Emirates247 An Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia committed a suicide after learning of her parent’s death in her home country, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Sabq quoted police as saying the maid, in her 20s, was found dead by her employer in the back garden of his house in the northern town of Khafji. Police
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By Paul O’Keeffe Global Research Detention under spurious charges in Ethiopia is nothing new. With the second highest rate of imprisoned journalists in Africa[1] and arbitrary detention for anyone who openly objects to the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime’s despotic iron fist, the Western backed government in Addis Ababa is a dab hand
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The New York Times For most migrants, packed aboard rickety boats, the journey is a gamble. “They know that they can drown,” said Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations refugee agency in Geneva. “They know that they can die.” Only last week, the Italian authorities said they rescued almost 1,000 such migrants in international waters
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Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A domestic worker was hospitalized with severe bleeding resulting from being raped, according to the medical diagnosis. The Ethiopian woman reportedly fell sick in a house in Jahra governorate, and was rushed to Jahra Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. Medical tests revealed that the maid was subjected to sexual assault which
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By Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali AFP Meriam Yahia (AFP) Khartoum (AFP) – A three-judge panel in Sudan will examine the appeal of a Christian woman sentenced to hang for apostasy, in a case that has drawn international condemnation, her lawyer said Monday. “The judiciary appointed three judges last week to examine the appeal filed in
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By Larry Kilman Secretary General WAN-IFRA | Paris, France Jailed Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega has been awarded the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The award was presented Monday in Turin, Italy, during the opening ceremonies of the 66th World Newspaper Congress, 21st World
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Arab Times KUWAIT CITY: The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal filed by the lawyer of an Ethiopian housemaid who had been sentenced to death for murdering her employer in Jaber Al-Ali. Case files indicate that on Nov 17, 2011, the Ethiopian maid murdered her 25-year-old employer by chopping the latter’s head off a
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam Who is afraid of Eskinder Nega, Reeyout Alemu, Woubshet Taye, Zone Nine bloggers…? The “dean” of independent Ethiopian journalists and blogger extraordinaire, Eskinder Nega, is serving an 18 year sentence for blogging. The late Meles Zenawi personally ordered Eskinder’s arrest and even determined his sentence. Meles Zenawi feared and hated Eskinder Nega
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Sana’a (Anatolia) *****Google Translation From Arabic***** The Ministry of the Interior of Yemen, said on Saturday that security forces found the bodies of Ethiopians in the region bordering Saudi Arabia north of the country. The interior, in a statement on its website, “The police in the area incited the province of argument found (did not
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Sana’a (Anatolia) *****Google Translation From Arabic***** The Ministry of the Interior of Yemen, said on Saturday that security forces found the bodies of Ethiopians in the region bordering Saudi Arabia north of the country. The interior, in a statement on its website, “The police in the area incited the province of argument found (did not
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