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 …
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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 …
Read More »Saudi Ambassador in Ethiopia: Ethiopian authorities stop travel of domestic workers to the Kingdom
On January 27, 2014 in parts of the world ( Throughout ) – rebounds : Said Ahmed Ajlan Saudi Ambassador in Ethiopia that …
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(Financial Times) — I stood in my room in bathing trunks, looking out over the lake 100 metres away, anticipating the feel of the cool …
Read More »S. Sudan cancels IGAD summit as Ethiopia voices concern over Uganda’s role
January 22, 2014 (JUBA/ADDIS ABABA) – The South Sudanese government announced yesterday the cancellation of a regional meeting that was scheduled for Thursday in Juba …
Read More »Egypt may take Nile dam dispute with Ethiopia to UN
Al-Monitor, (By Walaa Hussein) After all attempts to solve the Egyptian-Ethiopian crisis over the Renaissance Dam at the negotiating table ended in failure after a …
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