Ethiopia seeks UNFPA’s support in empowering women, youths

Punchng BY NAN The Ethiopian Government has sought the support of the United Nations Population Fund to sustain efforts to empower women and youths, an official said in Addis Ababa. This is according to a statement issued by the Ethiopian Government and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Addis Ababa.

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Egypt to deport 77 Ethiopians for attempting to sneak into Israel

Egypt Independent Seventy-seven Ethiopians arrived on Saturday at Cairo International Airport on their way to being deported back to their country. They entered Egypt’s Aswan governorate via Sudan and were attempting to sneak into Israel. Security sources at the airport said the deportees include three children. Interrogations proved that they were seeking arrival at Sinai

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Ethiopian Airlines to decide on $3 bln plane order by June end

Reuters Ethiopian Airlines will decide in June on whether to place an order for 30 narrow-body Airbus or Boeing jets as part of fleet its expansion plans, the company’s chief executive said on Sunday. “We will make a decision by the end of June,” Tewolde Gebremariam told Reuters on the sidelines of the annual meeting

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Is there Light at the end of the tunnel for the “Dark Continent”?

By Alemayehu G. Mariam (Author’s note: This commentary appeared on  Pambazuka.org  on May 29, 2014 as part of a mid-century outlook on possible scenarios in Africa. I make my “predictions” debating myself as a political scientist and a defense lawyer.) Is there light at the end of the tunnel for the “Dark Continent”? “Making predictions

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Yemeni People Traffickers Prey on Ethiopia Migrants Seeking Work

By William Davison Bloomberg Ethiopian immigrants wait near Obok, north of Djibouti’s capital, for smugglers’ boats to cross the Gulf of Aden into Yemen. Numbers traveling across the Gulf of Aden have risen this year even after Saudi Arabia, the intended destination for many, began mass deportations of unregistered employees. Photographer: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty

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Egypt’s minister of electricity heads to Ethiopia for ministerial conference

Ahram Online Egypt’s minister of electricity and renewable energy, Mohamed Shaker, headed to Ethiopia Sunday to participate in the US-Africa Energy Conference aimed at developing energy plans in Africa, reported the state-owned MENA news agency. The US-Africa Energy Conference comes as a step in implementing US President Barack Obama’s energy initiative, “Power Africa,” which aims

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Ethiopian Woman Beaten, Raped, Threatened By An Egyptian

Arab Times A25-year old Ethiopian woman filed a case at Abu Halifa Police Station against an Egyptian expatriate who attacked and raped her, and threatened to kill her if she reported to the police, reports Al-Seyassah daily. According to security sources, the Egyptian expatriate forced the victim into his flat, after which he beat her

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Love on the rocks of the limits of guilt

By Teshome Abebe (PhD) Dr Teshome Abebe In an article which appeared on the Economist, Cutting through the nonsense, the author presented arguments and counter arguments regarding the continuing (but losing steam) debate regarding reparations to Black Americans whose ancestors were slaves. Economists debate such ideas not only from the point of view of costs

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Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan ‘to free’ death row woman

BBC Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag pictured on her wedding day with her husband Daniel Wani Meriam Ibrahim has been sentenced to 100 lashes as well as death by hanging Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for having abandoned the Islamic faith, a foreign ministry official says. Meriam Ibrahim, who

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