By Manuela Hoelterhoff March 14, 2014 Conservation biologist Margaret D. Lowman spends a lot of time balancing at the top of trees. To get there, she’s designed hot air balloons and travels the world with her climbing rigs. Recently Lowman, 60, returned…
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Repression of Civil Society Contravenes Organization’s Rules MARCH 14, 2014 The Ethiopian government has crushed activist groups and muzzled the media. Ethiopia’s harsh repression of independent voices is utterly incompatible with this global effort to increase public oversight over…
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March 13, 2014 Marthe van der Wolf, VOA South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir attends a session during the 25th Extraordinary Summit of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on South Sudan in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, March 13, 2014. East…
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Qatar News Agency (MENAFN – Qatar News Agency) The Arab League’s Ministerial Council has welcomed the Qatari mediation aimed at ending the dispute between Djibouti and Eretria through peaceful means and restoring the situation in the Ras Doumeira area and…
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Tanzania Daily News BY HARRIET KIAMA, Senior Regional Immigration Officer, Mr Ndelema Mwakipesile said on Thursday that 21 illegal immigrants of Ethiopian origin have been caught along Mbegani Beach in Bagamoyo District in Coast Region over the weekend. According to…
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By Andrew Grossman U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington in this file photo taken June 25, 2013. Holder said his agency was stepping up efforts to stem sharp increases in deadly heroin overdoses, trafficking…
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Egypt condemns failed coup attempt, promises to send troops to South Sudan CAIRO-EGYPT, March 13 2014 (NASS) - The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Adly al Mansour said his country is preparing to send troops to South Sudan in…
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Thu, 13/03/2014 Al-Masry Al-Youm Reaching an agreement with Ethiopia is possible as talks are the best way to find a solution for the Renaissance Dam crisis, said Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdel Muttalib during a phone-in with Mehwar Channel Wednesday…
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By William Easterly, Time March 13, 2014 Too much of America’s foreign aid funds what I call authoritarian development. That’s when the international community–experts from the U.N. and other bodies–swoop into third-world countries and offer purely technical assistance to dictatorships like…
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Turkish Press March 13, 2014 ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam project will become partially-operational by September 2015, according to Zadig Abraha, head of the project’s supervisory committee. Initially, Abraha added, the mega-dam will be able to produce 750…
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