)March 11, 2014 The Omo River Valley in Ethiopia (declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1980) was known to Europeans since the 17th …
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Is Egypt Seeking A Military Defense Pact With Eritrea?
Recently, a Yemeni news agency, Alhadath, claimed Egypt is seeking a joint defense agreement with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. According to the report, the defense pact would …
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Brothers fighting brothers: Poor border demarcation developed into military conflict and full-scale war in the late 1990s in which tens of thousands of people were …
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Rome-bound flight ‘forced to proceed’ to Switzerland, airline statement says February 17, 2014 (CBC News) — The co-pilot of a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight surrendered …
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By Tom Freston Shashemane was made possible by a 1948 land grant that accommodated, for free, any Caribbean of African descent who wanted to “come home.” …
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Hunger is once again threatening vast swathes of Africa because of drought and high food prices. The United Nations has estimated that 14 million are …
Read More »Ethiopia: How Foreign Oil Companies Annihilated the Lives of Ordinary African Population in Ogaden Region
February 4, 2014 (CNN iReport) — The Ogaden is a territory comprising the south-eastern portion of the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia and inhabited about …
Read More »Somalis balk at plans for Ethiopian troops
Thousands of Ethiopians will be deployed as part of an African Union peacekeeping mission, worrying many in Somalia February 3, 2014, Nairobi, Kenya (Al Jazeera) – Many …
Read More »Ethiopia Confirmed the Abduction of the two-Key ONLF negotiators
February 1, 2014 (CNN iReport) — Five days later after the Kenyan Police says that it was investigating the Ethiopian Security agent’s abduction of two-key …
Read More »Ethiopia – Land for Sale
Just a few decades ago, Ethiopia was a country defined by its famines, particularly between 1983-1985 when in excess of half a million people …
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