Ethiopian Jewry commemorates the fallen of mass exodus to Israel

The Jerusalem Post By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI Ceremony held to commemorate estimated 4,000 Ethiopian Jews who died on their journey to Israel from Ethiopia through Sudan in the 1980s and 1990s. Ethiopian Jews Netanyahu attends ceremony for Ethiopian Jews who died en route to Israel Photo: GPO As Israelis flocked to the capital to celebrate Jerusalem

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Ethiopian woman sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan gives birth in prison

By Joshua Rhett Miller A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith has given birth in prison, and could now be lashed 100 times — even as she’s permitted to nurse her newborn for two years before the execution is carried out. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, gave birth to a

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Ethiopian maid saves employer’s drowning son in Saudi Arabia

Emirates247 An Ethiopian housemaid saved the life of her employer’s eight-year-old son after he nearly drowned in a swimming pool in the Gulf kingdom, prompting his father to reward her, a newspaper reported on Monday. The boy was with his parents at a public rest house in the capital Riyadh when he slipped and fell

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DC Africa Day to be Commemorated with Grants to 8 Organizations

DC Office on African Affairs Press release Mayor Vincent C. Gray (right) at the 2nd Annual DC to Africa Business Symposium. (Lateef Mangum) In honor of Africa Day – the annual May 25th celebration of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (now African Union), Mayor Vincent C. Gray and the Office of African

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Four suffer burns in ‘maid attack’  

MENAFN – Arab News - (MENAFN – Arab News) An ethiopian housemaid has been arrested for allegedly pouring boiling cooking oil on four members of a saudi family in the town of dawadmi in riyadh. the man and his wife suffered first-degree burns. the two children’s injuries are not serious local media reported on friday.

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SHOULD LANGUAGE DISQUALIFY MY OROMO IDENTITY?

Opride (OPride) — My grandfather Ayana Debosie Halo had a habit of making the entire family tune into his favorite radio station: The Voice of Oromo Liberation (better known by its Oromo acronym SBO). Began in late 1980s, SBO is a shortwave radio run by the Oromo Liberation Front, a political organization that struggles for

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Derg Kefelgn Alemu Worku Sentenced 22 Years for stealing another man’s identity

By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press Kefelgn Alemu Worku AP-A brutal Ethiopian jail guard who tortured and killed dozens of people during government-sponsored violence in the 1970s should spend 22 years in prison for immigration crimes, a federal judge ruled Friday, saying the United States cannot become a refuge for human-rights violators. “The risk that this

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Derg Kefelgn Alemu Worku Sentenced 22 Years for stealing another man’s identity

By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press Kefelgn Alemu Worku AP-A brutal Ethiopian jail guard who tortured and killed dozens of people during government-sponsored violence in the 1970s should spend 22 years in prison for immigration crimes, a federal judge ruled Friday, saying the United States cannot become a refuge for human-rights violators. “The risk that this

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Man accused of torture, killing in Ethiopia faces sentencing in US for immigration crimes

By SADIE GURMAN, The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man who authorities say masked his identity as a brutal guard at an Ethiopian prison faces sentencing for immigration fraud. Kefelgn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo WER’-koo) was convicted in October of identity theft and lying on immigration forms by denying he committed political violence. Witnesses

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Ethiopian school in Saudi Arabia holds Expo 2014

Arab News RIYADH: RODOLFO C. ESTIMO JR. ROARING SUCCESS: Aman Hussain Yusuf, EISR chairman, cuts the ceremonial ribbon. (AN photo) The Ethiopian International School in Riyadh (EISR) celebrated recently Expo 2014 as part of the school children’s activities this year. For the school children and teachers who supervised the preparations, it was a memorable event

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