By BBC TrendingWhat’s popular and why Reporting by India Rakusen The Zone9 bloggers arrested on Friday Just when US Secretary of State John Kerry visits Ethiopia, six of the nation’s leading bloggers have been arrested. On Friday afternoon at 5pm Addis…
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By Simona Rabinovitch stylebistro.com Sometimes what makes a look all the more lovely isn’t what you put into it––but what you leave out. Liya Kebede showcased her natural beauty at the David Yurman Townhouse in NYC yesterday. The supermodel and designer (check…
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam Should we despair over Africa?In March 2004, Nicholas Kristof, the noted columnist for the New York Times declared in frustration, “Africa is a mess. It is the only continent that has gotten poorer over the last four decades and…
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Israel Hayom
“Not even a lawmaker would imagine that a young girl would be so humiliated by a bus driver on a school field trip only because of the color of her skin and ethnic background,” the complaint says.
An 11-year-old Israeli girl of Ethiopian descent has filed a lawsuit against a school bus driver who humiliated her and made disparaging racist remarks during a class field trip to a swimming pool.
The lawsuit, filed at the Jerusalem Municipal Court with assistance from the Justice Ministry’s legal aid department, emphasized the importance of a case highlighting such “extreme” defamation.
The complaint details the bus driver’s offensive actions, saying that at one point he took the microphone and said to the girl, “Hey you, the monkey in the back.”
Later, when she was outside the bus taking her bag from the baggage compartment, the driver called out, “Where is the monkey?”
When she returned to the bus, the driver said: “There you are. You will not behave this way on my bus. You can act like that in your parents house. What difference will it make? They are monkeys anyway, so you can go to that zoo.” The remarks were made in front of the girl’s friends.
“Not even a lawmaker would imagine that a young girl would be so humiliated by a bus driver on a school field trip only because of the color of her skin and ethnic background,” the complaint read.
The complaint also said the fifth-grader also feared that the driver would hit her.
The bus company Pituach Mateh Binyamin released a statement saying that “the claims were brought before all relevant bodies. We were surprised to hear about the lawsuit because we have not been summoned to court.”
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
Sudan Tribune
April 29, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrean rebel group, the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO), alleged on Monday it had killed and wounded dozens of Eritrean government intelligence agents in an attack inside the reclusive East African nation.
The Ethiopia-based rebel group said that the strike was carried out at the military barracks of an intelligence unit based in the Northern Red Sea region in the vicinity of Alhan.
Ibrahim Haron, the leader of the rebel group, told Sudan Tribune that their “forces in the early hours of Saturday attacked the military camp and killed 27 intelligence agents and wounded many others belonging to the 15th sub-division intelligence unit”.
The rebel leader said his fighters took control of the military base for over eight hours following the attack, destroying the entire camp before leaving the area.
The group also claims to have captured various types of weapons.
There was no immediate comment from the government in Asmara and the claims cannot be independently verified.
He said there were some 70 government intelligence members inside the camp during the assault but he said none of them tried to engage the rebel fighters.
“They preferred to runaway than fight against [us]. This indicates how much the government army is weakening,” the rebels said.
Ibrahim said the latest assault was in retaliation to ethnic killings by Eritrean government agents targeting Afar minorities.
This is the rebel group’s first cross-border attack since 2012 when they killed 30 Eritrean soldiers in an attack at a military base in the Southern Red Sea region.
RSADO which is a member of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), a coalition of 11 Eritrean political organisations, renewed its calls for other opposition members to join the armed struggle to topple president Isaias Afwerki’s regime.
After the 1998-2000 bloody border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, Asmara considers Eritrea’s Afars as being aligned to Ethiopia and having links to fellow Afar tribes in Ethiopia.
By Edna Adato and Efrat Forsher Israel Hayom “Not even a lawmaker would imagine that a young girl would be so humiliated by a bus driver on a school field trip only because of the color of her skin and…
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APRIL 29, 2014 EFF BY EVA GALPERIN Six Ethiopian bloggers, all members of the Zone Nine bloggers’ collective, were arrested this weekend. Befekadu Hailu, Atnaf Berahane, Natnael Feleke, Mahlet Fantahun, Zelalem Kibret, and Abel Wabela were reportedly arrested in the streets or…
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Sudan Tribune April 29, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrean rebel group, the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO), alleged on Monday it had killed and wounded dozens of Eritrean government intelligence agents in an attack inside the…
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Sudan Tribune April 29, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrean rebel group, the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO), alleged on Monday it had killed and wounded dozens of Eritrean government intelligence agents in an attack inside the…
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29 April 2014 Middle East Monitor Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome met on Monday with Rashad Mustafa Shawa, chairperson of the Swiss water company Mai Resources International, to discuss the mechanisms of exporting his country’s Nile water resources to Kuwait. The Ethiopian…
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