Tag Archives: Middle East
By Mesfin Mekonen We have recently learned that Rep. Chris Smith has been invited by the Ethiopian government and the African Union to visit Ethiopia soon. Smith chairs the House Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organization Subcommittee. … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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The short-lived tumult carries deep implications for Iran’s desire to lock down the Middle East. Dissident Eritrean soldiers seized the country’s Ministry of Information on Monday, and briefly took over Eritrea’s state-run television service in an apparent attempt to overthrow … read more »
Posted in Comoros, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Ethiopia, Gulf of Aden, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Isaias Afewerki, Middle East, North Korea, Suez Canal
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(AP) — On the eve of an unimaginably long walk — one that starts in Africa, winds through the Middle East, across Asia, hops over to Alaska, goes down the western United States, then Central and South America and ends … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Associated Press, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Paul Salopek, Places In Between, Rory Stewart, Salopek, United States
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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 »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Aliyah, Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian immigrants, ethiopian jews, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency, Jewish Agency for Israel, Middle East, Safed
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By Teklu Abate (PhD) Introduction Twenty years ago, my cousin returned from the Middle East totally incapacitated, physically as well as psychologically. I recall that people were talking about her doomsday, that she threw herself down from her employer’s many-storey … read more »
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Tagged Addis, Addis Ababa University, Arab, Arab World, Doctor of Philosophy, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Middle East
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KUWAIT : Police have arrested an Ethiopian guard for stabbing to death a 33-year-old compatriot guard inside a camp in Wafra, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily. According to security sources the victim was stabbed in the stomach and bled to … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Arabic language, Ethiopia, Forensics, Kuwait, Kuwait City, Middle East, Stabbing, Wafra
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ten men were found guilty Tuesday by an Ethiopian court of plotting terror attacks with Islamist extremist rebels from neighboring Somalia. Judge Bahiru Darecha said the group was making plans and getting supplies to attack political and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somali
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Al-Shabab, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Islamism, kenya news, kenyan news, Middle East, somali news, Somalia, Somalia News
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Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists. The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother … read more »
The use of chemical weapons would be a “political suicide” for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview released Monday by the channel Russia Today. “I do not think that Syria … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Bashar Al-Assad, Chemical weapon, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Secretary General of NATO, Sergey Lavrov, Syria, Syrian people
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An Ethiopian housemaid murdered her Saudi employer by stabbing him in the neck and other parts of his body before attacking his little son and inflicting serious injuries on him, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Wednesday. The … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Apartment, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Jeddah, Maid, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Stabbing, Travel and Tourism, Tuesday
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IRIN – Addis Ababa — Jemmal Ahmed, 21, was recently deported back to Ethiopia after a nine-month stay in a prison in Yemen for illegally entering the country a few months earlier. His intention had been to cross over into … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, IRIN, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, Yemen
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By Yilma Bekele The press release was short and to the point. It was only six paragraphs long and was written in a matter of fact way. There were no trumpets blaring, no press conference with TV lights and no … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yilma Bekele
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, European Union, Ginbot 7, Ginbot 7 formation, God, GPF, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Television, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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Dear Colleagues and Friends; As many of our fellow Ethiopians of Christian faith gather with family and friends over the next days to celebrate one of the most important of Christian holidays, we in the SMNE (the Board Members, Task … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia diaspora, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mesfin Negash, Middle East, Politics of Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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press release Greece is seriously failing to respect the rights of asylum-seekers and migrants, Amnesty International warned in a briefing published today. Every year, tens of thousands of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East, Asia and Africa cross … read more »
Bana from Asmara On December 17 and 18, 2012 a second round of investment conference will take place in the Eritrean capital, Asmara. If this event is going to be anything similar to the first round that was held at … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrean Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, People's Front for Democracy and Justice, PFDJ
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Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has privately pledged to “fight to his last bullet” in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha, vowing, “If I go, none of Syria remains.” The daily pools of blood spilled by his madmen cause hearts to be … read more »
By Teklu Abate During the last two decades, Ethiopia for sure witnessed improvements in some fronts. Basic infrastructure such as hydroelectric dams, roads, education and health institutions, and catering businesses are significantly expanded. Particularly important are the efforts made to … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Derg, Diaspora, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Seyoum Mesfin
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By Seble Teweldebirhan Addis Ababa, (Ezega.com) – As globalization reaches many urbanized areas of Ethiopia, the role of women in a society is redefining itself. For many educated and self-sustaining women, the current era is a transitional period. It is … read more »
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Ezega.com, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, NGO, People, womens rights
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By Anne Bartlett If the dragging of student bodies from a water-filled ditch this week served to illustrate anything, it showed that the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) is not worth the paper it is written on. It … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Al-Fashir, Darfur, Darfuri, Doha, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Indepth Africa Magazine, Khartoum, Middle East, Qatar, Sudan
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Katie Gresham In honor of World Human Rights Day (December 10), I would like to present to you the top 10 worst human rights offenders in the world, with a little help from Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Central Africa, Djibouti, East Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Belarus, Equatorial Guinea, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, United Arab Emirates
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Gender equality is an issue that is afforded a significant amount of attention right now in Ethiopia. Many facets of public policy are designed to ensure the representation and benefit of women. For these reasons and many others, including the … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged abuse, Addis Ababa, Asmara, crime, Domestic violence, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethiopian comedy, ethiopian music, Ethiopian News Agency, ethiopian news in amharic, ethiopian news paper, ethiopian newspapers, ethiopian reporter, Indepth Africa Magazine, Isaias Afewerki, Meles Zenawi, Middle East, People, Red Sea, Violence and Abuse, Women
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Successive leaders of Israel have been running out of workable ideas and sustainable policy objectives for more than half a century since the forceful creation in 1948 of their would-be the only Jewish State of Israel in the middle of … read more »
Somaliland has demonstrated the durability of its democratic institutions, with few, if any, appropriate role-models amongst neighboring states. Again the Republic of Somaliland and its people have shown a hypocritical, a world short in ethics and what right another lesson … read more »
Matthew Newsome Hargeisa As Somalia starts to emerge from its quagmire of instability and chaos, 20 years of relative peace and stability are starting to pay dividends for its close neighbour Somaliland, as this November it struck its first major … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Genel Energy, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Inter Press Service, Middle East, Ophir Energy, Somalia, Somaliland, Soviet Union
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As it happened four years ago, the Israelis are again in Gaza, cutting down anything and everyone in their way. As they are known to be, the Israelis do not discriminate when it comes to killing: the Old Testament of … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Global Issues, Middle East, North Africa
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Gaza, Israel, israeli, Middle East, Palestine, United Nations General Assembly, United States
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The world will be a more peaceful place in 2050 By Liat Clark, An upcoming paper by a political scientist will claim that in 40 years world conflict will plummet, with the greatest decrease occurring in the Middle East. Håvard … read more »
Posted in Article, Cote d'Ivoire, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria, North Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, West Africa
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Tagged Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, International Studies Quarterly, Libya, Middle East, Peace Research Institute Oslo, political science, Syria, University of Oslo, Østfold University College
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(Reuters) – A U.S. panel on religious freedom accused the Ethiopian government of trying to tighten control of its Muslim minority amid mass protests, saying it is risking greater destabilization of the Horn of Africa region. Ethiopia, which has long … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Al Ahbash, Barack Obama, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Middle East, Muslim
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AP A file courtroom sketch shows shows Mark Basseley Youssef talking with his attorney Steven Seiden, left, in court in Los Angeles. Los Angeles – The man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the … read more »
By: Elcano Royal Institute By Joaquín Roy The general consensus on the November 2012 US presidential election campaign is that foreign policy will not play a major role. Both candidates know that what concerns the voters is the economy and … read more »
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Tagged Barack Obama, Bashar Al-Assad, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Mitt Romney, obama, Republicans, Syria, United States
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At least 72 Ethiopian migrants are reported to have drowned last week while attempting to cross from Bossaso, Somalia to Yemen, authorities there reported. The migrants were traveling in two boats which were hit by strong winds and waves that … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bosaso, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, ethiopian refugees, Gulf of Aden, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Qahtanite, Somalia, United Nation, Yemen
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