March 26, 2014 Doctors Without Borders For the past several weeks, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Ethiopia have been providing assistance to South Sudanese refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their country. It is estimated that more…
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26 March 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk Police have arrested 39 undocumented immigrants and two human traffickers from Ethiopia near the frontier town of Merille in Kenya’s Samburu County. “They will be charged by Wednesday for being in the…
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BBC March 26, 2014 Some half a million Somalis live in the Dadaab refugee camp Kenya has ordered all urban-based Somali refugees to move into designated camps in a bid to end attacks by militant Islamists. Interior Minister Joseph Ole…
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March 26th, 2014 Israel 21c . organization Written by: Abigail Klein Leichman Ethiopian-born Tal Checol came to Israel at age 12. His schooling was spotty, and when he finished the army in 2002, college didn’t seem likely. However, that September…
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Tue, 25 Mar 2014 By The Associated Press Lawmakers in Ethiopia are set to pass a bill that puts homosexuality on a list of offences considered “non-pardonable” under the country’s amnesty law. The measure, endorsed last week by Ethiopia’s Council…
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24 March 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has donated two fully-equipped ambulances to the Ethiopian town of Harar, 523km east of Addis Ababa. “When receiving the ambulances, I recalled those who lost…
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The Guardian South Sudanese children gather at a refugee camp in Gambella, one of the poorest regions in Ethiopia. Photograph: Elissa Jobson for The Guardian By Elissa Jobson Mon 24 March 2014 “We left all our property – our home,…
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By Dan Bloom 24 Mar 2014 The Daily Mail Dame Claire Bertschinger featured in emotional BBC reports in 1984But she said the arrival of a film crew amid such pain made her uneasy’I couldn’t get rid of them fast enough.…
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By DAVID CRARY AP Mar 22, 2014 The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents plunged by 18 percent last year to the lowest level since 1992, due in part to Russia’s ban on adoptions by Americans. Adoptions from…
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March 21, 2014 By Tom Paulson Bill Easterly William Easterly is a leading voice on the aid and development scene that folks seem to either love or hate. Bill Gates is in the latter camp, as this Gates Foundation blog…
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