By SAMUEL E. LIU, The Harvard Crimson The first Harvard gallery exclusively for African & African American art, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, opened Tuesday. To celebrate the event, the Hutchins Center hosted a discussion with curators David Adjaye and Mariane Ibrahim-Lenhardt, moderated by professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and held
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(BBC)The Malian government has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the country. It said a two-year-old girl had tested positive for the haemorrhagic virus. Reports say she recently returned from the neighbouring Guinea. More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola – mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone – since March. Meanwhile, an
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Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a critic of the Ethiopian regime, was kidnapped in Yemen. The Independent By JONATHAN OWEN The Prime Minister has personally intervened in the case of a British father-of-three facing the death sentence in Ethiopia, after the man’s children appealed for his help. David Cameron wrote to the Ethiopian Prime Minister in a bid
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Some 700 Chinese peacekeepers are expected to join a United Nations mission in South Sudan at the start of next year, the head of the U.N. operation said on Wednesday, though she appealed for Beijing to deploy the battalion “sooner rather than later.” China announced last month that
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Zambia Daily Mail THE Nakonde Magistrate’s Court has sentenced 26 Ethiopians to one year imprisonment each with hard labour for failing to appear before an immigration officer. And a total of 24 Ethiopians have been removed from Zambia with financial support of the International Organisation for Migration. Immigration public relations officer Namati Nshinka said in
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By Mading Ngor: Bloomberg East African leaders will meet in South Sudan’s capital today for a summit on the latest efforts to end the country’s 10-month-old civil war. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir will brief leaders from Kenya, Uganda andEthiopia on the outcome of a meeting he held with rebel leader Riek Machar in Tanzania, Foreign Ministry spokesman
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Sudan Tribune By Tesfa-Alem Tekle October 22, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudan government has unexpectedly recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia in a move an official described as “a normal administrative practice”. South Sudan foreign affairs spokesperson Mawien Makol (Photo credit: citizen-news) Family sources told Sudan Tribunethat David Dang Kong was asked by the foreign
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Ethiomedia Dr Berhanu Nega (right) with Ethiomedia editor Abraha Belai Dr Berhanu Nega, chairman of Ginbot 7, the Movement for Freedom, Justice and Democracy, was in Seattle recently. He addressed Ethiopians on the progress of Ginbot 7 as well as the overall political situation in Ethiopia. Later in the evening, some friends met Dr Berhanu
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Analysis by James HassamReprint ,IPS Ethiopia has an estimated 70 million smallholder farmers, many of whom only grow sufficient amounts of crops like grain and coffee to support their families like those in Lalibela, Amhara Region. Climate change will inevitably have an impact on people’s lives. Credit: James Hassam/IPS ADDIS ABABA, Oct 21 2014 (IPS) -
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The Daily Beast China Hooked on Mideast’s Favorite Drug It’s a common sight in this city, as it is in Yemen, Somalia or Ethiopia: idle men plucking leaves out of a flimsy plastic bag, grinding them into mush between their teeth, filling every crevice with bits of green. A few local women warned me about
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