Barack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia! – By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Warning! Stop! Do not read further if you can’t handle the truth about Barack Obama. “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.” “I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.” Bite...
View ArticleMelinda Gates Fetches Water and Washes Dishes in Malawi
Melinda Gates travelled to Malawi with the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann and visited several communities, where her focus was on the empowerment of...
View ArticleTwo Ethiopians among beheaded in Saudi ‘campaign of death’
The number of Saudis and foreigners put to death so far in 2015 is up 131 percent on the figure for all of 2014, according to AFP tallies. File photo – Image by: Gallo Images/Thinkstock AFP | 05...
View ArticleMore than 100 Somali refugees arrive home in Mogadishu from Kenya
© UNHCR/A.Nasrullah By Alexandra Strand Holm Somali refugees board a plane to return to Mogadishu from Dadaab camp in Kenya. MOGADISHU, Aug 5 (UNHCR) –More than 100 Somali refugees from Kenya flew...
View ArticleObama’s True Legacy: Propping Up Dictators
Mike Gonzalez , CONTRIBUTOR Forbes By praising Ethiopia’s repressive regime for being “democratically elected” last week, President Obama was driving home once again something that should be abundantly...
View ArticleVideo – Million People Facing Hunger hunger in Afar Region
Million People Facing Hunger hunger in Afar Region
View ArticleIs Eritrea Foe or Friend to Ethiopia?
Rosa Abadir rosabadir@yahoo.com Eritrean involvement in Ethiopian political condition has been received suspicious look by some Ethiopians. Nevertheless, there are millions of Ethiopians on the...
View ArticleUS Envoy Warns Burundi Attacks Risk a New Cycle of Violence
UNITED NATIONS Aug 7, 2015 By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press The United States’ U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power warned Friday that “horrible attacks” on both sides in Burundi risk creating “a cycle...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Peace Talks Hit Turbulence on First Day
The mediation team for South Sudan, IGAD-Plus, meets in Addis Ababa to hammer out details of a compromise peace deal for the young nation. Karin Zeitvogel South Sudan’s warring sides got down to the...
View ArticleU.S. Still Leads China in Leadership Approval in Africa (Gallup)
Gallup / WORLD August 6, 2015 by Magali Rheault and Justin McCarthy This article is part of a series on well-being and development trends in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on 12 nations that Gallup has...
View ArticleISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters
UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are ‘peddled like barrels of petrol’ The women refused to practice ‘sexual jihad’, a Kurdish official has claimed He also claimed money, distribution of women has...
View ArticleAndargachew Tsige a no show on three court hearings
Court demands explanation from prison administration The Federal High Court on Wednesday has issued a summon for head of the Federal Prison Administration to appear before court and explain why it...
View ArticleToronto Fundraising to Support the Families of Ethiopian Political Prisoners
Ethiopian in Toronto organized a Fundraising event to Support the Families of Ethiopian Political Prisoners. The fundraising is next week on Sunday August 16, 2015.
View ArticleRwanda Amavubi to face off with Ethiopia Walia Ibex in an International Friendly
Rwanda’s Amavubi will face off with Ethiopia’s Walia ibex in a Fifa international friendly game scheduled to be played in Kigali on August 28, 2015 www.soka25east.com can confirm. The match will be...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese top rebel commander downplays fears of disintegration within...
August 10, 2015 (JUBA) – The overall commander of the armed forces allied to the former vice president Riek Machar in Bahr el Ghazal region, has downplayed possibility of disintegration of the...
View ArticleLack of rain in parts of Ethiopia causing cattle deaths; food being stockpiled
By ELIAS MESERET Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Seasonal rains have failed to materialize in some parts of Ethiopia, causing deaths of many cattle and other animals, officials and...
View ArticleWalking into danger: migrants still head to Yemen
By Katie Riordan / IRIN A long walk to work HARGEISA, 11 August 2015 (IRIN) – Qader and Abdi are two weeks into their journey. Carrying only one empty plastic water bottle each, flattened, with no...
View ArticleERITREA – PATHS OUT OF ISOLATION
AUG 13TH, 2015 Annette Weber Senior Fellow of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. The content of this [report/study/article/publication…] does not reflect the official opinion...
View ArticleAn asylum seeker man survives flight to Sweden in plane hold
An asylum seeker has been discovered alive in the hold of a plane that landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport on Friday morning, after smuggling himself on to an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis...
View ArticleCuba US: John Kerry reopens Havana embassy on historic trip
BBC News The US has reopened its embassy in Cuba more than 54 years after it was closed, in a symbolic step signalling the warming of ties between both countries. John Kerry, the first US Secretary of...
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