Politico By MIKE ALLEN Bill Clinton will moderate the opening session of the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, which Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Commerce Department are co-sponsoring in Washington on Aug. 5 — the middle day of a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Barack Obama. The summit is expected to draw more than 40 African heads
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Houston Chronicle As they ready for two days of wheeling and dealing with a high-ranking Ethiopian delegation at a local hotel, Houston business and elected leaders today need to look beyond a foreign market opportunity and first ask hard questions about Ethiopia’s recent crackdown on nine journalists, as well as the country’s unsuccessful move this
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BBC Meriam Ibrahim The Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi met the plane to welcome Meriam Ibrahim A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has flown to Italy after more than a month in the US embassy in Khartoum. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag and her family were met in Rome by
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Addis Voice By Abebe Gellaw (AV) Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn faced a stinging humiliation as Azusa Pacific University (APU), whose motto is “God First”, has withdrawn an honor it had already bestowed on him. The university administration had to reverse its decision to honor Mr. Desalegn in light of gross human rights violations in
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USIP hosted a conversation with Ambassadors Carson, Lyman, and Moose on U.S.-Africa Engagement on July 22, 2014.
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By DeAnn Smith, Police search for clues after body found in KCI fountain KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - An investigation has been launched after a woman’s body was found in a fountain at Kansas City International Airport. Kansas City police identified the woman as 21-year-old Husenet M. Yassin. The body was found about 3:10 p.m.
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Xinhua, Mo Hong’e An Ethiopian was sentenced to seven months in jail for trafficking khat to China, marking the first such case in the country, which classed the plant as an illegal drug this year. The verdict was handed down earlier this month by the Intermediate People’s Court of Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang
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The Guardian The immigration minister has issued a permanent protection visa to an unaccompanied minor who fled Ethiopia and arrived in Australia by boat, in a major backflip that could have ramifications for other asylum seekers in Australia. Since the Coalition government came to power in September, Scott Morrison has aggressively stated it would not
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Standardmedia Police on Saturday night arrested ten Ethiopian immigrants at a farm in Ruiru following a tip-off from the public. The foreigners were arrested in Gikumari village as they were being dropped in a Probox, ready to board an awaiting lorry. Ruiru Deputy OCPD Mr Birgen Kiptoo said they conducted the swoop after a tip-off
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By Beyene, B.M.* In 2011, the Ethiopian government announced its plan to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. Acknowledging the difficulty to get funding from foreign sources (mainly due to Egypt’s campaign against any project on the Nile in the upstream countries), the government made it clear from the onset
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