An Atlanta man who previously ran an adoption agency pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to his role in a scheme involving children from Ethiopia, the U.S. Department of Justice said. James Harding, 55, admitted that between 2008 and 2009, he and his co-conspirators submitted fraudulent documents to the State Department to facilitate adoptions of
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By Sandra Dindi One of the best international writers of African decent, Dinaw Mengetsu, has been nominated for the prestigious Folio prize in 2015. The accomplished Ethiopian-American author was nominated last month alongside other favorite African writers-Damon Galgut and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. The £40,000 literature prize was initiated in 2014 to recognize accomplished literature writers
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The National By Naser Al Wasmi ABU DHABI // A church is more than just a place of worship for Ethiopians living in the UAE – it is where immigrants can go for community bonding, a social life and even work. Asamenew Abera, an Ethiopian who came to the country seven months ago on a
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By Yilma Bekele Andargachew Tsige was taken prisoner by the TPLF Woyane regime on June 24/’13 while on transit at Sana, Yemen International Airport. He was removed from the airplane and flown to Ethiopia. What was done was against all international conventions and is considered illegal. Ever since then he has been held in secret
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By Lexi Belculfine / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Allegheny County district attorney’s office doesn’t want a woman who admitted abusing two adopted children from Ethiopia released on home confinement and electronic monitoring. Kristen Barbour, 32, of Franklin Park, pleaded no contest in June to two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and was sentenced
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By Lexi Belculfine / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Allegheny County district attorney’s office doesn’t want a woman who admitted abusing two adopted children from Ethiopia released on home confinement and electronic monitoring. Kristen Barbour, 32, of Franklin Park, pleaded no contest in June to two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and was sentenced
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Saudi’s Ministry of Labor said today that it has not yet finished a review of regulations streamlining the resumption of Ethiopian workers to enter the Saudi labor market. Undersecretary of the Ministry for International Labor Affairs Dr. Ahmed Al-Fihaid said following a meeting between the Minister of Labor Adel Faqih and visiting Speaker of Ethiopia’s
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OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude and, less frequently, prostitution within
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Police were acting on complaint that apartment in Al Qasimiya area of Sharjah housed a number of illegal residents Two women jumped off a balcony on the first level of an apartment complex on Tuesday morning in their desperation to avoid arrest, an official at Sharjah Police told Gulf News. The two women, identified as
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Police were acting on complaint that apartment in Al Qasimiya area of Sharjah housed a number of illegal residents Two women jumped off a balcony on the first level of an apartment complex on Tuesday morning in their desperation to avoid arrest, an official at Sharjah Police told Gulf News. The two women, identified as
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