Ethiopia’s Rift Valley 2nd in Lonely Planet Top 10 World Wonder List

28 March 2014 By CAROL DRIVER DailyMail Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia: Dallol volcano in the Great Rift Valley – the world’s largest rift system which stretches 6,000km from the Red Sea down to Lake Malawi. Up to 74km in places,

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11 Ethiopian migrants Arrested In Kenya

27 March 2014 By Angel Mboya Citizens News Police in Embu have this morning arrested 11 illegal immigrants of Ethiopian origin who were being taken from Isiolo to Nairobi. Embu West OCPD Elphis Korir said that the 11 were intercepted

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I am an African first

voicesofafrica.co.za By Keith Mundangepfupfu Thu 27 Mar 2014 (Pic: Flickr / Pali_Nalu) “Hi my name is Keith and I am African.” This is how I choose to identify myself. Although I am Zimbabwean, Shona, black and Christian, I am an

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NPR: 3 Ethiopian Asylum-Seekers at the US Border Shelter

27 March 2014 A U.S. Border Shelter That Attracts Asylum Seekers Far And Wide By Steve Inskeep The La Posada Providencia shelter in San Benito, Texas, is run by a group of nuns. While the shelter is just across the

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Uganda capsize ‘killed 251 refugees’

March 27, 2014 Ugandan police divers helped in the search for survivors, and bodies More than 250 people died in last Saturday’s boat capsize on Lake Albert between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, a minister has said. This

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More Than 24,000 People Petitioned Ethiopian Government to Free Somali Journalist

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 27 MARCH 2014 Today’s good news is, more than 24,000 people across the world signed a petition launched by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) for the release of Somali Journalist Mohamed Aweys Mudey, who was

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Dina Mufti cries out at Eritrea, Egypt

Thursday, March 27, 2014 ADDIS ABABA – An Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman has lashed out at longstanding rival Eritrea, accusing the latter of destabilizing the East Africa region, while also blasting Egypt for the latter’s “malicious” media campaign against Ethiopia’s

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Turkish firm to build $175mn textile plant in Oromia

Fibre2fashion News Desk – India Addis Abeba:Turkish textile manufacturing firm Akber is set to construct the biggest textile plant worth US$ 175 million in the Ejere town of the Oromia region of Ethiopia, as per the Ethiopian Textile Industry Development

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Sedki Sobhi: New Egyptian military chief sworn in

March 27, 2014 BBC News profiles the man some are calling Egypt’s president-in-waiting Egypt’s new armed forces chief and defence minister has been sworn in, a day after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi resigned so he could stand for the presidency. Interim

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Ethiopian Airlines backs the London Coffee Stop Awards

27 March 2014 ITCM  Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s expanding carrier, is teaming with Blue Dot World to sponsor the first ever London Coffee Stop Awards.  Through to April 2nd, coffee lovers are invited to vote for their favourite coffee shop from

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