East African sex workers tell of being sold into sex slavery in Singapore
Tanya’s friend, “Susan†from Ethiopia, said she had a similar experience, arriving and being taken to another building, where she was put to work as a sex worker. For both girls, they struggled to survive, being forced to have sex with as many as 8 clients a day. SINGAPORE: She was forced to be a […]
Read More →Syria continues to see violence toward media workers
Man holding a camera. Reporters Without Borders condemns today’s bombing of the state TV station’s headquarters in the high-security district of Omeyyades in Damascus. The bomb exploded on the third floor of the building, where the management offices are located. The exact number of casualties and the positions they held are not known. The station did […]
Read More →Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader rejects US sanctions
LAGOS: The head of Nigeria’s Islamist militant group Boko Haram said in an online video that he dismissed recent United States sanctions that have been placed against the group. The video posted on YouTube shows Abubakar Shekau with a Kalashnikov assault rifle behind him. In the video, posted late Saturday, he speaks in the Hausa […]
Read More →His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Tewodros II (Abba Tatek)
Emperor Tewodros II was born Kassa Haile Giorgis, (often refered to as Kassa Hailu), the son of a minor nobleman of Qwara district of Dembia, a region of western Beghemider province bordering on the Sudan. His actual place of birth was in the small villiage of Dawa, located about 12 kilometers from the city of […]
Read More →11-year-old girl married to 40-year-old man
By Samuel Burke Before their wedding ceremony begins in rural Afghanistan, a 40-year-old man sits to be photographed with his 11-year-old bride. The girl tells the photographer that she is sad to be engaged because she had hoped to become a teacher. Her favorite class was Dari, the local language, before she had to leave her […]
Read More →South Africa income inequality highest in the world
A new report published by the World Bank has revealed that South Africa is facing a growing divide in income inequality since the fall of Apartheid. Gini coefficient, an international measure of income inequality, revealed the country’s level of inequality was the highest in the world at 0.70 in 2008, the World Bank said. “The […]
Read More →press release
press release Nairobi — An appeals court in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, has reduced a 14-year prison sentence given to journalist Reeyot Alemu in January to five years and dropped most of the terrorism charges against her, according to local journalists. Reeyot, a columnist for the independent weekly Feteh, was sentenced in January and […]
Read More →Jailed Ethiopia Christians deported from Saudi Arabia for praying
CAIRO: At least 35 Christians from Ethiopia were deported by Saudi Arabia last week after having been detained for over 7 months for reportedly praying in the privacy of their own homes. International Christian Concern (ICC) wrote in a statement published on their website that “Saudi Arabia deported the last of the 35 Ethiopian Christians […]
Read More →Scottish charity Sciaf praises African drought response
The drought caused people to flee the worst-affected areas, including this Somali man who travelled to Kenya A Scottish charity has said it raised more than £1m from Scotland to tackle last year’s drought in the Horn and East of Africa. The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (Sciaf) described the drought as the worst in the region […]
Read More →Ethiopia: Has Meles Gone AWOL?
By ALEMAYEHU G.MARIAM (Prof.)  What happens when a “prime minister†goes AWOL? That is, absent without constitutional leave of absence.  Dictator Meles Zenawi has disappeared from public view for several weeks now. He was last seen in public on June 19 at the G20 Summit in Mexico. His disappearing act has provided more grist for […]
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