By Matt O’Brien mattobrien@bayareanewsgroup.com Local Ethiopian-Americans attend a mass during the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s 39th Holy Synod meeting at the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Mekane Selam Medhane Alem Cathedral in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, May 16, 2014. Bishops and priests from the U.S. and abroad gathered in Oakland last week to resolve internal differences within the
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By Paul Schwartz, NYPost Nat Berhe born from Eritrean father *”Ethiopia, Eritrea, it’s all the same, just different name.” Nate Berhe You may or may not be able to tell a man by his tweets, but in Nat Berhe’s case, two he shot off right after he was taken by the Giants in the fifth
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By APO Press Releases GENEVA, Switzerland, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Ethiopian community in Finland has donated over EUR 7,700 towards IOM’s relief efforts to help destitute Ethiopians expelled from Saudi Arabia. The donation from the Finnish Ethiopian community follows similar initiatives by US-based Ethiopian associations and individuals who have also offered
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Kimberly M. Brown for Equality Now – WNN Justice commentary Ethiopian migrant woman in Sudan suffer injustice through marginalization, denial of court procedures and police protection. Image: Albert-González-Farran/UNphoto (WNN/EN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Last August, while house hunting in Omdurman, Sudan, a 19-year-old pregnant and divorced Ethiopian woman was lured to an empty property and
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BY Victoria Fleischer PBS News Hour Dinaw Mengestu talks about his new novel “All Our Names,” which narrates the story of a young black man who comes of age in post-colonial Africa and the young white woman who meets and falls in love with him in a small Midwest American town. Mengestu spoke to chief
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The Black Lions Organization With misleading information constantly conveyed to the public through mainstream media, many individuals have adopted a misconstrued perception of what Africa (namely, Ethiopia) truly is like. Meraf Berhanu, a young Ethiopian American from Dallas, Texas, took it upon herself to capture the true essence of Ethiopian life and culture by traveling
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BUAPP Liyou Libsekal Liyou Libsekal, an Ethiopian poet who lives in Addis Ababa, has won the 2014 Brunel University African Poetry Prize (BUAPP). The judges, including prize founder and Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel Dr Bernardine Evaristo, praised Liyou’s poetry for its accomplished modulation between the concrete and the abstract; her impressive use of
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Global Voices Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle Join Nigerian bloggers Blossom Nnodim (@blcompere) and Nwachukwu Egbunike (@feathersproject), along with Global Voices editor Ndesanjo Macha (@ndesanjo) from Tanzania for an Africa-wide tweetathon in support of the nine bloggers and journalists arrested in late April and currently being detained in Ethiopia. The Global Voices community and our network of friends
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Swiss info Switzerland refuses to extradite Haile Medhin Abera, the Ethiopian Co-Pilot who hijacked his plane His asylum application will normally be assessed at the end of the prison sentence. Translated and edited from the original article in French on the…
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Abebe Gellaw interrupted President Obama during the end of a speech to the Democratic National Committee in San Jose, California on Thursday night. (May 8)
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