By AFP JUBA- Rebels in South Sudan have launched a large-scale attack on the strategic northern oil hub and state capital of Malakal, an official and aid sources said Saturday. Fierce fighting was reported to be raging inside the town, situated in the country’s oil-rich north, in what appeared to be a major counter-attack against
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An Egypt court has sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to death for a mass prison break in 2011, prompting immediate condemnations from Amnesty International and the Turkish President. The court ruled on Saturday that the sentencing of Morsi and 105 others will be referred to the Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in Egypt, for
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SMNE Press Release WASHINGTON, DC – The Ethiopian National Election is on May 24, 2015, less than two weeks away, but the authoritarian regime, under the control of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) for the last 23 years, appears to be panicking. The political mood of the Ethiopian people is feistier than ever
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Arsenal midfielder Gedion Zelalem (Photo courtesy: David Price/Getty Images) BY Kyle McCarthy FIFA has cleared Arsenal midfielder Gedion Zelalem to feature for the United States and play in the upcoming Under-20 World Cup. U.S. Soccer announced the decision on Wednesday afternoon and ended the protracted saga about Zelalem’s international fate in the process. Zelalem needed
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The man was speaking to a Port Authority Police officer when he jumped, authorities said. By DANIEL HUBBARD An Ethiopian man died Wednesday afternoon after he climbed the New Jersey tower of the George Washington Bridge and jumped into the Hudson River, authorities said. Port Authority Police spokesperson Joe Pentangelo said the man was in
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Photo: Yonathan Tesfaye, spokesman for the Blue Party, ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian opposition groups are accusing the government of harassing their members and carrying out illegal detentions ahead of the May 24 elections. Yonathan Tesfaye, spokesman for the Blue Party, told The Associated Press Wednesday that some party members are being beaten, especially
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BBC – Maj Gen Godefroid Niyombareh announced that a national salvation committee had been set up to run the country. President Nkurunziza is currently in Tanzania meeting other East African leaders to discuss the crisis. His aide dismissed the coup claims as “a joke”. President Nkurunziza has rejected calls to postpone next month’s election. Gen
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The assistant Irrigation for Dams and Nile River Minister and spokesman for the Renaissance Dam file Alaa Yassin said the National Technical Committee (composed of 12 experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia) will receive in mid-May, a technical offer from French and Dutch companies on studies done on the Ethiopian dam. Yassin said Egypt’s role
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By JTA Ethiopian Israelis clash with police on April 30 in Tel Aviv to protest racism. Ethiopian-Israeli activists called for a police officer caught on camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier to be put on trial. At a news conference Sunday in Tel Aviv, the activists also demanded that charges be dropped against protesters arrested in
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Kenya has sent a protest note to Ethiopia after the aborted presidential trip to the United States last month. It was revealed Sunday that the President’s jet turned back after Ethiopian authorities advised the pilot to change the flight course in a bid to avoid the Yemen airspace. It also emerged that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s
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