By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, M&G HI.M. Haile Selassie (C) and Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah (L) at the OAU (1963) Africa Day is on Sunday. How close has the continent come to achieving the integration the OAU founders had in mind when they formed the body in 1963? In 1978 Jamaican reggae artist Hugh Mundell had a
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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research Based on research conducted in the 1990s, this article was first published by The Ecologist in September 2000. It was subsequently incorporated into the Second edition of The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003. The research focussed on how GMO seeds were used as of the
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MENAFN – Arab News - (MENAFN – Arab News) An ethiopian housemaid has been arrested for allegedly pouring boiling cooking oil on four members of a saudi family in the town of dawadmi in riyadh. the man and his wife suffered first-degree burns. the two children’s injuries are not serious local media reported on friday.
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Opride (OPride) — My grandfather Ayana Debosie Halo had a habit of making the entire family tune into his favorite radio station: The Voice of Oromo Liberation (better known by its Oromo acronym SBO). Began in late 1980s, SBO is a shortwave radio run by the Oromo Liberation Front, a political organization that struggles for
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By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press Kefelgn Alemu Worku AP-A brutal Ethiopian jail guard who tortured and killed dozens of people during government-sponsored violence in the 1970s should spend 22 years in prison for immigration crimes, a federal judge ruled Friday, saying the United States cannot become a refuge for human-rights violators. “The risk that this
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By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press Kefelgn Alemu Worku AP-A brutal Ethiopian jail guard who tortured and killed dozens of people during government-sponsored violence in the 1970s should spend 22 years in prison for immigration crimes, a federal judge ruled Friday, saying the United States cannot become a refuge for human-rights violators. “The risk that this
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The Irish Times Tullow Oil said on Friday its Shimela-1 well in Ethiopia has found water-bearing reservoirs. The exploration group said Shimela-1, which is located in the South Omo Block in Ethiopia, was drilled to test a prospect in a north-western sub-basin of the vast Chew Bahir basin. The frontier wildcat well encountered lacustrine and
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BY BUSANI BAFANA Sustainable Development Alert net Addis Ababa — Funeral societies may make their money from the business of bereavement, but in Ethiopia they are also important social networks that use kinship and trust to cushion communities from the worst effects of disasters. Ethiopian burial and mutual aid societies known as “iddirs” are a
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By SADIE GURMAN, The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man who authorities say masked his identity as a brutal guard at an Ethiopian prison faces sentencing for immigration fraud. Kefelgn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo WER’-koo) was convicted in October of identity theft and lying on immigration forms by denying he committed political violence. Witnesses
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In what appears to be one of a collection of measures to silence the press ahead of 2015 elections, Ethiopian authorities in the Communications Ministry are preparing a new system to control the distribution of print media. Privately owned newspapers and magazines, possibly the only remaining independent news sources in the country, would face more
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