The Ethiopian government says it plans to treat marathoner Feyisa Lilesa as a hero, not a traitor, when he returns home after making a protesting hand gesture at the Olympics.
Activists campaigning to bring Ethiopia’s Jews to Israel inched closer to their goal during a 21-hour marathon budget approval last Friday, but they are waiting to see what will happen before breaking out the champagne.
Israeli activists campaigning to bring the Falash Mura (Ethiopians who claim Jewish lineage) from Ethiopia to Israel have been receiving recently reports about the severe distress facing those who remain in transit camps in Gondar following escalating conflicts in the region.
Contents: Heavy fighting along Eritrea-Ethiopia border raises fears of war; Generational history of Ethiopia and Eritrea
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development has announced $97 million dollars in emergency assistance to Ethiopia to combat the devastating effects of a drought brought on by the El Niño climate phenomenon.
Border security is becoming a big issue everywhere, including Tanzania, which finds itself overwhelmed by Ethiopians fleeing their own drought-ravaged country.
A memo from the infamously authoritarian government of Eritrea in east Africa — the Department of Religious Affairs, to be specific — is sending “ripples of shock throughout the country,” according to Ventures Africa, as it orders men to marry at least two wives or face life imprisonment with hard labor.
AFP relates the remarkable statistic that almost 100,000 refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia flowed into Yemen last year, often dying en route, despite a brutal civil war that mushroomed into an international conflict. As bad as things are in Yemen, Ethiopians and Somalis are still willing to risk death to emigrate there.
What has he got in his pocket? President Barack Obama showed the items that he says he always carries in his pocket, and which were given to him by people he has met in his political career.
Contents: Terror groups compete for credit for Mali hotel attack; Mali hotel terror attack highlights al-Qaeda’s strength in Africa
Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin is lashing out at Lexington Herald-Leader’s political cartoonist Joel Pett.
Ethiopia established its own space program with two enormous telescopes on top of Mount Entoto, which reaches 10,500 feet high. It is the first such program in East Africa, but Ethiopia is one of the world’s poorest countries.
Human rights group are challenging President Barack Obama following his description of Ethiopia’s government as “democratically elected.”
An American dentist from Minnesota has allegedly killed an iconic Zimbabwean lion named Cecil with a bow and arrow in a trophy hunt. The Internet is outraged, perhaps rightly so. It is telling, however, that the deaths of thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans, and the starvation and displacement of millions, have failed to rouse anything like the same level of anger.
President Obama has begun a two-day visit of Ethiopia, the first sitting United States President to visit the East African country.
Reuters reports that a demonstration against alleged police brutality and racism by Ethiopian immigrants turned violent in Jerusalem on Thursday, leading to at least 13 injuries. Two police officers and five protesters were hurt seriously enough to require hospital attention.
“Ethiopian demonstrators hurled stones and scuffled with police during a rally by thousands in the capital on Wednesday after a video showed dozens of compatriots being shot and beheaded by Islamic State militants in Libya,” according to eyewitnesses quoted by Reuters.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has released a new video showing terrorists beheading 15 men on the beaches of Libya’s Barka Province and 15 other men in the desert in the southern Fazzan province.
Hezbollah backs down from war with Israel; Clashes between Nusra front and Free Syrian Army spreading in Syria; Jundallah takes credit for massive mosque attack in Pakistan; Egypt’s military begins ‘wide military offensives’ in North Sinai; Greece clashes with eurogroup ‘No more bailout, no more troika!’; In Denmark you are now paid to take out a mortgage
