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4 months, 1 week ago

For increasing number of immigrants, a ‘new life in America’ starts in South Dakota

South Dakota’s increase of foreign-born population over the past 12 years exceeded the national average by three times, according to the American Community Survey Brief of the most recent U.S. Census Bureau report. “I’m really happy with the place where I am, that’s why I stayed here for a very long time.” Weiwei Zhang, state demographer and South Dakota State …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Chinese companies in Ethiopia: A local perspective

China Daily

As a close friend and admirer of the Chinese path to development, I often reflect on its remarkable success. The remarkable journey of Zeyede, from a scholarship recipient in China to a key employee in a Chinese company in Ethiopia, serves as a powerful testament to the positive impact of Chinese companies on Ethiopian development. Zeyede's experiences highlight several key …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Cheptegei completes the dream, Uganda gets ready to follow suit

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: As Joshua Cheptegei made his way back to the room at the Games Village, his face was plastered with a gentle smile. Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda won the men’s 10,000m final on Friday. “It’s the dream of young people to achieve what they want to achieve in life,” said Cheptegei. Cheptegei, who hails from Uganda’s Kapchorwa district, has …

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8 months ago

Children among 16 dead after asylum-seeker boat capsizes off Djibouti: UN

Al Jazeera

At least 28 others are missing after a boat carrying 77 asylum seekers sinks, according to the UN’s migration agency. At least 16 people are dead and 28 others are missing after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsized off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, according to the UN’s migration agency. The accident occurred on Monday …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

New Indian Express

KAMPALA, Uganda: Nearly 400 people have died of starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions in recent months, the national ombudsman said Tuesday, a rare admission of hunger-related deaths by a federal body. Only a small fraction of needy people in Tigray are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

Associated Press

KAMPALA, Uganda — Nearly 400 people have died of starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions in recent months, the national ombudsman said Tuesday, a rare admission of hunger-related deaths by a federal body. The memo urges humanitarian groups to “immediately scale up” their operations, warning that “failure to take swift action now will result in severe food insecurity and …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the U.S. and U.N. demand that Ethiopia’s government …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa begs door-to-door for food along with countless others recovering from a two-year war in northern Ethiopia that starved his people. At a private meeting last week in Ethiopia, U.S. aid officials told international partners that this could be the largest-ever diversion of food aid in any country, aid workers said. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Mumbai Marathon: Ethiopians Hayle Lemi, Anchalem Haymanot Set Course Records to Clinch Titles

News 18

Ethiopian duo of Hayle Lemi and Anchalem Haymanot won the men’s and women’s elite titles with new course records to take home the USD 45,000 winners prize and a course record bonus of USD 15,000 each in the 18th edition of the Tata Mumbai Marathon on Sunday. Lemi won the men’s Marathon Elite race in 2 hours seven minutes and …

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2 years ago

Ethiopians file lawsuit against Meta over hate speech in war

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over hate speech they say was allowed and even promoted on the social media platform amid heated rhetoric over their country’s deadly Tigray conflict. Former Amnesty International human rights researcher Fisseha Tekle is one petitioner in the case filed Wednesday and the other is the son …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopians protest against outsiders amid Tigray conflict

The Independent

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2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopians in US shielded from deportation as war rages at home

Al Jazeera

Ethiopians living in the United States will get work permits and be shielded from deportation for 18 months, the Biden administration has announced, as the African nation is embroiled in a deadly armed conflict. The US Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that it was extending what’s known as Temporary Protected Status to Ethiopians due to the “extraordinary and …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Bodies of 26 Ethiopians found in mass grave in Malawi

Associated Press

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Officials in Malawi have exhumed the bodies of 26 suspected Ethiopian migrants from a mass grave 255 kilometers north of the capital city, Lilongwe. Villagers found the bodies in a forest located near the main road that connects Malawi and Tanzania, which is known as a route traffickers use to transport people to South Africa. Simwaka told …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Ethiopia starts electricity production at Blue Nile mega-dam

Al Jazeera

Sudan and Egypt see the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a threat, but Ethiopia sees it as essential for its development. Ethiopia began producing electricity for the first time from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – a massive hydropower plant on the River Nile that neighbours Sudan and Egypt say will cause severe water shortages downstream. “As you can see, …

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3 years ago

U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — An estimated 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022, according to a United Nations report. “Humanitarian needs remain high in several parts of Ethiopia with at least 20 million people requiring some form of humanitarian assistance until the end of the year,” the report says adding the number of people depending on emergency food assistance …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia’s PM has gone to the battlefront: State-affiliated media

Al Jazeera

Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday promised to lead his country’s army ‘from the battlefront’ after Tigrayan rebels threatened to march on Addis Ababa. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to the front lines to lead his troops in the battle against forces from the northern Tigray region, state-affiliated media reported. Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen Hassen would take charge of …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia’s Abiy urges ‘sacrifices’ as US orders staff out

Al Jazeera

Prime minister says Ethiopians must be ready to make ‘sacrifices’ to ‘salvage’ country as conflict with Tigrayan forces deepens. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told Ethiopians they must be ready to make “sacrifices” to save the country from rebel forces, as the United States ordered non-emergency government employees to leave Ethiopia The yearlong fighting between federal government troops and Tigrayan …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopians in three regions go to polls in delayed election

Al Jazeera

Citizens in three regions are electing 47 representatives in the June vote delayed over ballot and security issues. Ethiopians in three regions where elections had been delayed have headed to the polls to vote for their representatives, with one area also voting on whether to form its own regional state. Conflict broke out in November 2020, pitting federal and allied …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers Ethiopians better alternative to regain health

China Daily

ADDIS ABABA - Berhanu Kedir, 34, is one of the many outpatients who have been receiving the Traditional Chinese Medicine for treatment at the Tirunesh Beijing Hospital on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. "My pain, however, has largely reduced over the last three weeks ever since I started acupuncture therapy," said Kedir, while receiving the acupuncture treatment …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Sifan Hassan wins 5000 metres in first step in treble gold bid

The Hindu

Dutch runner Sifan Hassan took a first, giant step in her bid for an unprecedented Olympic treble when she sprinted to gold in the 5000m on Monday. In Ethiopians Tsegay, Ejgayehu Taye and Senbere Teferi, and Kenya's Obiri and Agnes Tirop, the entry list featured five of the world's 10 fastest ever over the distance. READ : Morocco's Soufiane el-Bakkali …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Crisis in Africa: Future wars could be for water, not oil

India Today

Scientists and think tanks opine that wars of the future will be fought over water. Ethiopia’s primary reservation centres on Egypt’s arguments citing its so-called historical rights to Nile water. As Ethiopia just completed the second stage of the same on July 19, Egypt continues to insist that the rapid filling of the reservoir in upstream Ethiopia could cause drastic …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed gets his Pyrrhic victory

Al Jazeera

Ethiopian PM has prevailed in his first electoral contest, but there is little to celebrate given the country’s dire state, analysts say. In addition to what some of Abiy’s critics say is yet another failure to deliver free and fair elections that fundamentally undermines the government’s legitimacy, the biggest issue at the heart of Ethiopia’s ongoing ructions remains the dispute …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Ethiopia election 2021: Voting underway in Ethiopia amid conflict and a raging humanitarian crisis

CNN

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia CNN — Ethiopians headed to the polls Monday for a controversial election being carried out amid an ongoing conflict and a raging humanitarian crisis in the country’s northern Tigray region. Abiy said he expected the poll to be peaceful, tweeting ahead of the vote that it would be Ethiopia’s “first attempt at free and fair elections.” But …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Why Ethiopia’s elections should be postponed

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia’s twice-deferred national elections are set to commence on June 21 despite the insurmountable challenges threatening to unravel not only the country but the region. The melange of crises facing the country – burgeoning armed uprisings and grinding wars in the Tigray, Oromia, and Benishangul-Gumuz regions; bitter disagreements over the future direction of the country; spiralling ethnic conflict; widespread atrocities …

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For increasing number of immigrants, a ‘new life in America’ starts in South Dakota

Chinese companies in Ethiopia: A local perspective

Cheptegei completes the dream, Uganda gets ready to follow suit

Children among 16 dead after asylum-seeker boat capsizes off Djibouti: UN

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

Mumbai Marathon: Ethiopians Hayle Lemi, Anchalem Haymanot Set Course Records to Clinch Titles

Ethiopians file lawsuit against Meta over hate speech in war

Ethiopians protest against outsiders amid Tigray conflict

Ethiopians in US shielded from deportation as war rages at home

Bodies of 26 Ethiopians found in mass grave in Malawi

Ethiopia starts electricity production at Blue Nile mega-dam

U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022

Ethiopia’s PM has gone to the battlefront: State-affiliated media

Ethiopia’s Abiy urges ‘sacrifices’ as US orders staff out

Ethiopians in three regions go to polls in delayed election

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers Ethiopians better alternative to regain health

Tokyo Olympics: Sifan Hassan wins 5000 metres in first step in treble gold bid

Crisis in Africa: Future wars could be for water, not oil

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed gets his Pyrrhic victory

Ethiopia election 2021: Voting underway in Ethiopia amid conflict and a raging humanitarian crisis

Why Ethiopia’s elections should be postponed