The New York Times By REZA ASLAN BILL MAHER’s recent rant against Islam has set off a fierce debate about the problem of religious violence, particularly when it comes to Islam. Mr. Maher, who has argued that Islam is unlike other religions (he thinks it’s more“like the Mafia”), recently took umbrage with President Obama’s assertion that the terrorist group
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By Adanech Fessehaye, VOA
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በ ሐራ ተዋሕዶ ከሥልጠናው ተሳታፊዎች ከፍተኛ ተቃውሞ አጋጥሟቸዋል፤ ከሥራ ባልደረቦቻቸውም ጠንካራ ጥያቄ ቀርቦባቸዋል፡፡ ‹‹በሴኩላሪዝም ሰበብ ማዕተብኽን በጥስ ማለት ሃይማኖትን ከማስካድና እንደ ሰቃልያነ አምላክ አይሁድ መስቀሉን ለመቅበር ከመሞከር ተለይቶ አይታይም፡፡ ሃይማኖት፣ ቀኖና ቤተ ክርስቲያን እና ታሪካዊ ትውፊት እንዳይፋለስ የመጠበቅና የማስጠበቅ ሓላፊነት ያለበት ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ በጥንቃቄ ሊከታተለው ይገባል፡፡›› /የሥልጠናው ተሳታፊዎች/ ‹‹ፈትል አንድነት እየሸረቡ ለክርስትና ሕይወት መግለጫ በክርስትና
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Dramatic reductions in water levels could lead to conflict. Will legal and diplomatic policies help countries to cooperate? Ilmas Futehally in Mumbai Guardian Professional The River Nile flows past eleven countries including Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya Photograph: Mohamed Abd el Ghany/Reuters Fifty years ago, Lake Chad in Africa had a surface area of
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PositiveNegatives Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock tell the disturbing story of a young Ethiopian woman abused by her employers in Saudi Arabia. Almaz’s story: You can download a PDF with larger, easy-to-read images Almaz’s story was told to journalist Benjamin Dix and drawn by artist Lindsay Pollock ofPositive Negatives. Almaz’s story was told to journalist
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Fox By Jessica Mulvihill What Is Ebola? Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal hemorrhagic disease that first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks. One outbreak was in Sudan and the other was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a village near the Ebola River — from which the disease got
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Mail & Guardian Africa CHRISTINE MUNGAI Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, Egypt, Ghana tend to top list of nations with most beautiful women. It is all about history and geography, really Profile of Ethiopian beauty modelled by Gete Berhe (photo Jhennelle Townsend/flickr). BELOW Miss Ghana 2012 Carranzer Naa Okailey Shooter, then Cleopatra and Mark Antony (
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By Admassu Belay In recent days, we have been hearing a lot about the Scottish referendum to secede from the UK. Particularly, some of our Oromo politician friends in the diaspora have made it the hot topic of the month. Knowing how ridiculous it is to compare “Oromia” to Scotland, many Ethiopians ignore the matter.
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By Farouk Chothia BBC Africa Many African countries have secessionist movements, partly because their borders were drawn up by colonial powers in the 19th Century. Will the Scottish referendum lead to a greater push for independence on the continent? In one of the few referendums on sovereignty to be held in Africa, in 1961, the
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An Arab-Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab By Frederick Kaufman Sheik Mohammed Al-Amoudi Forget about diamond heists, bank robberies, and drilling into the golden intestines of fort Knox. In this precarious world-historic moment, food has become the most valuable asset of them all – and a billionaire from Ethiopia named Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi is getting
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