Ethiopian democratic forces of political and civic organizations, letter to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations
His Excellency, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations 1st Avenue, 46th Street New York, NY 10017 Dear Your Excellency, Subject: Â Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia First, we, the leadership team of the undersigned Ethiopian civic and political organizations, present our compliments to Your Excellency. It is with deep anguish and regret that we […]
Read More →The Condition of Refugees and Horn of African Migrant Workers in the Middle East!
http://africaim.com/the-condition-of-refugees-and-horn-of-african-migrant-workers-in-the-middle-east/ This is an appeal forwarded to all governments, international organizations and human rights organizations regarding the deplorable human rights violations being committed against Ethiopian, Eritrean, Somali,……etc. Refugees and migrants in the Middle East.  The despicable crimes being committed particularly against the citizens of the above named three nations are horrific. Listening to and […]
Read More →Thorn Trees
Beyond Tendaho, state-owned Sugar Corp. is building 10 refineries, including six for the Kuraz Sugar Project in the South Omo region near Kenya. It’s working too in the Awash area with China National Complete Plant Import & Export Corp., or Complant, on the Kessem sugar project. The $150 million Kessem is funded by state-owned Development […]
Read More →Sugar, Cotton
Sugar, Cotton Of importance too to Ethiopia, whose longtime leader Meles Zenawi died last year, in its drive to transform a nation of 90 million residents into a middle-income country are the cotton farms supplying a growing textiles industry. Cotton plantations in the Middle Awash area run by the Amibara Business Group would also suffer […]
Read More →Saudi Investment by william division
Al-Amoudi has moved into agriculture with plans to export rice, bananas and processed coffee from Ethiopia. Horizon is seeking to double orange production to 50,000 tons a year by investing 432 million birr ($23 million) in Upper Awash Agro. The Tendaho sugar factory 380 kilometers northeast of Addis Ababa that’s financed with a $640 million […]
Read More →Frustrated Efforts
Over the past 14 years, the government has unsuccessfully installed pumps and built canals to try to keep Beseka at bay. Irrigation projects are increasing the flow of water into the lake through the hot springs that feed it, said Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Megersa Olumana Dinka from Haramaya University in Ethiopia, who wrote […]
Read More →Mysterious Lake Threatens Ethiopian Sugar Ambitions
By William Davison – April 24 (Bloomberg) — A saline lake in Ethiopia that’s baffled scientists by its 15-fold growth threatens to spill into the nation’s longest river and damage plans by Africa’s biggest coffee grower to become a commodities powerhouse. Should salt waters contaminate the Awash River, they would risk Ethiopia’s oldest state-owned sugar […]
Read More →International Consortium, To Bring New Treatments for Kala-Azar Patients in East Africa, Receives Funding Boost from European Union
[Geneva, Switzerland, and Nairobi, Kenya – 23 April 2013] – Research and development (R&D) project, AfriCoLeish, is supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7) through a grant of €3 million. The project will run for three years and aims to test new treatments for kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis, or VL) and co-infection of […]
Read More →Public inquiry into the legality of sale of “Nile River Investment Bond†by the Ethiopian Government here in the United States.
We are writing on behalf of Ethiopian-Americans and other Ethiopians residing here in the United States, who have been asking us on their behalf to  inquire about the legality of the sale of bonds for the construction of “Nile River Damâ€Â in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Government here in the united states that has been taking place for the last few years. Most of the […]
Read More →Manhunt over, bombing suspect alive and in custody
WATERTOWN FINAL SHOWDOWN Bombing suspect arrested after found hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass.. Â Location Boat Source: USA TODAY research, Pictometry Jerry Mosemak Kevin Johnson, Donna Leinwand Leger and Gary Strauss, USA TODAY11:29 p.m. EDT April 19, 2013 (Photo: Charles Krupa, Associated Press) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Police closed in suspect at about 7 p.m. […]
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