Community rallies around Ethiopian woman facing deportation

By Bianca Hall Sydney Morning Herald Anglican church parishioners in Melbourne’s inner south have launched a desperate campaign to stop the deportation of Ethiopian woman Yeshiwork Abrha​, who fears she will be killed if the federal government sends her home. Last week, The Age reported on Ms Yeshiwork’s desperate bid to stay in Australia. She

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Saudi Arabia executes Ethiopians for murder

AFP: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Wednesday put to death two Ethiopians and a Saudi convicted of murder, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 113. The Ethiopians, Argawi Aldo Heilan Meriam and Hadish Zel Alam, had been convicted of beating a fellow countryman to death and robbing him, the Interior Ministry said

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Saudi Arabia executes Ethiopians for murder

AFP: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Wednesday put to death two Ethiopians and a Saudi convicted of murder, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 113. The Ethiopians, Argawi Aldo Heilan Meriam and Hadish Zel Alam, had been convicted of beating a fellow countryman to death and robbing him, the Interior Ministry said

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Lawsuit reveals extent of Ethiopian hacking amid Obama visit

By Jack Gillum | AP WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama faces pressure to discuss human rights in his first official visit to Ethiopia this weekend, a unique lawsuit back home is challenging whether the African country can spy on an American by turning his computer into a giant recording device. The federal case alleges

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Junk Journalism Verses Real journalism: Ze-Habesha or Ay-Habesha Media?

By Teshome Debalke The tragedy of the State of Media and journalism in Ethiopia is known as TPLFs propaganda mill factory that transmits in multiple languages in the wishes of TPLF warlords. The self-proclaimed Tigray people representative led Apartheid regime of the Federal ethnic Nation and Nationality of Ethiopia is feeding our people lookalike news,

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Junk Journalism Verses Real journalism: Ze-Habesha or Ay-Habesha Media?

By Teshome Debalke The tragedy of the State of Media and journalism in Ethiopia is known as TPLFs propaganda mill factory that transmits in multiple languages in the wishes of TPLF warlords. The self-proclaimed Tigray people representative led Apartheid regime of the Federal ethnic Nation and Nationality of Ethiopia is feeding our people lookalike news,

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Bodies of 100 migrants found off Libyan coast

As many as 100 bodies, presumably of migrants, have been found washed up on the beach near the Libyan city of Tajoura, a migrant rights group said on Tuesday. Migrant Report stated that the spokesman of Tripoli’s anti-immigration department confirmed the bodies are believed to be the victims of a shipwreck off Tajoura, which is

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What it took for Ethiopia to lose access to hacking tools it used against journalists in the U.S.

By Andrea Peterson   Now we know what it takes to get your hacking tools taken away if you’re a repressive government. It’s not enough to get caught spying on U.S.-based journalists — or even to have the story plastered on the front page of a major U.S. newspaper. But if you get caught doing it

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‘Affair of missing Ethiopian-Israeli in Gaza smells of racism’

Meretz MK Gilon calls for Netanyahu to fire his representative who threatened family of missing man; “No one should dare to tell us that this is not connected to skin color,” Gal-On says. Avera Mengistu. (photo credit:Courtesy) Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On wrote a scathing rebuke Friday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s representative who threatened the

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Egypt deports 45 Ethiopians fleeing war-torn Libya

CAIRO: Egypt has deported 45 Ethiopians who arrived in Cairo after fleeing the war-torn Libya, Youm7 reported Thursday. The Ethiopians reportedly arrived on board of a private plane coming from Tobruk airport after coordination with Egyptian authorities. Egyptian officials and diplomats from the Ethiopian embassy in Cairo received the Ethiopian returnees, who headed to Addis

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