By SUSANNA KIM For the first time ever, the tallest living man met the shortest in London today. Sultan Kosey of Turkey, 31, measures 8-foot-3. At the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day, he met Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 74, from Nepal. At 21.5 inches, Dangi is the shortest man in history. He weaves Nepalese garments
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By SUSANNA KIM For the first time ever, the tallest living man met the shortest in London today. Sultan Kosey of Turkey, 31, measures 8-foot-3. At the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day, he met Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 74, from Nepal. At 21.5 inches, Dangi is the shortest man in history. He weaves Nepalese garments
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By Ewnetu Sime November 2014 marks the one year anniversary of Ethiopian Migrant workers’ gross human rights violation in the Middle Eastern countries by autocratic regimes particularly in Saudi Arabia. It attracted worldwide attention. Unexpectedly with short time it brought together the Diaspora Community members, Religious Leaders, members of Civil Rights for Women group, Students,
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In 1954 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia became the first foreign head of state to visit the Federal Republic of Germany. His visit brought a breath of the exotic to provincial Bonn, then the provisional capital. For the young Federal Republic of Germany it was both a great honor and a sensation when the Ethiopian
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BEIRUT: An Ethiopian domestic worker threw herself Monday from a fourth floor Beirut apartment and survived what appeared to be a suicide attempt. Videos uploaded online show the woman leaping from a window as spectators let out screams. The incident occurred in capital’s Moseitbeh neighborhood near Lebanese International University. The woman slammed into a car,
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Vice WARNING: This article contains disturbing images Ethiopia, one of the world’s hungriest countries, is selling off vast chunks of its land to foreign investors who are growing food products for export — and those who get in the government’s way are being killed or silenced, according to a new investigation. Under the country’s controversial “villagization”
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Thinktank accuses Ethiopian government of stirring ethnic tensions as Suri displaced to make way for large plantations Suri boys with water gourds herd cattle along a road in Tulgit, Omo valley, Ethiopia. Photograph: Danita Delimont/Alamy David Smith, Africa correspondent, The Guardian Ethiopia’s policy of leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors is encouraging human
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LONDON (AP) — Stars including One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith and Coldplay’s Chris Martin have signed up to re-record charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” with proceeds going to the battle against Ebola. Bob Geldof, who founded the Band Aid movement behind the original 1984 recording, said Monday he had been inspired by
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Famine in area in 1980s was partly responsible for Live Aid concerts being organised President Michael D Higgins meeting a woman and her baby during a visit a refugee camp in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region. Mr Higgins today visited the Tigray province in Ethiopia. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennells. Irish Times- The BBC’s Michael Buerk described the scene
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By Nathan Jacobson Hani Jacobson is an OB-GYN nurse at CentraCare Health Plaza. She moved to America from Mogadishu, Somalia when she was eight years old. (Photo: Kimm Anderson, St. Cloud Times) Editor’s Note: Sahan Journal readers sent a flurry of hateful messages about Hani Jacobson, a Somali mother and a nurse in the town of St.
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