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Israel Deports Refugees to Sudan Despite Threat to Their Lives

February 28, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Emily L. Hauser,thedailybeas Haaretz reported on Tuesday that Israel deported at least 1,000 Sudanese refugees to North Sudan via a third county, without informing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  (UNHCR) and despite the fact that “[Sudan] has … read more »

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Tales of Horror for Eritreans Trying To Reach Israel

February 25, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change (EYSC) and RightNow: Advocacy for Asylum Seekers in Israel hosted a joint event in Los Angeles, advocating for the Jewish and Eritrean-American communities to work together to help Eritrean refugees stuck in the Sinai desert. … read more »

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Iran denies allegations of organizing spy cell in Nigeria

February 22, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

(Reuters) – Iran denied on Friday Nigerian allegations that it had trained militants arrested in Nigeria on charges of planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets there. Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said such allegations were “made up as the … read more »

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The Palestinians: First to Fight Colonialism, Still Colonized

February 21, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Decolonization was a feature of post-World War II era and the surrender of Nazi Germany. The UN Charter was created; the Arab League was formed in 1945 by seven countries; twenty-nine non-aligned countries from Africa and … read more »

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Nigeria: Iranians Paid Me To Kill Babangida, Dasuki, Others – Cleric

February 20, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

CHIKA OTUCHIKERE, Leadership A Nigerian Islamic scholar has told how an insurgent group based in Iran contracted him to spy on and assassinate prominent Nigerians including former military president General Ibrahim Babangida and former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki … read more »

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Israel accused of giving Ethiopians birth control without consent

February 20, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

AP JERUSALEM – Accusations that Israel deliberately tried to curb birthrates among Ethiopian immigrants have reopened a debate over discrimination against the group — highlighting the state’s uneasy relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the … read more »

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Israel accused of coercing Eritrean refugees to ‘volunteer’ for deportation

February 16, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Israel accused of coercing Eritrean refugees to ‘volunteer’ for deportation Local UN official, NGO claim Israel tells Eritrean nationals that they can either go back to home, where their lives would be in danger, or remain in jail. By Talila … read more »

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Eritreans told: You can go free if you go home

February 14, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By BEN HARTMAN 5 Eritrean detainees say they were told by prison officials that their only way to be freed is to agree to go back to Eritrea or Uganda. Eritrean migrants protest Negev detention facility Eritrean asylum seekers in … read more »

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Why Israel Is the Victim

February 13, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By David Horowitz Introduction Israel, the only democracy and tolerant society in the Middle East, is surrounded by Muslim states that have sworn to destroy it and have conducted a genocidal propaganda campaign against the Jews, promising to “finish the … read more »

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Ethiopians in Israel are treated as animals

February 11, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

by Debasish Mitra They are virtually endless in number and in their suffering of untold ignominy they offered the world a shocking and compelling story. They are the Ethiopian women, young and middle-aged and they are Jews who migrated to … read more »

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Nigeria’s Igbo Jews: ‘Lost tribe’ of Israel?

February 2, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Chika Oduah, for CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory. Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there with his family. They … read more »

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Eritrean migrants in Paris rally in support of compatriots

February 1, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By BEN HARTMAN, jpost Around 150 migrants gather outside embassy in Ramat Gan in solidarity with political prisoners, army officers in Eritrea. Around 150 Eritrean asylum seekers protested outside the Eritrean embassy in Ramat Gan on Friday morning, in a … read more »

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San Diego Ethiopian Community Center Reaches the Masses

February 1, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

San Diego serves as home to one of the largest African refugee populations in the country, and is composed of a rich mixture of Africans who bring knowledge and culture from a vast continent. The Ethiopian Community Service Center, located … read more »

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Israel Threatened by Syria and Iran

February 1, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

The presumed Israeli airstrike within Syrian territory on Wednesday has elicited threats of retaliation from both Syria and Iran. Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, quoted at al-Ahd, a Hezbollah-run news website, contended that his nation could make “a surprise decision to respond … read more »

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Why did Israel attack Syria now, and why did the Syrians admit it?

February 1, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Amos Harel, haaretz The alleged Israeli attack came one day after an Iranian announcement that Tehran will view any attack on Syrian territory as an attack against Iran itself. Two days before the night when Israeli planes attacked a … read more »

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Ethiopian women and birth control: when a scoop becomes a smear

January 30, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Allison Kaplan Sommer,haaretz The more the story about Ethiopian women who were given birth control shots was repeated, the more warped and distorted it became. The story of the dramatic drop in the birthrates of the Ethiopian Israeli community … read more »

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Israeli government imposition of contraception on Ethiopian Jews causes 50% drop in birth-rate

January 30, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Samira Shackle, middleeastmonitor Birth rates among Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish community have fallen by nearly 50 per cent in the last 10 years. Now, for the first time, a government official has acknowledged that women of Ethiopian origin were being injected … read more »

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Israel, US conduct deadly drug tests on Ethiopian women

January 28, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

The racist Israeli regime and the US intentionally test a deadly banned birth control drug on ethiopian women “The drug that the people are using is Depo-Provera. It’s being used on African American women by the Pfizer Corporation (the world’s … read more »

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Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots

January 27, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Health Minister director general instructs all gynecologists in Israel’s four health maintenance organizations not to inject women with long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera if they do not understand ramifications of treatment. By Talila Nesher A government official has for the first time … read more »

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Without child: Temporary sterilization of Ethiopian women in Israel may explain halving of birth rate

January 27, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

With the election of the first female Ethiopian Israeli Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, to the Knesset in last week’s polls, the community of more than 150,000 finally had their champion in parliament. It is something the minority had been hoping for, … read more »

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First Female Ethiopian Jew Elected To Knesset

January 24, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

A female Ethiopian Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, was elected to Knesset yesterday as number 14 on the Yesh Atid Knesset list. She is the first Ethiopian woman to be elected to serve in the Knesset. Pnina Tamano-Shata First Female Ethiopian Jew … read more »

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New Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel Experience Their First Ever Snowfall

January 9, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By: Benjamin Rutland Hundreds of Ethiopian Olim (Immigrants), who are living in The Jewish Agency for Israel absorption centers in Safed, experienced snow for the first time ever on January 9th. The children pictured headed outside to play in the … read more »

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Israeli minister seeks approval to deport all Sudanese, Eritrean refugees

January 1, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Israel’s Interior Minister has requested for legal approval to allow authorities to carryout the mass deportation of tens and thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers and migrants. According to Israeli news outlets, interior minister, Eli Yishai, has called on the … read more »

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Israelis protest alleged rape by Eritrean

January 1, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Right-wing demonstrators rally against sexual assault of 83-year-old South Tel Aviv woman by African migrant man. Around 150 Israelis have marched though a run-down Tel Aviv neighbourhood in protest against the alleged rape there of an 83-year-woman by an Eritrean … read more »

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Eritrean Migrant arrested over rape of 83-year-old woman in Tel Aviv

December 31, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Gag order lifted 10 days after man allegedly repeatedly raped an elderly woman near the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv. Photo: Ricardo Mallaco An 83-year-old woman was raped for hours in the courtyard of her apartment building near … read more »

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Israeli teens journey to Ethiopia to walk in their parents’ footsteps

December 30, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Michal Shmulovich,timesofisrael JENDA, Ethiopia — In a secluded village in northern Ethiopia, near the foot of the Blue Nile, Zahava Aregito Zagaya, 16, and a group of other Israeli-Ethiopian teens were walking through expansive green and yellow pastures of … read more »

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The great Ethiopian divide

December 28, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Don Futterman, haaretz Ethiopians are careful to hide the friction between Beta Yisrael and Falashmura, for fear it could damage the community’s image. The Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is divided between the Beta Yisrael and the Falashmura (some … read more »

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Somalis in Kenya hounded by security forces, refugee policy

December 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Exiled Somali journalists living in Nairobi were struck with disbelief this week when daily newspapers published a statement by the Department of Refugee Affairs ordering all Somali refugees to move to refugee camps. “The refugees, particularly those living in urban … read more »

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Eritrean women find refuge from men

December 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Vered Lee, haaretz They fled their homeland only to face a new threat in Israel: domestic violence. Now some are fighting back, from a small center in Tel Aviv. A little after 6 P.M., when the last of the … read more »

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Ethiopian Immigrant Wins Lawsuit Against Israeli Employer

December 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

The Tel Aviv Labor Court last week ordered an Israeli man, Saul Ben-Ami, to pay NIS 71,000 ($19,000) in compensation to his former employee Awaka Yosef, an immigrant from Ethiopia, for referring to him with the racist slur “kushi,” Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday. The incident … read more »

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