ROME (AP) A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to recant her Christian faith arrived Thursday in Italy en route to the United States along with her family, including an infant born in prison. Italian Premier Matteo Renzi welcomed Meriam Ibrahim at Rome’s Ciampino airport, calling it “a day of […]
By William Davison Jul 22 Ethiopia’s birr is overvalued and the country would benefit from a devaluation to boost export revenue and accelerate economic growth, the World Bank said. Reducing the currency’s value by 10 percent in real terms may lead to a 5 percent increase in stalled export earnings and a 2 percent increase
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More and more teens appear to be spending their high school years in a fog. According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, nearly one in five U.S. students availed themselves of a hookah in the last year. The research suggests smoking from a hookah — essentially a water pipe that uses charcoal
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The lawyer for a group of detained Ethiopian bloggers and reporters said Thursday he was filing a civil suit against the country’s police for holding them without charge for nearly three months. The six members of the blogging collective Zone Nine and three journalists were arrested in April and accused by the government of unspecified
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Alemayehu G. Mariam | July 13th, 2014 Last week, the regime in Ethiopia announced its abduction of Andaragatchew Tsgie, General Secretary of the Ethiopian opposition group known as Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy, with smug delight. According to the regime, the “Ethiopian national security service coordinating with its Yemeni counterpart had detained
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Adeola Fayehun on the arrest of naturalized British citizen:Brtish government discrimination between the white and black people
ESAT Special about Andargachew Tsige July 03 2014 Ethiopia
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