By John Powers Boston GLOBE APRIL 18, 2014 In the beginning there was Abebe Bikila, the imperial guard who ran barefoot atop Roman cobblestones by torchlight in 1960 and became the first black African to win the Olympic marathon. The…
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William Davison Fri 18 April 2014 The Guardian South Sudanese refugee Nyarout Chuol with children at the UNHCR refugee camp of Kule in Gambella, Ethiopia. Photograph: William Davison It wasn’t heavy fighting that made Nyarout Chuol leave South Sudan with…
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18 April 2014 BBC Ester Rada is one of Israel’s rising musical stars and has recently released her first album, Life Happens. She says growing up as the daughter of Ethiopian immigrants was sometimes confusing as “a black Jew in…
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18 April 2014 BBC Ester Rada is one of Israel’s rising musical stars and has recently released her first album, Life Happens. She says growing up as the daughter of Ethiopian immigrants was sometimes confusing as “a black Jew in…
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April 17, 2014 By Massoud Hayoun Al Jazeera Sub-Saharan African expatriates working in the U.S. and Europe pay twice as much to wire money home than their Southeast Asian or Latin American counterparts, according to a report from a British economic…
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April 17, 2014 By Massoud Hayoun Al Jazeera Sub-Saharan African expatriates working in the U.S. and Europe pay twice as much to wire money home than their Southeast Asian or Latin American counterparts, according to a report from a British economic…
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April 17, 2014 BBC Tour guide Shraga Ben Yosef gives us a quick trip around Jerusalem’s holiest sites While Christians around the world are enjoying the Easter holiday, Jews everywhere are celebrating the holiday of Passover – a convergence of…
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April 17, 2014 BBC Tour guide Shraga Ben Yosef gives us a quick trip around Jerusalem’s holiest sites While Christians around the world are enjoying the Easter holiday, Jews everywhere are celebrating the holiday of Passover – a convergence of…
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Ahmed Ragai Attiya says that the historic UNESCO site in South Sinai poses a threat to Egypt’s national security, after the monks turned it into ‘a place for foreigners’ Sherry El-Gergawi, 18 April 2014 Ahram Online The holy monastery of…
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BY TESFA-ALEM TEKLE 18 APRIL 2014 Sudan Tribune Addis Ababa — The South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, on Thursday arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he held talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn on the political turmoil…
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