Campaign Update: US Withdraws Funding from Land Grabbing in Ethiopia

February 15, 2014 Cultural Survival An Anuak woman walks toward Abol village which has become an isolated island surrounded by leased land. © Photo by Felix Horne. After Cultural Survival supporters sent thousands of emails via our and other websites

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Irish NGO recognised for improving maternity care in Ethiopia

02/15/14 Voluntary Service Overseas Ireland has helped reduce child and maternal rates by as much as 12 per cent in some hospitals. VSO Director Malcolm Quigley (right), Dr. Lemesgnieu, head of one of the NICUs, and Paediatric Nurse Patricia Doyle.

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Jamaican Bobsleigh? No, Ethiopian ski team!

By Ben Young Sat Feb 15, 2014 By Ben Young (Reuters) – There is no precise word for ‘snow’ in the Amharic language of Ethiopia, but that did not stop the Teklemariam brothers from establishing the country’s first ski association

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What will President Al-Sisi Do About Ethiopia?

Ahram Online takes note for the next president of Egypt.  The only part that talks about our issue is this one… “Listen, we cannot turn into North Korea; we cannot do it. Foreign relations are a crucial matter for Egypt.

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150,000 repatriated from Saudi Arabia, but what next?

FEBRUARY 14, 2014 0 The Saudi government’s crackdown has sent floods of migrant workers home.On a hot afternoon in January, hundreds of young Ethiopians filed out of a parked Saudia airplane and streamed into the international terminal of Addis Ababa’s Bole

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Mozambique: Nampula Police Arrest 20 Ethiopian Migrants

02/14/14 Maputo — The Mozambican police in the northern province of Nampula have detained 20 Ethiopian citizens who entered the country illegally, and were trying to make their way to South Africa. According to a report in the Beira daily

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Ethiopian troops deploy in south-central Somalia

By: Apa :  February 14, 2014  Ethiopian forces have been deployed to south-central to battle al-Shabaab militants active in the region, reports indicate Friday.The deployment comes as the Somali Prime Minister Abdi Weli Sheikh Ahmed and his Ethiopian counterpart Hailemariam Desalegn

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Ethiopian delegates arrive in Egypt for training course

02/14/14 World Bulletin / News Desk   An Ethiopian expert delegation arrived in Cairo Friday to attend a training course, security sources said. The nine-strong delegation, from the ministry of water resources and irrigation, will attend the course in the

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Julia Bleasdale training in Ethiopia

Photograph: Julia Bleasdale Julia Bleasdale Fri 14 February 2014 The rhythm of daily life in the Ethiopian highlands starts early, with the coolness of the refreshing mountain night giving way to the pleasant warming rays of the equatorial sunrise. Children

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Horror of Ethiopian bride abduction shown at Berlin festival

Fri Feb 14, 2014 By Michael Roddy BERLIN (Reuters) – “Angelina Jolie presents” is the first thing on screen in the Ethiopian movie “Difret”, but the true story of a 14-year-old girl’s abduction, rape and trial for killing her abductor

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