By Peter B. de Selding PARIS — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat said intentional interference, which accounted for just 5 percent of the disruptions to its fleet in 2010, was responsible for 15 percent of the signal disruptions in 2013. The tripling of intentional interference events, tied in part to the expansion of Eutelsat’s fleet serving
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By Peter B. de Selding PARIS — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat said intentional interference, which accounted for just 5 percent of the disruptions to its fleet in 2010, was responsible for 15 percent of the signal disruptions in 2013. The tripling of intentional interference events, tied in part to the expansion of Eutelsat’s fleet serving
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By APO GENEVA, Switzerland -African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Addis Ababa, in partnership with the Ethiopian government, is expanding its community dialogue facilitators’ training programme on irregular migration from Amhara Regional State to neighbouring Tigray. The training, targeting 140 participants, will cover five of the seven zonal administrations in the southern, eastern, central, north
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By Rebecca Hawkes Television transmissions from channels carried by Arabsat have suffered intentional signal interference from international jammers based in Ethiopia, according to the regional satellite operator. The Saudi-based organisation says it resents the “illegal act” and expressed surprise at this “vandalism”, given there are no Ethiopian or Eritrean channels among the direct-to-home (DTH) satellite
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By Mohamed Sheikh Nor in Mogadishu RFI At least 74 people were killed in fighting near Somalia’s border with Ethiopia on Sunday, according to officials and witnesses. Somali and Ethiopian forces attacked the bases of Al-Shebab islamists near the south-western town of Ato. Local people say that this is the worst fighting they have seen
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Al Jazeera African migrants detained in Libya About 200 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Eritrea, have been detained in Zawiya west of Tripoli as they tried to cross to Europe while hidden in vehicles, Libyan officials have said. “Two hundred migrants, including 160 men and 40 women from Ethiopia and Eritrea, were captured. They were
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gulf-daily-news.com By SANDEEP SINGH GREWAL Stricter laws urged after maid’s ordeal A HOUSEMAID who was kept in a state of “modern-day slavery” for more than a decade highlights the need for stricter domestic worker employment laws, according to rights activists. The story of Ethiopian Seble Abebe Tessm, who was paid less than 18 months’ salary
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Associated Press By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official and witnesses say the bodies of dozens of illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have been found on western beaches after their boat capsized in the Red Sea. Witnesses said Monday that about 50 bodies were found starting Friday and buried
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Egypt Independent Seventy-seven Ethiopians arrived on Saturday at Cairo International Airport on their way to being deported back to their country. They entered Egypt’s Aswan governorate via Sudan and were attempting to sneak into Israel. Security sources at the airport said the deportees include three children. Interrogations proved that they were seeking arrival at Sinai
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By William Davison Bloomberg Ethiopian immigrants wait near Obok, north of Djibouti’s capital, for smugglers’ boats to cross the Gulf of Aden into Yemen. Numbers traveling across the Gulf of Aden have risen this year even after Saudi Arabia, the intended destination for many, began mass deportations of unregistered employees. Photographer: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty
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