8 Rescued 35 Ethiopian migrants go missing off Yemen coast

Sanaa (AFP) – At least 35 African migrants went missing after their boat capsized in bad weather off southwest Yemen on Monday, a military official said.  Authorities have rescued eight Ethiopians and five Somalis, including a woman, and the body of another Somali has been retrieved from the boat which was carrying 49 people,

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Ethiopian woman gives birth at 56 in Israel

Following years of struggling to conceive, Ethiopian woman gives birth at 56. Former Ethiopian immigrant has baby at 56 at Kaplan Medical Center. (photo credit:Courtesy) A 56-year-old Kiryat Malachi woman gave birth at the age of 56 to her first child — a healthy 3.01-kilo baby boy. The new mother came on aliya from Ethiopia

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Ethiopians in Soweto South Africa appeal for help after looting

Johannesburg – Foreign nationals want the South African government to help them following attacks and looting of their shops in Soweto, they said on Thursday. – Are you there or have you been affected? Send us your eyewitness accounts and photos. “The government must help us. We have been attacked and left with nothing,” said

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Ethiopian maid takes her own life in Saudi Arabia

An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to the police after he saw her body hanging from the window. Paramedics transported her body to hospital where a postmortem examination will be

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Ethiopian maid takes her own life in Saudi Arabia

An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to the police after he saw her body hanging from the window. Paramedics transported her body to hospital where a postmortem examination will be

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Ethiopia strives to control its population growth

Ethiopia will seek to rein in its population growth by bringing its people’s fertility rate down to 2.6 percent in 2020 from 4.1 percent at present, a government official has said. “With 90 million people, Ethiopia is the most populous state in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Berhane Assefa, a family planning service coordinator at the Ministry of

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Ethiopians reentry to the Saudi labor market is subject to finalize new regulations, MOL

Saudi’s Ministry of Labor said today that it has not yet finished a review of regulations streamlining the resumption of Ethiopian workers to enter the Saudi labor market. Undersecretary of the Ministry for International Labor Affairs Dr. Ahmed Al-Fihaid said following a meeting between the Minister of Labor Adel Faqih and visiting Speaker of Ethiopia’s

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Ethiopia is home to the largest Child Sex Trafficking in Africa – U.S.

OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude and, less frequently, prostitution within

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Two Ethiopian women injured in Saudi Arabia

Police were acting on complaint that apartment in Al Qasimiya area of Sharjah housed a number of illegal residents Two women jumped off a balcony on the first level of an apartment complex on Tuesday morning in their desperation to avoid arrest, an official at Sharjah Police told Gulf News. The two women, identified as

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Two Ethiopian women injured in Saudi Arabia

Police were acting on complaint that apartment in Al Qasimiya area of Sharjah housed a number of illegal residents Two women jumped off a balcony on the first level of an apartment complex on Tuesday morning in their desperation to avoid arrest, an official at Sharjah Police told Gulf News. The two women, identified as

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