BBC The Sudan Council of Churches has criticised the authorities for banning the construction of new churches. Over the weekend, a Sudanese government minister said there were already enough churches to provide for Christians. The council’s secretary-general told the BBC the announcement came after a church was demolished near the capital, Khartoum, this month by
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BBC A legal battle has been launched by an Ethiopian citizen who claims the UK has helped to fund a “brutal” resettlement programme in his country. The man, who can only be referred to as “O”, won permission to seek a judicial review at London’s High Court. He wants a ruling that the UK acted
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Arabtimesonline KUWAIT CITY: The Criminal Investigation Department has arrested 20 Ethiopians from various parts of Hawalli for indulging in immoral activities, reports Al-Anba daily. The daily added at the time of arrest all those arrested were wearing indecent clothes. Meanwhile, police have arrested an unidentified Filipino masseur for possessing 80 grams of narcotic substance, reports
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By Tom Rhodes CPJ East Africa Representative People demonstrate in Addis Ababa on May 24 against security forces who shot at students at a peaceful rally weeks eearlier in Oromia state. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri) “If they cannot indoctrinate you into their thinking, they fire you,” said one former staff member of the state-run Oromia Radio and Television
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Yemen Times Forty-four Ethiopians who have been held since Monday in Taiz governorate are currently awaiting deportation and are not seeking refugee status. Coast Guard spokesperson Major Hussein Al-Harazi confirmed the arrest and said the 44 Ethiopians were taken to Mocha Security Department. Colonel Saleh Alfani, the director of operations for the Coast Guard, told
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By Megan Cloherty , WTOP ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An Alexandria woman killed Friday was strangled to death, according to the Virginia Medical Examiner’s office. Asabech Worku, 43, is the city’s third homicide victim of the year. There were no obvious signs of trauma and no evidence of a break-in. Worku’s sister found her unresponsive Friday
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KomoNews LAKE FOREST PARK, Wash. — Police say an angry ex-boyfriend barged into his former girlfriend’s Lake Forest Park apartment on Tuesday and viciously beat the woman and her two roommates. The violent incident happened Tuesday before 7:30 a.m. at a home in the 2600 block of Northeast 195th Street. The residents told police three
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam According to the latest Failed States Index, 6 out of the top 10 and 18 out of the top 25 “most failed states on earth” are found in Africa. This commentary is not about beating the dead hyena of the failed African “state”. Nor is it about the failure of statecraft in much
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Agence France Presse ADDIS ABABA: Hundreds of Muslims protesters demonstrated in Ethiopia Friday, demanding the release of 17 of their leaders jailed under terrorism charges last year. “What the government is doing doesn’t solve the problem, rather it will worsen the situation,” said protestor Mohammad Seman, speaking at the demonstration following busy Friday prayers at
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Aljazeera Students and civil servants in the northwestern Xinjiang province have been ordered to not observe traditional fasting. Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest have been ordered by the state to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Statements posted in the past week on websites of schools,
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