War crimes suspects form Kenya poll alliance
Kenya would be forced to act on any arrest warrant issued by the ICC should the pair refuse to attend trial [Reuters] Two Kenyan presidential hopefuls suspected of war crimes have said they intend to join forces in next year’s vote by running on the same ticket. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former cabinet […]
Read More →Karuturi to outsource Ethiopian land to Indian farmers Raghuvir Badrinath /
Karuturi Global, the city-based publicly-held floriculture major and one of the world’s largest exporter of roses which is aggressively rolling out an agriculture business venture in Ethiopia, is looking at outsourcing 20,000 hectares of farm land in the African nation to Indian farmers on a revenue-sharing basis. The company has leased 300,000 hectares in Gambela, […]
Read More →Minneapolis man, 22 year-old Ethiopian, injured in shootout with police
David Embaye, 22A man suspected in a shots fired call was injured overnight after he fired a handgun at officers who were pursuing him on foot while he fled his vehicle. Officers responding to a report of gunfire in the area of 37th Street and Elliot Avenue at about 11 p.m. saw a vehicle leaving […]
Read More →Is Hailemariam Dessaleign the Men of God? By Abenezer Aregawi
It’s very hard and difficult for a person like me to judge somebody as  he is the men of God or not. First, I am not spiritual person though I believe in God. Second, it’s only God that can judge the overall activity or deeds of an individual. I believe on the bible verse written under […]
Read More →Ethiopian Born Actress Arrested for Public Intoxication
Ethiopian Born Actress Arrested for Public Intoxication Former “General Hospital” star Senait Ashenafi is the passenger from hell — TMZ has learned, she was arrested at a Dallas airport for public intoxication last weekend … after allegedly raising a drunken ruckus on board an […]
Read More →New H.I.V. Cases Falling in Some Poor Nations, but Treatment Still Lags
New infections with H.I.V. have dropped by half in the past decade in 25 poor and middle-income countries, many of them in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS, the United Nations said Tuesday. Report by nytimes.com The greatest success has been in preventing mothers from infecting their babies, but focusing testing and treatment on […]
Read More →SABC suffers ‘sense of humour failure’
The SABC is being oversensitive for reportedly choosing not to air an advert depicting President Jacob Zuma and his family, say industry experts. Report By Mail & Guardian “Democracy delivers rough and tumble debates all the time – all citizens, especially politicians, need to be a little more thick skinned,†Professor Anton Harber of the […]
Read More →UN committee calls for ban on female genital mutilation
Landmark resolution calls on member states to condemn FGM and pass laws to protect girls and women ‘from this violence’ Report By Guardian.co.uk Campaigners against female circumcision have scored a major victory with the approval by a United Nations committee of a resolution calling for a global ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). The resolution, […]
Read More →‘Hit the iron when it is hot’ Dagmawi Gudu Kassa
‘Hit the iron when it is hot’  by  Dagmawi Gudu Kassa The saying I used as my title here above seems less known in our recent linguistic history. But as we are witnessing the current history of this world, people of different nations other than Ethiopians, even the Burmese, even Libyans and Syrians and Yemenis who […]
Read More →Why Ethiopian hero’s and nationalists are terrorists for the tyrant regime? By Abenezer Aregawi
“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists, I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I […]
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