Migrant crisis: Hundreds dead after capsize, say survivors
Hundreds of migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, survivors have told the BBC – although there is no official confirmation. The 41 survivors say they were transferred to...
View ArticleEthiopia -‘Unbridled violence’ in Gambella leaves Ethiopia searching for...
Why did a group of South Sudanese people cross the border into western Ethiopia and start shooting mothers and abducting their children? The South Sudanese attackers arrived on foot before dawn. In the...
View ArticleEthiopia army ‘locates children abducted from Gambella’-bbc
Ethiopia’s army has surrounded the area in neighbouring South Sudan where it believes more than 100 abducted Ethiopian children are being held, local media report. The children were taken in a...
View ArticleDiplomatic row as Tanzania dumps 74 freed Ethiopian convicts at Kenyan border
Mombasa – A diplomatic row between Kenya and Tanzania may be brewing after Tanzania released 74 Ethiopians who had just finished their jail sentences in the country and dropped them at the Kenyan...
View ArticleEuropean Union calls for return of abducted Ethiopian children
The Delegation of the European Union in South Sudan has called for the return of children abducted from villages in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region last Friday, where unknown perpetrators from South Sudan...
View ArticleWhy Are Oromo Refugees Getting Sent Back to Ethiopia?
Tariku Debela, in jeans, walks carefully through the streets of Eastleigh, Nairobi. Photo by Ebba Abbamurti. On a warm evening last month, Tariku Debela was walking home from dinner in the immigrant...
View ArticleTennessee Senator Fears $20 Harriet Tubman Bill Diminishes Andrew Jackson
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., isn’t happy that a Tennessee native, former President Andrew Jackson, is being displaced on the front of the $20 bill. Harriet Tubman to Replace Andrew Jackson on the...
View Article‘Modern Elizabethan Era’: Britain celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday
Thousands of people turned out to wish Queen Elizabeth II a happy 90th birthday Thursday, as she became the first British monarchto reach that grand age. The occasion inspired a flood of good wishes...
View ArticleBoma government accused of being behind massacre of Ethiopian citizens
(JUBA) – A senior army general in South Sudan’s government has accused Boma state government of being behind the recent massacre of over 200 ethnic Nuer citizens in Ethiopia when ethnic Murle militia...
View ArticleIrie moment Rastas turn out in numbers for Emperor Selassie’s grandson visit
With Minister of Culture Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange by his side, Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie greets Rastafarians gathered at Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, yesterday.Photos: Garfield...
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