By Tadias Magazine New York (TADIAS) — The Coca-Cola Company, headquartered in Atlanta, respon Saturday, June 7th, 2014 ded to queries regarding the unreleased, Ethiopian version of Coke’s FIFA World Cup song performed by Teddy Afro. Coca Cola confirmed that Teddy’s contract was handled by a third party, Mandala Limited, a Kenyan production company based
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By APO GENEVA, Switzerland -African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Addis Ababa, in partnership with the Ethiopian government, is expanding its community dialogue facilitators’ training programme on irregular migration from Amhara Regional State to neighbouring Tigray. The training, targeting 140 participants, will cover five of the seven zonal administrations in the southern, eastern, central, north
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AFP Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopian police arrested 25 people accused of plotting attacks in the country and suspected of having links to Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels, officials said Thursday. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told AFP that those detained had been trained by the militants in Somalia and were planning a series of attacks in
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Al Jazeera African migrants detained in Libya About 200 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Eritrea, have been detained in Zawiya west of Tripoli as they tried to cross to Europe while hidden in vehicles, Libyan officials have said. “Two hundred migrants, including 160 men and 40 women from Ethiopia and Eritrea, were captured. They were
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gulf-daily-news.com By SANDEEP SINGH GREWAL Stricter laws urged after maid’s ordeal A HOUSEMAID who was kept in a state of “modern-day slavery” for more than a decade highlights the need for stricter domestic worker employment laws, according to rights activists. The story of Ethiopian Seble Abebe Tessm, who was paid less than 18 months’ salary
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Associated Press By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official and witnesses say the bodies of dozens of illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have been found on western beaches after their boat capsized in the Red Sea. Witnesses said Monday that about 50 bodies were found starting Friday and buried
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Punchng BY NAN The Ethiopian Government has sought the support of the United Nations Population Fund to sustain efforts to empower women and youths, an official said in Addis Ababa. This is according to a statement issued by the Ethiopian Government and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Addis Ababa.
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Egypt Independent Seventy-seven Ethiopians arrived on Saturday at Cairo International Airport on their way to being deported back to their country. They entered Egypt’s Aswan governorate via Sudan and were attempting to sneak into Israel. Security sources at the airport said the deportees include three children. Interrogations proved that they were seeking arrival at Sinai
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam (Author’s note: This commentary appeared on Pambazuka.org on May 29, 2014 as part of a mid-century outlook on possible scenarios in Africa. I make my “predictions” debating myself as a political scientist and a defense lawyer.) Is there light at the end of the tunnel for the “Dark Continent”? “Making predictions
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By William Davison Bloomberg Ethiopian immigrants wait near Obok, north of Djibouti’s capital, for smugglers’ boats to cross the Gulf of Aden into Yemen. Numbers traveling across the Gulf of Aden have risen this year even after Saudi Arabia, the intended destination for many, began mass deportations of unregistered employees. Photographer: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty
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