AFP By Jenny Vaughan Awaday (Ethiopia) (AFP) – For a town seen as a key trading centre for khat, a drug that is banned in many countries, Ethiopia’s Awaday can seem pretty drowsy and laid-back. As the sun sets on the small eastern town, farmers and brokers of the amphetamine shrub rouse from an afternoon slumber
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AFP Guarabouli (Libya) (AFP) – Libyan rescuers have recovered the bodies of around 170 people after a boat carrying illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank at sea last week, a coast guard official said Monday. “We freed about 100 bodies trapped in the hold of the 16-metre (50-foot) wooden boat which foundered not far from
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Sudan Tribune By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 24, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Germany has contributed 750,000 euros to provide ongoing humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, mostly from South Sudan. Nearly 190,000 South Sudanese have fled to Ethiopia since conflict erupted in the country in mid-December last year (AFP)Humanitarian provisions at camps
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BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK Abubakar Shekau, the mercurial leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group, Boko Haram, today released a video in which he declares the areas under his sect’s control a Caliphate and shows scenes of carnage carried out by his fighters against unarmed civilians. The video, which is the most gruesome since Boko Haram started
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Aurorasistercities.org. The city of Aurora has partnered with its first sister city, Adama, Ethiopia, under a revived Aurora Sister Cities program. A delegation from Adama will visit Aurora, and other parts of Colorado, August 22 through 31. Aurora is Adama’s first U.S. sister city, providing a unique opportunity to create innovative and new programs both
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RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN ARAB NEWS Police arrested a large number of illegal expatriates in the south of the capital in an early morning raid on Thursday under the direct supervision of Riyadh Gov. Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. According to one eyewitness, operations started immediately after dawn prayers. He said that more than
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By JENNY VAUGHAN Agence France-Presse ETHIOPIA, Jugol: People walk past the Fallana Gate on the northern part of the walled city Jugol in Ethiopia. The ancient wall and its five gates were initially built by an early king of Harar, Emir Nur ibn Mujahid, in order to keep outsiders from entering. AFP PHOTO / ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER
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Malawi Nyasa Times Traditional leaders in Malawi’s boarder district of Karonga are appealing to government authorities to devise safety measures that would protect their subjects from contracting Ebola virus saying Karonga is at risk of being affected with the virus due to the illegal immigrants who enter in the district. The appeal from Senior Traditional
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BBC Heavily armed police wearing riot gear have become a regular sight on the streets of the St Louis suburb Egypt’s government has called on US authorities to show restraint against protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. It said it was “closely following the escalation of protests” after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by
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Star News Online Sarah Isaac, a New Hanover County Schools counselor, poses with kids at the Children of Destiny Academy in Gofa, Ethiopia. Contributed photo By Sarah Isaac I took a leap of faith this summer, choosing to spend a month in Ethiopia. The few trips in high school where I was taken outside of
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