By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said. Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia in Hajja province, a stronghold of the Iran-allied Houthi
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Absorption Ministry puts kibosh on Interior Ministry’s permit to allow infantrymen to bring relatives to Israel By GEDALYAH REBACK Sergeant Chalacho Mekunan receives a citation for service during Operation Protective Edge from southern commander Sami Turgeman this past February (IDF Spokesperson’s office) Two Israeli soldiers born in Ethiopia are accusing the state of dragging its
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On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv to protest police brutality and discrimination against the Ethiopian-Israeli community. Two weeks ago, protests by Israel’s Ethiopian minority against police brutality and discrimination in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv drew international attention. While the protests were sparked by a video of an Ethiopian soldier in uniform being
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -AP– An Ethiopian official says 200 human smugglers have been detained as part of the government’s efforts to stem the number of citizens illegally trying to migrate to Europe. Ethiopian Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam told the Ethiopian News Agency late Sunday that the government is looking for 80 other human smugglers
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Rivlin admits mistakes, Netanyahu vows to make racism ‘contemptible and despicable’ ahead of new protests against police violence Israel did not do enough for Ethiopians making their way to Israel, President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday, admitting years of failings as the Ethiopian-Israeli community held a memorial for those who died while trying to reach the
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Arab News-The Appeals Court in Makkah has ordered the execution of an Ethiopian housemaid for murdering her female employer in the Misan region, 150 km south of Taif, local media reported. The housemaid, 18, confessed to hitting her 50-year-old employer with an ax on the back as she was saying her noon prayer. Her husband
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MAY 16, 2015 The State Department alerts U.S. citizens residing in or traveling to Ethiopia of the upcoming elections scheduled for May 24, 2015. U.S. citizens are urged to exercise caution and remain abreast of the security situation throughout the electoral period. This Travel Alert expires on June 30, 2015. The State Department recommends U.S.
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The man was speaking to a Port Authority Police officer when he jumped, authorities said. By DANIEL HUBBARD An Ethiopian man died Wednesday afternoon after he climbed the New Jersey tower of the George Washington Bridge and jumped into the Hudson River, authorities said. Port Authority Police spokesperson Joe Pentangelo said the man was in
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By JTA Ethiopian Israelis clash with police on April 30 in Tel Aviv to protest racism. Ethiopian-Israeli activists called for a police officer caught on camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier to be put on trial. At a news conference Sunday in Tel Aviv, the activists also demanded that charges be dropped against protesters arrested in
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Anyone viewing the recent clashes between Ethiopian-Israeli demonstrators and local policemen in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv could not help being reminded of similar scenes taking place barely a week earlier in Baltimore. Such a clear visual link between events in two such disparate places cannot but be viewed as further testimony to the power of
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