August 2011

PHOENIX – Two of three suspects arrested in a fake bomb scheme will be released from jail Wednesday night, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Luwiza Daman and Shullu Gorado were accused of trying to sneak a fake bomb past security at Sky Harbor Airport. Once released, the African refugees will be turned over …

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Camps and hospitals are struggling to cope with the outbreak as more than 180 people die from disease A malnourished and dehydrated child lies on a bed in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. Photograph: Ho/Reuters (The Guardian)Outbreaks of measles and cholera are striking down Somali children already weakened by hunger, resulting in dozens of new fatalities. …

Somali refugees fight cholera and measles as hunger spreads Read More »

Green Prophet has followed the Renaissance Dam project for months, on which another Ethiopian dam project sheds some light. On its list of dams to be constructed, Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam project (formerly known as the Grand Millennium Dam) has drawn passionate commentary to our site. Despite the country’s inability to afford the dam and its …

UNESCO Urges Ethiopia To Halt Gibe III Dam Read More »

If both President Shimon Peres and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin were out of the country, Molla could serve as Israel’s president. MK Shlomo Molla (Kadima) was elected deputy Knesset speaker on Wednesday, and will become the first Ethiopian to fill the role when the Knesset summer recess ends in late October. If both President Shimon …

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(irinnews) ADDIS ABABA, 5 August 2011 (IRIN) – More and more Eritrean refugees, mostly educated young men, continue to arrive in Ethiopia, with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, expressing concern over the rising numbers. “Most say they left their country [to avoid] a prolonged military conscription, but they also say they want to join their …

ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: “Silent crisis” as more Eritreans flee Read More »

(Photo: File) By Abebe Gellaw The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has awarded its most prestigious fellowship to Birtukan Mideksa in recognition of her commitment for the advancement of freedom and her potential to bring about democratic change in Ethiopia, Addis Voice has learnt. The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship program, named in honor of the two …

Birtukan awarded Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Read More »

Anna Zacharias (The National) RAS AL KHAIMAH // A housemaid was yesterday sentenced to death by firing squad for stabbing her employer 117 times and killing their 2-year-old daughter in a blaze. The Court of First Instance in Ras Al Khaimah heard the woman, 23, from Ethiopia, had worked for the family for only 10 …

RAK maid sentenced to death in double murder case Read More »

(CNN) — Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed Tuesday in Sudan’s contested region of Abyei when a landmine exploded during a patrol, the United Nations said. Seven more persons were injured, the U.N. said. The peacekeepers, all Ethiopians, were part of the U.N. Interim Security Force for Abyei and were patrolling Mabok, southeast of the …

Four UN peacekeepers (Ethiopians) killed, 7 injured by landmine in Abyei Read More »

em>Eritrea’s not known for much except good coffee and an abiding hatred of Ethiopia. So it caught the world by surprise when the UN accused the tiny country of planning and organising a massive terror attack on Addis Ababa, the capital of the African Union and of the hated Ethiopia. But given President Afwerki’s parlous …

Eritrea: Africa’s North Korea, complete with unhinged president Read More »

By Eskinder Nega Book publishing had its golden age in the ’60s and ’70s. So did theater. The singular genius of Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, whose magnificent adaptations of Shakespearean plays are arguably the best of their kind anywhere in the world, inspired and to a large extent sustained a rare, lively world of African theater. It …

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