My Takes on the Ethiopian Dam and the Addis Ababa Master Plan: Messay Kebede

By Messay Kebede The issue of the so-called “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam” has proven very tricky for all those Ethiopians who oppose the present regime. On the one hand, no Ethiopian wants to see Ethiopia’s right to use the waters of

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Killings in Ethiopia outrage Minnesota’s Oromo community

MinnPost By Ibrahim Hirsi  Members of Minnesota’s Oromo community plan to rally Friday in St. Paul and are calling for a hunger strike to mourn the deaths of student demonstrators gunned down last week by Ethiopian security forces in Addis Ababa.

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5 Young Ethiopian Filmmakers Selected For Emerging Talent Initiatives At Cannes & Monaco

IndiWire I recall when we first reported on this initiative, in 2012. Three filmmakers were selected that inaugural year: Henok Mebratu, Olisarali Olibui Tongolu and Yidnekachew Shumete, whose feature film Nishan, screened Stateside at both the Pan African Film Festival

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5 Young Ethiopian Filmmakers Selected For Emerging Talent Initiatives At Cannes & Monaco

IndiWire I recall when we first reported on this initiative, in 2012. Three filmmakers were selected that inaugural year: Henok Mebratu, Olisarali Olibui Tongolu and Yidnekachew Shumete, whose feature film Nishan, screened Stateside at both the Pan African Film Festival

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Swiss reject Ethiopia’s request to extradite co-pilot 

VOA May 6, 2014 Hailemedhin Abera GENEVA, Switzerland – The Swiss government has rejected Ethiopia’s request to extradite a co-pilot who had hijacked an airliner last February. Hailemedhin Abera, 30, hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane that was on an

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Ban on Ethiopian workers still in place

RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI Arab News The Ministry of Labor said Sunday that the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian workers will remain in place, while the two countries continue to exert efforts to resolve differences that hamper plans to forge

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Ethiopian woman killed in Atlanta by her Nigerian boyfriend

Admass Radio Atlanta It happens last night, May 2 in the place she live with. An Ethiopian girl , Betty Sinshaw died of a gun shot by her room mate and apparently, her Boy Friend – A Nigerian man. The

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Scientist Dereje Agonafer receives award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

UTA Dereje Agonafer is the recipient of the 2014 iTherm Achievement Award, awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at the Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems. Sponsored by the IEEE’s CPMT Society,

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Out of Africa: The great money migration 

By Aljazeera  May 2, 2014 Bahar Dar, Ethiopia - The figures are staggering: At least $1.8 trillion illicitly flowed out of Africa between 1970 and 2009. This is far more than the external aid the continent received over the same period, and

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Out of Africa: The great money migration 

By Aljazeera  May 2, 2014 Bahar Dar, Ethiopia - The figures are staggering: At least $1.8 trillion illicitly flowed out of Africa between 1970 and 2009. This is far more than the external aid the continent received over the same period, and

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