PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Julie Thelen, 651-269-8755 or julie@womenofwise.org Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment, Inc. Introduces its Program to Assist Professional Refugees with Recertification Services in Minnesota The Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment …
(bbc.co.uk)Manchester United will be without Wayne Rooney when they chase their first win in this season’s Champions League against Basel on Tuesday. Fellow striker Javier Hernandez will also be missing with a dead leg suffered …
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I am Eskinder Nega. To be sure, I am the voice of Eskinder Nega. It is impossible to scare, arrest, muzzle or jail the voices of truth. I can claim that I, the voice of …
Do you work with refugee individuals, families or children in Minnesota? Are you interested in meeting with others to collaborate on issues facing refugees as they resettle in our communities? Join us for as we …
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(By Kim Zetter) An Ethiopian journalist has reportedly fled his country after government authorities interrogated him over a WikiLeaks cable in which he was mentioned. It appears to be the first confirmed case in which …
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(AFP) ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian authorities arrested four opposition members and one journalist suspected of plotting attacks on state security, the government said Thursday. Prominent opposition leader Andualem Arage and journalist Eskinder Nega were among …
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(By Eskinder Nega) Researchers detail ten types of smile. There is the tight-lipped smile which the English particularly fancy. There is the twisted smile of the angered. There is the dealer-smile of the sly. There …
(startribune) Abdirizak Bihi was at a local coffee shop late last week when conversation turned to Mahdi Hassan Ali, the teenager accused of gunning down three men during a botched robbery that shook the security …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam} In 1987 when Time Magazine featured a famine-stricken Ethiopian mother on its cover page, it failed to ask the most important question of all: What should Ethiopians do and not do …
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Upon taking power in 1991, the ruling Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) liquidated non-military assets held by the movement to found a series of companies whose profits would be used as venture capital to rehabilitate …
The Ethiopian government says it has detained 29 people, including several opposition members, across the country on terrorism-related charges. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said Monday that the suspects were involved in terrorist activities. He says …
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By Timo Deresu]- Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to build a tower whose top gets as far as the heavens. If one ignores all the negative intentions of the king …