Noor Dubai Foundation visits Ethiopia to eliminate trachoma

Three-year Trachoma Elimination Programme will help millions of Ethiopians. Gulf News Image Credit: WAM Dubai: A delegation from Noor Dubai Foundation recently travelled to Ethiopia as part of its three-year programme to eliminate trachoma, an eye disease associated with poverty and which affects millions. The delegation, in collaboration with the Carter Centre, visited the Amhara

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‘My Ethiopia nostalgia’

By MONICA KAYOMBO Zambia Daily Mail Monica Kayombo (right) with Memory Chipango, a travel agent at Voyagers Travel and Tours pose for a photo at the African Union Building in Addis Abba. PREPARATIONS for my second visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after my first in 2010, started like any other, but little did I know

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Ethiopians Abroad Rally to Help Compatriots Expelled from Saudi Arabia

By APO Press Releases GENEVA, Switzerland, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Ethiopian community in Finland has donated over EUR 7,700 towards IOM’s relief efforts to help destitute Ethiopians expelled from Saudi Arabia. The donation from the Finnish Ethiopian community follows similar initiatives by US-based Ethiopian associations and individuals who have also offered

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Court Day Of Zone9 Bloggers And Journos – Amharic

የጋዜጠኞቹ እና ብሎገሮቹ የፍርድ ቤት ውሎ – By Addis Gudaye “የሥነልቡና ጫና ደርሶብኛል” ጋዜጠኛ አስማማው ኃ/ጊዮርጊስ “ከሌሊቱ 8 ሰዓት እየተወሰድኩ ድብደባ፣ ማስፈራራት እና ወከባ ተፈጽሞብኛል” አጥናፍ ብርሃኔ “ለምርመራ የምጠቀምበት አንድ ኮምፒውተር ነው ያለኝ፤ ጊዜ ይሰጠኝ” ፖሊስ ቅዳሜ ግንቦት 9፣ 2006 በቀጠሯቸው መሠረት አራዳ ምድብ ችሎት የቀረቡት 3 ጋዜጠኞች እና 3 ብሎገሮች ነበሩ፡፡ ፖሊስ የተጠርጣሪዎቹን ጉዳዩ

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General al-Sisi ready to visit Ethiopia for water talks

Egypt’s presidential front runner Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has said that he is ready to visit Ethiopia for talks on resolving their Nile water dispute. World Bulletin/News Desk “Dialogue and understanding are the best way to resolve the crisis,” al-Sisi said in an interview with the state-run Al-Ahram daily on Saturday. “This is better than going into

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Wise Societies Surely Know How to Share

By Teshome Abebe Having spent the past couple of months on diplomatic efforts against the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and failing, Egyptian authorities are now pointing accusatory finger(s) at Ethiopia for not responding to their calls for new negotiations. It would have been a most enlightened act on their part to refrain from besmirching

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Wise Societies Surely Know How to Share

By Teshome Abebe Having spent the past couple of months on diplomatic efforts against the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and failing, Egyptian authorities are now pointing accusatory finger(s) at Ethiopia for not responding to their calls for new negotiations. It would have been a most enlightened act on their part to refrain from besmirching

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Being accused of crimes after facing gang-rape in Sudan      

Kimberly M. Brown for Equality Now – WNN Justice commentary Ethiopian migrant woman in Sudan suffer injustice through marginalization, denial of court procedures and police protection. Image: Albert-González-Farran/UNphoto (WNN/EN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA:  Last August, while house hunting in Omdurman, Sudan, a 19-year-old pregnant and divorced Ethiopian woman was lured to an empty property and

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Translating the Bible Into Opo Language

Anglican Communion News Service(London) On Easter Sunday, Opo people gathered together from the 5 Opo Anglican Churches to hear the Gospel of Mark for the first time in their own language. The Opo are a recently reached group in Gambella. Their entire ethnic group numbers approximately 5,000 people. Until many of them recently became Anglican

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Ethiopia’s rare mountain lions

DW A film by Kilian Schützeatch the report A German conservation group is compensating local farmers in Ethiopia’s Kafa region,whose lifestock is often seized by rare mountain lions. In return, the farmers are helping protect the big cats. Project goal: documenting and protecting the lions of Kafa (among the very few African lions not living

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