By Goorish Wibneh Seattle has become one of the preferred destinations for Ethiopian immigrants. Some estimates say there are as many as ten thousand Ethiopians living in the Seattle area. Talking to Ethiopian Americans here in Seattle you might never realize how big the worldwide Ethiopian diaspora is or what people go through to find
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By AFP General view of migrants from Eritrea who stand and sit near tents as they live in a make-shift camp under a metro bridge in Paris, France, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Paris (AFP) – French authorities Tuesday cleared hundreds of migrants from two camps, one under a subway bridge in Paris and the
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New York Times THE standard image of dictatorship is of a government sustained by violence. In 20th-century totalitarian systems, tyrants like Stalin, Hitler and Mao murdered millions in the name of outlandish ideologies. Strongmen like Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire left trails of blood. But in recent decades, a new brand of authoritarian government has
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By Prof Yossi Mekelberg Chatham House, BBC From the section Middle East Israelis from the Ethiopian community take part in a protest against alleged police brutality and institutionalised discrimination in Haifa in May 2015 Israelis from the Ethiopian community protest in Haifa The story of the immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel epitomises
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In July 2012, an Ethiopian court charged the prominent journalist Eskinder Nega with conspiring to commit terrorist acts. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison under a broad and ill-defined law. His crime? Writing about the Arab Spring and calling for peaceful protests. A frequent critic of the government and a prominent journalist, Nega
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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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By Sonia Farid | Special to Al Arabiya News Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was at Cairo International Airport to welcome 27 Ethiopians who were abducted by militants in Libya and freed by Egyptian authorities. In a press conference at the airport in the presence of the Ethiopian ambassador to Cairo, Sisi said Ethiopians were
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called the approval of the plans ”an absolute record” EU ministers have approved plans to establish a naval force to combat people-smugglers operating from Libya. The aim is to launch the operation next month, with a headquarters in Rome under an Italian admiral, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini
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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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