Julio Etchart/Alamy Claire Provost Elissa Jobson Thu 23 January 2014 At Addis Ababa airport, visitors are greeted by pictures of golden grains, minute ochre-red seeds and a group of men gathered around a giant pancake. Billboards boast: “Teff: the ultimate…
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HRW Aerial view of “Maekelawi” compound, the main federal police investigation center, in Central Addis Ababa, on February 18, 2013. Ethiopia Hopes that Ethiopia’s new leadership would pursue human rights reforms following Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s death in August 2012…
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By: Mark Norris Police announced Wednesday night that they have taken a person of interest into custody in the murder of a 7-Eleven clerk. Colten Jon Moore, 18, has been charged with capital murder in the death of Yosef Tulu.…
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IAN DEITCH JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel on Wednesday said it had foiled an “advanced” al-Qaida plan to carry out a suicide bombing on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and bomb other targets, in what analysts said was the first…
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United Arab Emirates court on Monday sentenced an Emirati housewife to 15 years in jail for torturing her Ethiopian and Filipina maids. The Ethiopian maid died after she was forced to drink pesticide and developed pneumonia due to her infected…
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22 January 2014 , Source: Sudan Tribune (Photo: Samara Scott/U.S. Army Africa) Juba/Addis Ababa The South Sudanese government announced today the cancellation of a regional meeting that was scheduled for Thursday in Juba citing the upcoming African Union (AU) summit later this month.…
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22 January 2014 , By Nick Ashdown, Source: IPS Addis Ababa_ It’s hard to tell if Gelegay Tsegaye is smiling, since a flap of skin covers half his mouth, but his eyes crinkle when he talks and his muffled voice rings…
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JANUARY 22, 2014 0 In a recent article in Times of Malta about gay couples adopting children, I discovered anew how pharisaical people’s ignorance and hypocrisy can be. One sentence reads: “Countries like Ethiopia had been closing doors on adoptions for…
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Addis Ababa, 22 January 2014 (WIC)- Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives pass a new tobacco control proclamation. The proclamation prohibits smoking in public places and it also includes putting enormous taxes on and increasing the price of cigarettes. The…
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January 22, 2014 VOA FILE – President Barack Obama, followed by first lady Michelle Obama, in Tanzania, July 1, 2013 during his week-long trip to Africa. President Barack Obama will host a summit with African leaders in a bid to…
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