United Nations World Food Programme (Rome) Juba, 31 March 2014 — Alarmed at the impact of ongoing violence in South Sudan, the heads of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) arrived here today on a…
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Sudan Tribune March 31, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudanese who recently entered Ethiopia from Kenya have accused the Ethiopian embassy in Nairobi of allegedly denying them travel visas. The refugees who originally fled the current conflict…
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29 March 2014 Madote Eritrea will attend the 4th EU-Africa Summit which will take place in Brussels on 2-3 April 2014, according to an Eritrean diplomat. The summit will bring together African and EU leaders, as well as the leaders…
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28 March 2014 By Jonathan Walker Birmingham post Home Office survey of people of Somali origin in Birmingham in 2005 found that 34 per cent said they had chewed khat in month before the interview Khat The Home Secretary has rejected calls…
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March 27, 2014 Ugandan police divers helped in the search for survivors, and bodies More than 250 people died in last Saturday’s boat capsize on Lake Albert between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, a minister has said. This…
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 27 MARCH 2014 Today’s good news is, more than 24,000 people across the world signed a petition launched by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) for the release of Somali Journalist Mohamed Aweys Mudey, who was…
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Thursday, March 27, 2014 ADDIS ABABA – An Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman has lashed out at longstanding rival Eritrea, accusing the latter of destabilizing the East Africa region, while also blasting Egypt for the latter’s “malicious” media campaign against Ethiopia’s…
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March 26, 2014 Doctors Without Borders For the past several weeks, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Ethiopia have been providing assistance to South Sudanese refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their country. It is estimated that more…
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26 March 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk Police have arrested 39 undocumented immigrants and two human traffickers from Ethiopia near the frontier town of Merille in Kenya’s Samburu County. “They will be charged by Wednesday for being in the…
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26 March 2014 BBC BBC News profiles the man some are calling Egypt’s president-in-waiting Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced that he has resigned as Egypt’s military chief in order to stand for the presidency. He made the widely…
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