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Joseph Puder In her Washington Post column on May 5, 2013, Jennifer Rubin blasted the Obama administration, opining that “As for the Middle East, when a U.S. president is this passive and unwilling to act in accord with its words, … read more »
(ADDIS ABABA) – Saudi Arabia on Saturday removed the Kingdom’s deputy defense minister who recently made hostile remarks over Ethiopia’s massive dam project being built on the Blue Nile River only 30km upstream from Sudan. Speaking at a session of … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Khalid Bin Sultan, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Nigeria’s government is not doing enough to tackle religious violence in central Nigeria, where more than 100 people have been killed since March, a U.S. government agency said on Monday. Plateau state and other parts of the “Middle Belt” have … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Christian, Indepth Africa Magazine, Middle Belt, Monday, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Thisday
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(ADDIS ABABA) – A female Eritrean Air Force pilot has defected to Saudia Arabia where she is seeking political asylum in Saudi Arabia, in in a latest sign of embarrassment to the dictatorial regime in Asmara. Captain Rahwa Gebrekristos deserted … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Asmara, eritrean, Eritrean Air Force, Gebrekristos, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Jizan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan Tribune
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An Ethiopian housemaid went into the bathroom at her employer’s house in Saudi Arabia, left the shower running, tied a rope to her neck and hanged herself, a newspaper in the Gulf Kingdom reported on Wednesday. The Saudi family, suspecting … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, House of Saud, Indepth Africa Magazine, Maid, Middle East, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday
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The Saudi Arabia government has made an official statement rebuffing recent remarks made by the kingdom’s deputy defense minister against the construction Ethiopia’s Grand renaissance dam. Speaking at a session of the Arab Water Council held in Cairo late in … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Khalid Bin Sultan, Nile, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Fate of stranded migrants in Yemen ‘very grim’ GENEVA: The plight of thousands of migrants stranded in Yemen after trying to reach Saudi Arabia and the Gulf has Ethiopian migrants sleep out in the open near a transit centre Ethiopian … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haradh, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen
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The Ethiopian government is planning to take serious steps to crack down on gangs that smuggle Ethiopian citizens into the Saudi borders and will cooperate with Saudi authorities toward achieving this goal, said the Ethiopian Ambassador to the Kingdom, an … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian government, IndepthAfrica, mass media, Politics of Ethiopia, Saudi, Saudi Arabia
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By Dejenie A. Lakew Inter- governmental, economic and cultural relations are meant – to create awareness , strengthen social relations and benefit common citizens. Ethiopia and Ethiopians, the Islamic world and its people – It is documented in their holy … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Arab World, Barack Obama, Eritrea, ethio media oromo, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, Islam, news about ethiopia, news for ethiopia, news from ethiopia, news in ethiopia, news of ethiopia, news on ethiopia, Saudi Arabia
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Two Ethiopian housemaids have been sentenced to three months in jail each for stealing more than Dh254,000 in cash and 164 gold jewellery items from their employer. The Court of First Instance also ordered that the defendants be deported after … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Business and Economy, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Jewellery, latest ethiopian news, Maid, prosecutor, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Shopping
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By Geletaw Zeleke The United Nations’ number one millennium development goal is eradicating extreme poverty from the face of the earth. Holding this slogan high, countries across the globe are working to get rid of poverty. Supporters of bilateral aid … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Derg, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Marc Ravalomanana, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, World Bank
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By Joel Brinkley American Voices Tribune Media Services – Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan’s office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used. No actual health-care facility nationwide … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Economist Intelligence Unit, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States, World Economic Forum
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Where is the Left’s moral indignation about the Isamic-Arab racism against, and enslavement of, African blacks?
A lack of qualified swordsmen may relegate the barbaric Saudi practice of public beheadings to the historical ash heap, although such a change is unlikely to slow down the swelling numbers of people being put to death in the Saudi … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Global Issues, Kenya, Middle East, Nigeria
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Tagged al-Beshi, Capital punishment, Decapitation, Execution by firing squad, IndepthAfrica, Muhammad Saad al-Beshi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sharia
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Khaled Almaeena Lately, there have been news items about Ethiopians committing crimes and infiltrating the southern borders of the Kingdom. Many writers in the Arabic press have gone ballistic and while commenting on these incidents have said things that have … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Arabian Peninsula, Bangladeshi, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Jeddah, Kingdom, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Saudi, Saudi Arabia
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*popular cleric still in Semera ignoring threat of arrest (By Getahune Bekele, South Africa) Despite demonstration in tyrannized nation where adhering to Islam is becoming dangerous and hedged with restrictions under the controversial anti- terrorism law, the peaceful Islamic revolution … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Getahune Bekele
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Islam, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Semera, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
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Nigeria is home to a pair of billionaires, cement king Aliko Dangote and oil and telecom magnate Mike Adenuga. The two are worth a combined $20.8 billion, or nearly $7.3 billion more than the GDP of neighboring Niger. In terms … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Aliko Dangote, Carlos Slim, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Monaco, Net worth, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, United States
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Helen Epstein, nybooks AFP/Getty Images Workers at a Saudi-owned rice farm in Gambella, Ethiopia, March 22, 2012 In 2010, the Ethiopian government began moving thousands of people out of the rural villages where they had lived for centuries to other … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Gambella, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Politics of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, United States, World Bank
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Ethiopian Ambassador Mohammed Hassan has said the embassy, after consultations with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is considering filing lawsuits against a number of Saudis and media organizations on charges of defaming his countrymen. The ambassador told Al-Hayat newspaper on … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Al-Hayat, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Kingdom, latest ethiopian news, mass media, news ethiopia, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday
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(By Getahune Bekele, South Africa) After vicious media campaign for more than 2 months in the intolerant Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia against Ethiopian immigrants, massive crackdown is currently underway targeting Ethiopians only with Saudi citizens asked to call 992 … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Khalid Bin Sultan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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An illegal Ethiopian being arrested in Riyadh, Sunday. — SG photo Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Within hours of launching its campaign against illegal aliens here Sunday, the capital’s Passports Department officials were able to apprehend 41 Ethiopian infiltrators. Citizens and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged arrest, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Riyadh, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Yemen
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The promotion of ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism has been a topic of discussion on two Egyptian TV programs recently. On Al-Tahrir, Egyptian TV advisor Ahmad Abdo Maher discusses the high-school curriculum issued by the highest religious authority in Egypt, … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Azhar University, Al-Nas, Al-Tahrir, Egypt, Eid al-Adha, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Muslim, Saudi Arabia
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Dear Prof. Alemayehu, Even our Egyptian brothers will not say about the dam, as Prof. Alemayehu. Some of them know the dam what we we build now is the dam they are going to build after a century for them … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Aswan, Aswan Dam, Blue Nile, Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Dam War of Words Late last month, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Sultan fired a shot across the bow from the Arab Water Council in Cairo to let the regime in Ethiopia know that his country takes … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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by GRAHAM PEEBLES Indian multi-nationals in clover Ancestral land that for generations has served as home and livelihood for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in Ethiopia is being leased out, on 99-year renewable contracts at nominal sums to foreign … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Gambella, IndepthAfrica, India, Politics of Ethiopia, Premiership of Meles Zenawi, Saudi Arabia, sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank
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Government of Ethiopia This week, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, was in Addis Ababa for talks with Prime Minister Hailemariam and the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Ato Sufian Ahmed. The discussions with the … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Al-Assaf, Economic Development, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Finance minister, Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Middle East, news ethiopia, Saudi Arabia
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By: G. E. Gorfu Sir, I read your comments as reported in the Sudan Tribune of Feb. 27, 2013 where you accused Ethiopia of posing a threat to the Nile water rights of Egypt and Sudan. Where did these Nile … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Arab, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sudan Tribune
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Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia have had long standing relations for many centuries, both in terms of business relations and people-to-people contacts. Cultural bonds are deep-rooted, strong and ancient. Indeed, they go back to the time of the Prophet when he … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Egypt, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, IndepthAfrica, Khalid Bin Sultan, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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A day after Prince Khalid bin Sultan, deputy defence minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, made hostile remarks about Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, the Finance Minister of Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, will be meeting … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Cairo, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Finance minister, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Hailemariam Desalegne, Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Saudi Arabia
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By Jeremy Salt – Ankara In a recent article (‘Viewpoint: Echoes of Spanish civil war in Syria’, BBC News Magazine, October 9, 2012), Fouad Ajami has drawn parallels between the Spanish civil war and the conflict in Syria. He compares … read more »
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