Yemen seizes a boat carrying 42 Ethiopian refugees

AFP SANAA (AFP) – The Yemeni coast guard has seized a boat in the Gulf of Aden carrying 42 illegal migrants from Africa, the authorities said Tuesday. The coast guard intercepted the boat in Yemeni territorial waters, arresting three crew members and the owner of the vessel, which had come from the Horn of Africa.

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Ethiopia and Algeria assist NSA surveillance programme – report

Human IPO By Chris Udemans The Algerian and Ethiopian governments are helping the United States (US)-based National Security Agency (NSA) collect private data about Africans, according to a report. The Intercept reported the existence of an expanded NSA surveillance programme known as RAMPART-A, which depends on a growing number of third party governments to provide access

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IOM Ethiopia and Ministry of Foreign Affairs organize Diaspora Mapping Seminar

IOM The International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), is holding a five-day seminar on diaspora mapping in Addis Ababa. For this first-of-its-kind seminar, IOM has invited specialists on labour migration and development to deepen the knowledge and sharpen the skills of officials from MOFA in Ethiopia and

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IOM Ethiopia and Ministry of Foreign Affairs organize Diaspora Mapping Seminar

IOM The International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), is holding a five-day seminar on diaspora mapping in Addis Ababa. For this first-of-its-kind seminar, IOM has invited specialists on labour migration and development to deepen the knowledge and sharpen the skills of officials from MOFA in Ethiopia and

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Meriam Ibrahim: My baby is disabled because I gave birth with my legs chained

Telegraph By Harriet Alexander Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy, says that giving birth in prison, with her legs in chains, has left her baby disabled Meriam Ibrahim was released from prison on June 23 – only to be detained once again while attempting to leave Sudan for the US Photo: AP

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KUWAIT SCAPEGOATS, CRIMINALIZES ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS

MIGRANT RIGHTS Kuwait’s low-income migrants endure daily discrimination but local media and authorities tend to particularly criminalize Ethiopian domestic workers. The March 2014 murder of a Kuwaiti woman by an Ethiopian domestic worker most recently inflamed rhetoric against Ethiopian migrants and incited national panic against domestic workers; state officials and local media fueled racist hysteria in

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Christian Sudanese Woman and Her Family in Protection of U.S. Embassy

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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17 members of an international drug ring busted for bringing Khat into America

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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Ethiopian store owner in Maryland knocks out thief with fire extinguisher

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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Ethiopian store owner in Maryland knocks out thief with fire extinguisher

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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