By Lexi Belculfine / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Allegheny County district attorney’s office doesn’t want a woman who admitted abusing two adopted children from Ethiopia released on home confinement and electronic monitoring. Kristen Barbour, 32, of Franklin Park, pleaded no contest in June to two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and was sentenced
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Kenya’s High Court has suspended some sections of the controversial new security law, which was enacted two weeks ago amid fierce opposition. The court blocked eight clauses until a legal challenge mounted by the opposition and rights groups is heard. MPs had exchanged blows while debating the law, which the opposition said would turn Kenya
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By Tesfaye Demmellash (PhD) The dawn of the New Year, 2015, got me thinking about the renewal of the Ethiopian struggle to end the scourge of ethnic dictatorship. I thought about the possibility of infusing our sluggish national resistance with innovative élan and activism by tapping selectively into parts of our past revolutionary experience, whose
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, Jan 1 (Reuters) – A much-delayed $1.8 billion dam project under construction along Ethiopia’s Omo river could begin generating power by June and be fully operational by early 2016, an official said on Thursday. Gilgel Gibe 3 will nearly double the country’s energy output, helping to resolve chronic power outages
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, Jan 1 (Reuters) – A much-delayed $1.8 billion dam project under construction along Ethiopia’s Omo river could begin generating power by June and be fully operational by early 2016, an official said on Thursday. Gilgel Gibe 3 will nearly double the country’s energy output, helping to resolve chronic power outages
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By Fatima Hansia , CorpWatch Blog Saudi Star Agricultural Development plans to pump $100 million into a rice export project in Gambella region of Ethiopia despite allegations of human rights violations surrounding the “villagization” program under which the land has been taken from indigenous Anuak pastoralists to lease to foreign investors. The company is
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Commercial farming, with its vast tracts of land, is running into problems in Ethiopia’s Gambella region – and local communities are reaping few benefits William Davison in Gambella The Guardian As dusk envelops the grasslands of Gambella in western Ethiopia, a weary Jakob Pouch sits on a jerry can, resting his chest against a wooden
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Saudi’s Ministry of Labor said today that it has not yet finished a review of regulations streamlining the resumption of Ethiopian workers to enter the Saudi labor market. Undersecretary of the Ministry for International Labor Affairs Dr. Ahmed Al-Fihaid said following a meeting between the Minister of Labor Adel Faqih and visiting Speaker of Ethiopia’s
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Japan’s Kawaii girls and Ethiopia’s Bana tribe share a love for piles of colourful hair clips In Tokyo, clips are worn on fringes alone with the majority choosing girly shades of pink and lilac The Bana take a bolder approach with beautiful block colours and intricate patterns reigning supreme Bold hair accessories are a big
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OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude and, less frequently, prostitution within
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