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Ethiopia: Grievances Given Deaf Ears

BY FIKADU NIGUSSA The post-1991 shift in political ideology, accompanied by the introduction of federalism, enabled Ethiopia to have regional governments with delimited constitutional authority. Each of these regions has executive organs in charge of implementing policies. The civil service sector is the major constituent of these organs, but is well noted for its inefficiency […]

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In Ethiopia, more land grabs, more indigenous people pushed out

The Christian Science Monitor By Will Davison, Correspondent September 16, 2013 A journalist’s visit to South Omo, where rights groups say police have raped women and otherwise pressured locals to leave an area tagged to become a huge sugar plantation, was quickly curtailed by authorities. HAILEWUHA VILLAGE, SOUTH OMO, ETHIOPIA As night wore on in a remote

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A Renaissance for Ethiopia’s Youth – by Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam

by Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam For the past one-half decade, Ethiopia has been awash with talk of renaissance. There has been a lot of windbagging about a “Renaissance Dam” over the Blue Nile. Our ears nearly fell off listening to the endless gab about an “economic renaissance” with “11 percent” plus annual growth. There has

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Ethiopia to Continue Land Grabbing and Forced Resettlement

By Curtis Kline • Sep 12, 2013 Millions of acres of Ethiopia’s most fertile lands are being offered to foreign investors, often in long-term leases and at bargain prices. At the same time, through its ‘villagization’ program, the Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples in order to free up their land so

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Young leaders travel with Ethiopian Jews on aliyah flight

By David A. Schwartz, Staff Writer2:08 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2013 As the two young Jewish leaders from Palm Beach County accompanied Ethiopian Jews on an aliyah flight to Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport early in the summer, they were struck by the historical significance of the trip. “For most of my life there has been some form of Ethiopian exodus to

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Ethiopia and Syria: International Community’s Contradictory Responses to the Use of Poison Gas*

By Kidane Alemayehu Inconsistency  Regarding Victims of Poison Gas Warfare The international community including the United Nations and members of the UN Security Council are fully engaged with the recent use of banned chemical weapons by Syria’s Bashir Al-Assad regime against its own people. A policy of accountability was witnessed in other cases involving the

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Ethiopians honor flag as TPLF fails – (By Abebe Gellaw)

By Abebe Gellaw Hundreds of Ethiopians residing in and around San Jose, California, raised their historic tricolor for the ninth time last Friday at New City Hall in the presence of Mayor Charles Rufus Reed, Councilman Sam Liccardo and other city officials. But TPLF representatives’ effort to block the historic event unless its coat of

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How the black lions of Ethiopia transformed from palookas to fearsome net bangers

The Horn Times Sport-September 8, 2013 By Getahune Bekele –South Africa. “We want to go back to the drawing board and make very tangible plans that will help us in our preparations ahead of very important matches that will decide our destiny and determine if our dream of qualifying for the world cup is fulfilled.”

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Israelis Bring ART Joy & Love To Ethiopian HIV Orphans

BY ADAM VAN HEERDEN, NOCAMELS · SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 · 1 COMMENTS SOCIAL AWARENESS · TAGGED: AFRICA, AIDS, ART JOY LOVE, ETHIOPIA, HIV, ORPHANS,SOCIAL AWARENESS An Israeli project called ART-Joy-Love (AJL) is providing what it says is a “cocktail of happiness and love” to HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa. The project relies on a multidisciplinary team of volunteers from Israel, ranging from pediatric AIDS experts to medical clowns. Founded in

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