAN)-Regional Africa security and partnership update: by. Ofer Petersburg, the opening ceremony for the 23rd African Union Summit in Malabo was to begin Thursday with a declaration of support for the three kidnapped Israeli teens by a number of participants, until bad blood brought tensions to a boil. Scheduled declaration of support from
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Middle East Eye Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir met with Egypt’s Sisi, who sparked outcry after reports that he said he ‘considers Sudan part of Egypt’ President Sisi shakes Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir by the hand at Khartoum Airport (AFP) MEE and agencies Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took a brief stopover in Sudan on Friday on his way
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The Guardian Land grabbing in Africa and Asia for export and biofuel crops is keeping populations malnourished and hungry By Damian Carrington A worker at Saudi Star Rice Farm in Gambella, Ethiopia. Rights groups accuse the government of forcing people off their land to make way for foreign investors. Photograph: Jenny Vaughan/AFP/Getty Images The land
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BBC Isaias Afewerki has been Eritrea’s president since 1993 The UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) has set up a commission of inquiry into Eritrea, seen as one of the world’s most repressive states. The three-member panel will report back in one year. In a statement, the HRC condemned “widespread and systematic” human rights violations, including
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The New York Times By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSH KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Christian Sudanese woman who was detained at the airport in Khartoum with her family by Sudanese authorities after an appeals court overturned her conviction and death sentence for abandoning Islam and ordered her set free is now in the protection of the United States Embassy here, her lawyer
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Ahram Online The Egyptian foreign minister along with his Ethiopian counterpart stressed that Ethiopia will understand the importance of the Nile River to Egypt and that Egypt will understand the Ethiopian need for development Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as they arrive to attend the 23rd African Union
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New York Daily News BY Oren Yaniv The drug ring smuggled the drug from Yemen, Ethiopia, and Kenya into New York and beyond, according to a 215-count indictment unsealed Friday in Brooklyn by the state’s Attorney General. 17 members of an international drug ring were busted for smuggling tons of Khat into America, authorities announced
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FOX44.com Kevin Lewis-WJLA SILVER SPRING, MD (WJLA/CNN)-A Maryland liquor store owner says a would-be robber went too far when he threatened to kill her young son. So she went after him with a fire extinguisher! Surveillance video caught the take down. Dressed to match the night sky, police say 20-year-old Michael Kemp walked through the
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