GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall. “We are concerned because there is the beginning of a locust invasion in the eastern part of the country, and if
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The Next Women Andrea Kolb of The Next Women meets Tigist and Haimanot Damtew from Ethiopia, founders of jewelry design company T&H Designs, who were trained in the trade by the NGO Gemini Trust. Andrea herself is the founder of social fashion brand ABURY, one of the companies through which pieces of jewelry from T&H Designs are sold.
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AFP Khartoum: Sudan plans to supply neighbouring Eritrea with electricity, official media reported on Friday, just months after Khartoum said it would buy power from Eritrea’s rival Ethiopia. The Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company has begun work on a 45-kilometre (28-mile) line between eastern Sudan’s Kassala state to Teseney, just over the border in Eritrea, the
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Emirates 247 A 15-year-old Kuwaiti boy used a large stick to torture his Ethiopian housemaid to death before he was arrested by the police, a newspaper reported on Monday. The boy’s mother had told police the maid had been beaten up by unknown assailants during her weekend but her claims were not convincing, Al Watan
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Gulf News Dubai: An Emirati housewife lost her legal battle on Monday after Dubai’s highest court confirmed that she will spend 15 years in prison for beating and torturing her maid to death. The Dubai Cassation Court rejected the appeal of the 46-year-old housewife, R.M., for a reduced punishment and confirmed her 15-year imprisonment. R.M.
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By Charlton Doki IPS JUBA-Twenty-year-old Wani Lo Keji stares at the sky as his herd of cattle drink water from the eastern bank of the Nile River, just opposite South Sudan’s capital, Juba. “We bring our animals here everyday because the seasonal river near our village has dried. There were many herders fighting for water
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AA ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Turkey’s Anadolu Agency on Monday officially inaugurated its new regional bureau in Addis Ababa as part of the agency’s plans to bolster its Africa coverage. “I am honored to see ministers and ambassadors attending the inauguration of our office in Ethiopia,” AA Director-General and Board Chairman Kemal Ozturk said at the opening
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Global Voices Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle Join Nigerian bloggers Blossom Nnodim (@blcompere) and Nwachukwu Egbunike (@feathersproject), along with Global Voices editor Ndesanjo Macha (@ndesanjo) from Tanzania for an Africa-wide tweetathon in support of the nine bloggers and journalists arrested in late April and currently being detained in Ethiopia. The Global Voices community and our network of friends
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By APA Justice ministers and attorney generals of African Union (AU) member countries are scheduled to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 15 and16, to consider a draft protocol to expand the authority of the African Court on Justice and Human Rights, sources said Monday.The authority is expected to be extended to include criminal
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