By Steve Baragona August 23, 2013 (VOA News) — A polio outbreak on the Horn of Africa has spread to Ethiopia. An 18-month-old child in the Warder district of Ethiopia is the country’s first polio case since 2008. Warder district is just across the border from Somalia, where 108 polio cases have been reported this […]
Aug 23, 2013 (The Economist) — ETHIOPIA has Africa’s last big telecoms monopoly. The absence of competition has seen a country of more than 80m lag badly behind the rest of the continent in an industry that has generally burgeoned alongside economic growth. Mobile-phone penetration, which averages 70% of the population elsewhere in Africa, is
The Horn Times Breaking News by Getahune Bekele-South Africa According to eye witnesses whom the Horn Times spoke to, this pictured police officer first picked the two harmless bombs but a colleague shouted at him to place them back under an Isuzu van reg. number, code 3-73189. And there began the live show of shame
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A Seattle Times story updates the public about Larry and Carri Williams, the couple on trial in Skagit County Superior Court, charged with homicide by abuse, manslaughter and child assault in the death of their adopted daughter. The girl was Ethiopian and the trial is being closely watched by Ethiopians in America and Seattle. Ethiopia
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San Jose, California – To celebrate the Ethiopian New Year and to honor the Ethiopian flag, the leaders and members of the Ethiopian American Council (EAC) are encouraging all Ethiopians, Ethiopian-Americans, and their friends and families to join them at the Ninth Annual Ceremonial Ethiopian Flag Raising at New City Hall of San Jose on
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Are the government’s large-scale developments in southern Ethiopia forcing local populations to move with the times or just move out the way? 21 AUGUST 2013 | BY WILLIAM DAVISON Kangaton, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia: A short stroll away from the bloated Omo River in Ethiopia’s far south, a new type of settlement
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— US soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the largest such leak in the country’s history. In a brief hearing, the military judge didn’t offer any explanation for the sentence. Manning stood at attention
BY FASIL GIRMA ARAGAW GUEST COLUMN Ethiopian journalists have come to expect the worst from our government. One of the world’s most hostile governments to an independent press, it has jailed friends and colleagues, forced them to leave the country and unjustly branded them as terrorists or enemies of the state for doing their jobs.
By Terrence Lyons A year after Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn came to power following the death of longtime leader Meles Zenawi in August 2012, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) remains firmly in control. It has continued to govern through a collective leadership that includes three deputy prime ministers from the Amhara,
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By MATT BRADLEY And TAMER EL-GHOBASHY CONNECT CAIRO—An Egyptian court Wednesday ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak, ushering in yet another potential flash point of anger in a country already reeling from unprecedented political violence. A judge in Cairo said there were no legal grounds to hold the 85-year-old former autocrat under allegations
