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Ethiopia is the second oldest Christian land in the world, Muslims make up a little less than 35% of the population, although in certain provinces they predominate, and yet Christians are persecuted in those areas where Muslims are the majority. Why..
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The giggles started when the seventh journalist in a row said that his question was for Egypt’s water and irrigation minister, Mohamed Nasreddin Allam.
The...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Uganda and three other African countries- Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan have been declared free of Polio again. The countries, according to World Health Organisation (WHO)...
made popular Aug 2 2010
The electoral board said Tuesday the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and allied parties had won 534 seats out of 536 declared,...
made popular May 27 2010
My thinking is not one of the best and most people would term it retrogressive, but of course i have a reason why i think holding elections in Africa is just a waste of...
made popular May 27 2010
Ethiopia appeared to solidify its return to a one-party state on Tuesday, as the country’s election board released provisional results showing Prime Minister Meles...
made popular May 26 2010
Sebri Omer emigrated from Ethiopia to the United States as a young man and began to seek the American Dream. He went to college and now has a family and a successful...
made popular May 18 2010
Ethiopian officials say an opposition candidate has been stabbed to death in northern Ethiopia. The candidate’s party says he’d suffered a pattern of...
made popular Mar 3 2010
Britain will give Ethiopia $6.4 million (3.96 million pounds) to feed and treat 80,000 severely malnourished children across the huge Horn of Africa country, the U.N...
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane with 89 people on board has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut airport.
Eyewitnesses say they...
made popular Jan 25 2010
An Ethiopian court sentenced five people to death — including an Ethiopian professor teaching at a U.S. university — and 33 to life in prison Tuesday for being...
made popular Dec 23 2009
In a surprise move, US president Barack Obama today telephoned Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Ethiopian premier Meles Zenawi to seek their support on...
made popular Dec 16 2009
Africa’s lead negotiator at the Copenhagen climate summit says China has promised to support African demands for equitable financing to cope with global warming....
made popular Dec 12 2009
Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday...
made popular Nov 14 2009
In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car...
made popular Nov 5 2009
The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound...
made popular Oct 2 2009
The first time Tadu Gelana’s mother suggested she get married, Tadu thought she was kidding. Only 14 years old, Tadu had not yet finished school or had her first...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Globally there has been an increase in concern over the environmental degradation and the need for greater environmental protection and management.
All ecosystems of...
made popular Sep 7 2009
Ethiopia’s Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with...
made popular Jul 6 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...
made popular Jun 19 2009
The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising...
made popular Sep 1 2009
There are few stories more tragic than the plight of foreign maids in Lebanon. Those familiar with their circumstances now how much they suffer under cruel employers,...
made popular Nov 12 2008
What do you do when you’re an African nation which relies nearly entirely on hydro power for your electricity, and you’re in the middle of a drought? If you’re...
made popular Oct 11 2008
The calendar of this east African nation has just turned 2001 and Ethiopia has completed its millennium celebrations that kicked off 11 September 2007 of the...
made popular Oct 10 2008
Some have been brought back home but with complications that need attention.
made popular Oct 6 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Britain has pledged 26.9 million pounds for drought-hit Ethiopia, where some 9.6 million people are in need of emergency food aid, its embassy said...
made popular Sep 27 2008
The U.N. humanitarian office said Monday that food shortages in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels following widespread drought in the country.
Relief organizations...
made popular Sep 9 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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...
made popular Apr 25 2008
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
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...
made popular Apr 10 2008
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
After an increased interest of neighbouring China in Africa, Russia is on its turn directing its investment plans to Africa. In that regard, Russian ambassador to...
made popular Apr 7 2008
CARBON EMISSIONS have been the talking point of most of the so called developed worlds’ leaders at innumerable environment conferences.
BIOFUEL-The so called...
made popular Feb 26 2008
In the recent clashes, Ethiopian fighter jets have bombarded two of the major airports at Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. It’s a big blow to the Islamic forces...
made popular Dec 26 2006
Yes, we’re smelling this, and now the war is almost here; Somalia is all geared to attack Ethiopia and give spark to Africa’s most expected gruesome war....
made popular Dec 14 2006
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Dr. Berhanu Nega works on his computer in the kitchen of his house in Lewisburg, Pa., Saturday, April 25, 2009. The Ethiopian government has arrested 35 people suspected of a coup attempt allegedly backed by Nega, an Ethiopian economist now teaching at a.
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