Woman who was face of Live Aid laments price of fame 30 years on Footage of Birhan Woldu as a starving child was seen around the world and after recovering she joined Sir Bob Geldof on stage at Live 8 concert Birhan Woldu with Sir Bob Geldof Sir Bob Geldof introduces Birhan Woldu to the
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The Washington Post Eritrea’s Daniel Teklehaimanot, wearing the best climber’s dotted jersey, celebrates on the podium of the eighth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 181.5 kilometers (112.8 miles) with start in Rennes and finish in Mur-de-Bretagne, France, Saturday, July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) Eritrea isn’t a big place. The East
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Global development professionals network sustainable development: preparing for 2015 What to expect from the Addis Ababa Financing for Development conference Development economist Owen Barder gives an insight into what the coming five days of plenaries, roundtables and side events will be all about On Monday 13 July, world leaders will gather in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis
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By Andrea Peterson Now we know what it takes to get your hacking tools taken away if you’re a repressive government. It’s not enough to get caught spying on U.S.-based journalists — or even to have the story plastered on the front page of a major U.S. newspaper. But if you get caught doing it
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows
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Author: Gavin Hayman and Charles Kenny Next week in Addis Ababa, finance and development officials from all over the world will be discussing how to pay for the Sustainable Development Goals. The infrastructure goals alone carry a price tag of over $1 trillion a year. The world needs to ensure that money is well spent
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By William Davison, Guardian After more than a year of imprisonment, two Ethiopian women had no idea they were about to be released until a prison loudspeaker informed them they were free to go. “They were kind of stunned. Can you imagine what kind of emotion? They didn’t believe it at first – they thought
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Meretz MK Gilon calls for Netanyahu to fire his representative who threatened family of missing man; “No one should dare to tell us that this is not connected to skin color,” Gal-On says. Avera Mengistu. (photo credit:Courtesy) Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On wrote a scathing rebuke Friday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s representative who threatened the
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