Police lead Natnael Feleke (center right) and fellow blogger Atnaf Berahane (center left) to court. Photo courtesy of Trial Tracker Blog. Five members of Ethiopia’s Zone9 blogging collective expect to learn their fate this Wednesday, August 19, when a panel of three judges will meet at Addis Ababa’s Lideta High Court to rule on whether
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By Adie Vanessa Offiong Ethiopia’s first mosque undergoing restoration Ethiopia is a country full of history and stories. These stories connect the ancient civilisation to several other destinations across the world. One such is its link with Islam and Mecca. Ethiopians, according to the tour guide, Temesgen Bitewlign, were very receptive of Muslims from Mecca,
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By Nahom Mola When all is said and done, President Obama’s speech to the Kenyan people delivered at the Safaricom Arena on July 26th (Obama’s Nairobi speech), was perhaps the highlight of his historic trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, the two East African countries he visited back-to-back last month. Obama’s Kenya visit will be particularly
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An Ansarullah security official said on Friday that the country’s intelligence and popular forces have arrested a Saudi-linked group of Ethiopian men who attempted to sneak into the capital, Sana’a, in women’s clothing to carry out terrorist attacks. “The Yemeni intelligence forces alongside the popular committees identified and arrested a terrorist band affiliated to the
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AFP Karim Lebhour The bars and cafes are full and lively in the northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle, but no longer smoke-filled, with the strict implementation of a smoking ban in public places Mekelle (Ethiopia) (AFP) – The bars and cafes are full and lively in the northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle — but they
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AFP Karim Lebhour The bars and cafes are full and lively in the northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle, but no longer smoke-filled, with the strict implementation of a smoking ban in public places Mekelle (Ethiopia) (AFP) – The bars and cafes are full and lively in the northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle — but they
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An asylum seeker has been discovered alive in the hold of a plane that landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport on Friday morning, after smuggling himself on to an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa. The stowaway was found after the plane landed in Sweden just before 7am. The flight time for journeys between Addis Ababa
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Ethiopia’s late dictator was a complex and sophisticated leader — a self-taught ex-guerrilla who brought his people economic growth and repression. BY BARRY MALONE I once asked Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Aug. 20 from an unspecified illness at age 57, whether he was a dictator. He grinned and then, stopping, just
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By Abadir M. Ibrahim Something was awry at a hearing of the High Court of Ethiopia on July 6, 2015. As the much anticipated conviction of Muslim civil society leaders (Abubaker Ahmed and 17 others) was underway, it was clear that this was no ordinary trial. Security was beefed up, the public gallery was crowded
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A joint Ethiopian and Djibouti contingent under the AMISOM peacekeeping force has dislodged al-Shabaab militants from the Somali town of Algen, APA can report on Wednesday.Algen city has been a stronghold of the militants since 2005. Residents of the town were quoted as saying that they had been treated inhumanly by Shabaab fighters. When al-Shabaab
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