June 2011

According to a US Census Bureau report, Ethiopia is projected to become the 7th most-populous country in the world by the year 2050. At the current rate of growth, analysts predict that Ethiopia will become the largest country in the world by the year 2150. According to the Unites States census bureau, Ethiopia will more …

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(khaleejtimes) DUBAI – The breakaway region of Sudan, to be known from July 9 as the Republic of Southern Sudan (RoSS), is planning an oil pipeline through Ethiopia as one of its option to circumvent the 2005 oil sharing agreement with Khartoum, South Sudan’s oil minister Dr Luol Deng said in Dubai on Tuesday. Producing …

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(AHN) Members of an Ethiopian rebel group on Tuesday said they had released two United Nations employees to the food agency they work for near the border with Somalia. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said in a statement the transfer of the World Food Programme workers took place on Monday. The ONLF accused Ethiopia …

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(By Eskinder Nega) There is bitter irony to the story of the large Ethiopian Diaspora in the US. No more is it only large in sheer numbers but it’s also progressively more and more successful, impishly enticing the nation’s best and brightest to leave their native land. Two cases illustrate this unfolding saga of immigrants’ …

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ADDIS ABABA, (IRIN) – The 4,200-strong Ethiopian brigade due to be deployed on a proposed peace-keeping mission in Sudan’s troubled Abyei region will focus on civilian protection, according to the Ethiopian government. “Ethiopia will deploy one brigade of troops to Abyei after both Northern and Southern Sudan fully withdraw their forces from the region,” said …

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“Our army is very well experienced in various peacekeeping missions across Africa and is trusted by the Sudanese parties,” Samora told the state ETv. The deployment is part of the agreement signed between Khartoum and Juba last Monday. According to the agreement, the armies of both sides would withdraw from the disputed region ahead of …

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