By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s ruling party wrapped up its campaign for Sunday’s election with a thunderous rally of fireworks and mock guerrilla battles, paving the way for Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to secure a landslide victory in the Horn of Africa giant. About 30,000 government supporters waved party flags and sang
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By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said. Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia in Hajja province, a stronghold of the Iran-allied Houthi
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By Marthe van der Wolf, VOA ADDIS ABABA — The only international observers during Ethiopia’s elections Sunday will be from the African Union, with opposition parties already feeling the AU observers are not demanding enough in their criticism of Ethiopia’s election process, which is dominated by the ruling party. Nine long-term AU observers (LTOs) arrived
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Gayle Smith, President Barack Obama’s nominee to run the U.S. Agency for International Development, boasts a glowing list of credentials after spending two decades in Africa as an aid worker and award-winning journalist. But to critics, she is a sympathizer of repressive regimes in Africa who has done little to improve living conditions for people
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Absorption Ministry puts kibosh on Interior Ministry’s permit to allow infantrymen to bring relatives to Israel By GEDALYAH REBACK Sergeant Chalacho Mekunan receives a citation for service during Operation Protective Edge from southern commander Sami Turgeman this past February (IDF Spokesperson’s office) Two Israeli soldiers born in Ethiopia are accusing the state of dragging its
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Blanket US support for the Ethiopian regime risks dismantling the country’s already beleaguered opposition By Awol Allo It was only two months ago during the Israeli election that the White House was scrambling to convince the American public that the United States does not intervene in the electoral processes of other democracies. “This administration goes
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Blanket US support for the Ethiopian regime risks dismantling the country’s already beleaguered opposition By Awol Allo It was only two months ago during the Israeli election that the White House was scrambling to convince the American public that the United States does not intervene in the electoral processes of other democracies. “This administration goes
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On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv to protest police brutality and discrimination against the Ethiopian-Israeli community. Two weeks ago, protests by Israel’s Ethiopian minority against police brutality and discrimination in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv drew international attention. While the protests were sparked by a video of an Ethiopian soldier in uniform being
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The leader of Ethiopia’s newest opposition party hopes discontent among urban youth will win him support in a weekend election that could otherwise be a clean sweep for the ruling party in Africa’s most populous nation after Nigeria. Over 36 million people have registered for the May 24
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