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Mr Negasso, in power between 1995 and 2001, said he had joined the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) to try to unite Ethiopia. Analysts say his defection and that of ex-Defence Minister Seye Abraha are likely to boost the UDJ's popularity. But...
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It would take US$8.8 billion annually over several years to halve the number of malnourished children worldwide, currently at some 178 million, says Save the Children in a new eight-point action plan . In its report, Hungry for change, Save the Children...
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What do an American football team, the Chicago Bears, and Ethiopia have in common? It’s Michael McCaskey, the current chairman of the board and CEO of the team in the United States National Football League. McCaskey, who worked in Ethiopia in the 1960s,...
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The government of the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland has been sharply criticized by a U.S. lawmaker, who says Puntland authorities are routinely arresting, harassing, torturing, and handing over men from the neighboring Ogaden region to Ethiopian...
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In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland. "Why Attractive?" reads one glossy poster with photos of green fields and a map outlining swaths of...
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The federal court of Ethiopia on Thursday handed down guilty verdict on 27 retired and serving Army officers who were accused of conspiring coup plot earlier on the year. "The evidences and witness brought by prosecutors against the stated 27 defendants...
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Preparing Ethiopian food is a labor of love. Spices are toasted, ground, blended into sauces and cooked with onions, meat or vegetables in pots that can steam for hours before the food is consumed between bits of tangy, spongy crepes that you eat with...
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Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million...
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Africa’s lead negotiator to climate talks, Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi on Tuesday said that continent’s demands from the rich nations on the concerns of climate change is unlikely to be met in next month’s decisive climate summit in Copenhagen....
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Ethiopia was in the news a while ago for sending troops to Somalia to help prop up the provisional western-backed government there. Eventually they withdrew but it seems that rebel Somalis in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia are now taking the battle...
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