Deutsche Welle The Zone 9 bloggers and journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has awarded its International Press Freedom Award to six Ethiopian bloggers who served more than a year in Ethiopia’s notorious prisons. Until the Zone 9 bloggers suddenly appeared on the Addis Ababa web scene under the motto “We Blog Because We
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ADDIS ABABA | By Aaron Maasho Reuters: Floods caused by El Nino could displace more than 100,000 people in Ethiopia, where more than 8 million people are facing a food crisis because of the worst drought since a devastating 1984 famine, the United Nations said on Monday. Failed rains during both the spring and summer
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Arab News Saudi investors have accused some Ethiopian government officials of robbing them of their land and equipment. Mohammed Al-Shehri, who leads a body of investors in the African country, claimed that certain Ethiopian officials falsely accused him and others of criminal activities so that they could confiscate their property. Al-Shehri was quoted as saying
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Mail & Guardian NAIROBI will seek an explanation from Addis Ababa after Ethiopian soldiers killed three Kenyan police officers in foreign territory, Kenyan media reported Sunday. Kenyan security forces including the army have since been deployed to the border following the Friday incursion, the Sunday Nation, the country’s largest circulating, reported. The Ethiopian soldiers are
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By Nick Turse, Naked Capitalism In the shadows of what was once called the “dark continent,” a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design. But look hard enough and — north to south, east to west — you’ll find the fruits of that effort: a network of
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Evidence of the severity of this year’s drought is the unusual presence of camel carcasses, which are normally an extremely hardy animal well-suited to this environment. (Photo: Kyle Degraw) Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: John Graham, Save the Children’s Ethiopia Country Director This is no ordinary year in Ethiopia; this is a ‘code
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Evidence of the severity of this year’s drought is the unusual presence of camel carcasses, which are normally an extremely hardy animal well-suited to this environment. (Photo: Kyle Degraw) Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: John Graham, Save the Children’s Ethiopia Country Director This is no ordinary year in Ethiopia; this is a ‘code
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BBC Ethiopia needs more food aid to avert disaster Ethiopia has rejected an offer from its former foe Eritrea to use its Red Sea ports to transport food aid. Some 14 million Ethiopians are estimated to be at risk from famine next year because of the failure of crucial rains. Ethiopia’s Minister of State for
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By Addis Getachew, AA ADDIS ABABA, Ethopia – The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that climate change is threatening to exacerbate health problems in Ethiopia. The WHO released details in its Climate and Health Country Profile 2015 on Tuesday. “Increased temperatures, intense heat waves, more extreme rainfall, floods and landslides, are expected to intensify
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By Addis Getachew, AA ADDIS ABABA, Ethopia – The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that climate change is threatening to exacerbate health problems in Ethiopia. The WHO released details in its Climate and Health Country Profile 2015 on Tuesday. “Increased temperatures, intense heat waves, more extreme rainfall, floods and landslides, are expected to intensify
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