Ethiopia sentenced three magazine owners in absentia to more than 3 years in prison

Reporters Without Borders They fled the country before the trial and were convicted in absentia Ethiopia’s federal supreme court yesterday sentenced three magazine owners in absentia to more than three years in prison on charges of “inciting violent revolts, printing and distributing unfounded rumours and conspiring to unlawfully abolish the constitutional system of the country.”

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US Ebola patient Thomas Duncan dies

BBC Duncan The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the US has died, Texas hospital officials have said. Thomas Duncan, who caught the virus in his native Liberia, was being kept in isolation in a Dallas hospital and receiving experimental drugs. Earlier the US announced new security procedures at entry points to check

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Ebola outbreak: Bodies of victims ‘left in the streets’ as burial teams go on strike

The Independent By JAMES RUSH According to reports, workers have complained that they have not been paid Volunteers in protective suit bury the body of a person who died from Ebola in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, some 30 kilometers southeast of Freetown The bodies of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone have been left in the streets

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Ebola outbreak: Bodies of victims ‘left in the streets’ as burial teams go on strike

The Independent By JAMES RUSH According to reports, workers have complained that they have not been paid Volunteers in protective suit bury the body of a person who died from Ebola in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, some 30 kilometers southeast of Freetown The bodies of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone have been left in the streets

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Tanzanian has ratified the 2010 Comprehensive Framework Agreement (CFA)

Newstime Africa ARUSHA (AA) – The Tanzanian cabinet has ratified the 2010 Comprehensive Framework Agreement (CFA) signed by upstream Nile Basin countries, known as the Entebbe Agreement. “The Nile River Cooperation Framework will be ratified by the Tanzanian Parliament in next month,” Minster of State in the President’s Office, Professor Mark Mwandosya, told Anadolu Agency

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Have You Seen Almaz Gebremedhin?

Jobin Panicker, WFAA Almaz Gebremedhin has been missing now for five days Almaz Gebremedhin disappeared after leaving her home in Wylie on October 2, 2014.(Photo: Family photo) WYLIE — Almaz Gebremedhin has been missing now for five days. The 42-year-old mother of two of Ethiopian descent was last seen leaving for work last Thursday. Sisay

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Ethiopians guilty over Muslim face covering

AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A state-affiliated media group in Ethiopia says a court has found 13 people accused of establishing a secret terrorist network guilty over the issue of Muslim face coverings. The broadcaster, Fana, quoted the state prosecutor on Monday as saying the suspects used religion to conceal their terrorist intents and forge

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The gunman ‘diplomat’

By Mihret Feleke  The gunman who tried to take the law into his handsThe news of a shot fired by an Ethiopian embassy staff Solomon Tadesse on peaceful protestors at the embassy of Ethiopia in Washington DC and his ultimate deportation has been the talk of local and international medias. What makes it a very

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Washington DC Ethiopian Embassy Shooting Sparks Rival Protests

By Pamela Dockins, VOA News STATE DEPARTMENT Click to view video. There is more fallout from a shooting last month near the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington that resulted in the embassy security attache being sent home. The incident sparked rival protests Tuesday near the U.S. State Department, with one group urging the United States to

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World Bank, IMF Urge Sub-Saharan Africa to Focus on Ebola Risk

Bloomberg By Rene Vollgraaff Sub-Saharan African economies need to better prepare for the risks of the Ebola outbreak, wider budget shortfalls and security threats from militant groups, according to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. “Risks that require enhanced preparedness include rising fiscal deficits in a number of countries, economic fallouts from the activities

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