By Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post The World Economic Forum’s annual report on the global gender gap contains some predictable data. Nordic countries blessed with robust social democracies make up the top five places in the rankings, beginning with tiny Iceland. The bottom five countries — Yemen, Pakistan, Chad, Syria and Mali — are racked with political instability and
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By Aragaw Addis Ababa ( Agencies + DIPLOMAT.SO) – The Voice of America (VOA) Amharic Service, on its October 21 special program, reports the killing of over 540 people, mostly from the Amhara ethnic group, in a conflict with the Mezenger people in the Gambella region of Western Ethiopia. The gruesome massacre that started in
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By Daniel P George, Times of India CHENNAI: High drama prevailed at the Chennai airport on Monday morning when bodies of the five Tamil Nadu men killed in a blast at a sugar factory in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa arrived. The relatives of the deceased refused to accept the bodies unless the state
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By Matt Petronzio Time is dwindling to meet the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations’ blueprint to tackle an array of large-scale global problems by a target date of 2015. One of those goals, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, has seen progress, but there’s still work to be done. According to the International Food Policy
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(BBC)- Between April and July 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Rwanda has suspended BBC broadcasts in the Kinyarwanda language with immediate effect because of a film questioning official accounts of the 1994 genocide. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (Rura) said it had received complaints from the public
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openDemocracy By NICK DEARDEN 30 years after images of Ethiopian famine haunted British TV screens, they still shape how we see Africa – and ensure we fail to understand. It’s 30 years since Michael Buerke’s harrowing report of a ‘biblical famine’ reached BBC TV screens. Following a year of cynical government inaction and silence, Bob
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Zambia Daily Mail THE Nakonde Magistrate’s Court has sentenced 26 Ethiopians to one year imprisonment each with hard labour for failing to appear before an immigration officer. And a total of 24 Ethiopians have been removed from Zambia with financial support of the International Organisation for Migration. Immigration public relations officer Namati Nshinka said in
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The Daily Beast China Hooked on Mideast’s Favorite Drug It’s a common sight in this city, as it is in Yemen, Somalia or Ethiopia: idle men plucking leaves out of a flimsy plastic bag, grinding them into mush between their teeth, filling every crevice with bits of green. A few local women warned me about
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7DAYS Dubai Maids Wube Tamene (left) and Hedja Ousman (right) Two maids have spoken of the appalling abuse they claim was dished out by their employers, as a top diplomat called for an end to household “slavery”. Hedja Ousman, 22, and Wube Tamene, 18, worked for families in the UAE and both say they were
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Debirhan – The study titled “The Foreign-Born Population From Africa: 2008–2012” based on a nationwide sampling of households between 2008 and 2012 prepared by the American Community Survey (ACS) Briefs and published in October 2014, found that there were 164,000 (10% of the African population) Ethiopians living in the U.S. within the five year period. About 221,000
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