Apr 3, 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk The newly-introduced Islamic banking is booming in Christian-majority Ethiopia, the head of a private bank said. “The Oromia International Bank managed to mobilize 300 million Birr within two months since it introduced…
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03 April 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk The newly-introduced Islamic banking is booming in Christian-majority Ethiopia, the head of a private bank said. “The Oromia International Bank managed to mobilize 300 million Birr within two months since it introduced…
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03 Apirl 2014 By James IPS Ethiopians waiting inside a hospital in Addis Ababa on the weekend. The capital has only four stationary MRI scanners, providing services to 30 government- and private-run hospitals. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS ADDIS ABABA, Apr 3 2014…
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02/04/2014 euractiv Gay Pride marchers. South Africa, October 2013. [Niko Knigge/Flickr] Imprisoning gays and lesbians for their sexuality is a “disgrace” that should disqualify offending countries from EU aid, the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, told a joint…
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April 2, 2014 BBC The condoms will be given out for free at universities and colleges South Africa’s government will distribute coloured and flavoured condoms among students to end “condom fatigue”, the health minister has said. Aaron Motsoaledi’s comments came…
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01 April 2014 The Huffington Post By Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall Around the world 100million older people have to live on less than 60p a day. Many of them support and care for their grandchildren. The grandparents often go hungry so…
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01 April 2014 BBC Abubakar Shariff Ahmed was known by his nickname Makaburi meaning “Graveyard” in Swahili A radical Muslim cleric in Kenya, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, has been shot dead outside the coastal city of Mombasa, police and witnesses say.…
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01 April 2014 Boston Globe By Maria Sacchetti US immigration officials released a gay Ethiopian man without bail on Monday, two weeks after the Globe reported that he was facing deportation to a nation in Africa where same-sex conduct could…
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01 April 2014 Boston Globe By Maria Sacchetti US immigration officials released a gay Ethiopian man without bail on Monday, two weeks after the Globe reported that he was facing deportation to a nation in Africa where same-sex conduct could…
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United Nations World Food Programme (Rome) Juba, 31 March 2014 — Alarmed at the impact of ongoing violence in South Sudan, the heads of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) arrived here today on a…
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