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Made Popular Jun 19 2009
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Many women living in poverty in Ethiopia, India and Kenya, are excluded from government lending schemes, or face prejudice in banking systems. ActionAid’s microcredit schemes are working to help these women form successful businesses.

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Vinod, Shimla
The U.N. humanitarian office said Monday that food shortages in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels following widespread drought in the country. Relief organizations...
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HemRaj Singh, New Delhi
Angelina Jolie, after giving birth to twins and having adopted quite a few others, has now started thinking about the future of her kids. And the first thing that came...
made popular Aug 8 2008
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Desh, Shimla
The Governor of the Somali Hiiran region accuses the Ethiopian troops of genocide as he along with other people tries to escape the region. It was the first time...
made popular Jul 30 2008
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Robb, Derby
I was not surprised this morning, to read that exiled Ethiopian leader Haile Mengistu Miriam has had his life sentence for crimes against humanity and the murder of...
made popular May 28 2008
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Ofentse, Pretoria
The call for Africa to have an agricultural revolution to solve its food security (Leaders, May 10) is timely. But need it be like the green revolution in Asia? That...
made popular May 14 2008
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Matz, Rochester
Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there’s...
made popular May 6 2008
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Toby, Liverpool
Ethiopian troops were accused yesterday of slitting the throats of seven Somali men during a raid on a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 people dead, including the...
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Kieth, Kampala
Ethiopia announced Monday it was severing ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf Arab state of supporting armed opposition groups across the Horn of Africa region. It...
made popular Apr 22 2008
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Paolo, Berne
If U.N. peacekeepers abandon the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a new war could break out between the two Horn of Africa neighbors, U.N. Secretary-General Ban...
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Nick, Liverpool
It has been called a “perfect storm” - a combination of apparently unrelated events that have come together to trigger soaring food prices. Millions of people,...
made popular Apr 9 2008
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Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

An economics professor at a Pennsylvania university said Saturday he supports efforts to spread democracy in his native Ethiopia, but denied backing an alleged coup attempt there that led to the arrests of 35 people by the government.

 
 
Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

An Ethiopian government spokesman says police have arrested 35 people suspected of attempting to overthrow the government.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

Sudan’s president made his sixth foreign trip since his indictment on charges of war crimes in Darfur, traveling Tuesday to Ethiopia despite the international warrant for his arrest.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

An Ethiopian official says Sudan’s president is in Ethiopia for talks but will not face arrest despite a warrant for genocide.

 
 
Mar 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

A cattle-herding tribe in southern Ethiopia has crowned a new king in a secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it has the power to kill unauthorized observers.

 
 
Feb 23 2009 by AP0 Comments

A suicide bomber who attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital was a local who regularly delivered supplies to the soldiers inside, an official said Monday.

 
 
Feb 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

Prosecutors have accused a Nigerian man of trying to swindle nearly $27 million from an account in New York held by Ethiopia’s central bank.

 
 
Feb 18 2009 by AP0 Comments

Meseret Defar of Ethiopia has broken the women’s 5,000-meter indoor world record by more than three seconds at the GE Gala meet.

 
 
Feb 11 2009 by AP0 Comments

Ethiopian police say they have arrested a suspect in the death of a young American diplomat.

 
 
Feb 5 2009 by AP0 Comments

A U.S. Embassy spokesman says an American diplomat has been found dead in his home in the Ethiopian capital.

 
 
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