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Humanitarian aid hits record $22 bln in 2013. Ethiopia,Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan in the top 10 list of aid recipients

Thomson Reuters Foundation  Author: Megan Rowling LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Humanitarian aid rose to a record $22 billion in 2013, in response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and major conflict-related crises in Syria and Central African Republic – but more than a third of needs were still left unmet, new data showed on Tuesday.

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Police:Ethiopian Driverin Houston runs red light, kills 4 in crash

By MattAufdenspring Click2Houston.com June 23, 2014: A suspected drunk driver appeared in court after a fatal accident. Phil Archer reports. HOUSTON - Prosecutors say 31-year-old Million Zeghergis was legally intoxicated when he ran a red light and struck a car carrying elderly people on their way home from religious services. Four were pronounced dead at

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Aid donors announce investigation into tribal evictions in Ethiopia 

Survival International Bulldozers clearing Mursi land in Mago National Park, where communities are being evicted from their land to make way for sugar plantations. © E. Lafforgue/Survival Representatives of some of Ethiopia’s biggest aid donors have announced that they will send a team to the southwest of the country to investigate persistent reports of human

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More Thoughtful Approach To Building Dams on Abay (Blue Nile) – Part III 

By Getachew Begashaw (PhD)  Building the GERD In the first two partsof this series, we presented a focused analysis of the GERD, based on evidentiary information that is available in the public domain. We argued objectively and cogently that the social, economic, environmental and ecological adverse impacts of the GERD could be incalculable, and that the

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Meriam ‘freed’

BBC Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, a 27-year-old Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy Meriam Ibrahim gave birth to a baby daughter in prison A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal

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Meriam ‘freed’

BBC Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, a 27-year-old Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy Meriam Ibrahim gave birth to a baby daughter in prison A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal

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Ethiopian and Agence Française de Développement Sign €50 million Loan Agreement

Ethiopian Airlines Press Release Ethiopian Airlines and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a loan agreement of 50 million euros on 20 June 2014 at the Ethiopian Airlines Headquarters. The agreement is aimed at financing the construction of the new state-of- the art cargo terminal.  Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, and

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Ethiopian Airlines: African dream

Routes News Ethiopian is one of the oldest and most successful airlines operating on the African continent. Routes News lists five things you need to know about it. History maker Ethiopian Airlines was established in 1945 as a joint venture with TWA and the Ethiopian government. The airline originally started with five Douglas C-47 Skytrain

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No Country for Ethiopian Human Rights Abusers 

By Alemayehu G Mariam  The U.S. Justice Department encourages Ethiopians to report human-rights abusers hiding in plain view in America  They are hidden in plain view. They have been hiding in plain view in the U.S. for over 30 years. They have been hiding in plain view in the U.S. for just three years. They

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Israel strikes 9 military targets in Syria

RT FILE Photo. An Israeli F16C fighter jet (AFP Photo / Menahem Kahana) Nine Syrian military targets have been hit by Israeli jets and guided missiles, the IDF says, claiming it was a decisive response to a series of cross-border shootings to protect the citizens of Israel. The strikes on targets in Golan Heights were

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