Archive: Current Affairs / News Subscribe to Current Affairs / News
Missing teen back with family [winnipegfreepress]
Girl new to Canada finds shelter after losing her way home
By: Carol Sanders
An Ethiopian girl who went missing on her first day of school in Canada Monday was found safe and sound Tuesday after she took shelter from the deadly cold overnight...
Teen from Ethiopia goes missing during first day of school in Winnipeg [Sun News]
KRISTIN ANNABLE | QMI AGENCY
WINNIPEG – Police are looking for a 17-year-old girl, newly arrived to Canada from Ethiopia, who failed to return home from her first day at a new school.
Police say Bethelihem Zeleke Eliso moved to Winnipeg...
The people pushed out of Ethiopia's fertile farmland [BBC]
By Matthew Newsome
Ethiopia
The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial – finding out what local people think can be hard, but with the help of a bottle...
Hailemariam’s fake “top 10 educated” list falls apart [By Abebe Gellaw]
The official website of India TV that had published a dubious online ranking two weeks ago that it claimed to be a list of the “top 10 most educated politicians in the world” has retracted the story.
Indiantvnews.com has now pulled back...
In 2015 We Should Be the Change [Belay Fekadu, President of Unity for Democracy and Justice]
I hope 2015 will be a different year for Ethiopia. I hope democracy will finally flourish in our country. History tells us that, Ethiopia’s present and future, for a long time, has been determined by not the will of our people but by succession...
Local Ethiopians miss out as big agriculture firms struggle in Gambella [William Davison]
Commercial farming, with its vast tracts of land, is running into problems in Ethiopia’s Gambella region – and local communities are reaping few benefits
Guards near Saudi Star’s farm in Gambella, which was attacked by gunmen two...
Ethiopia denies reports about Yemen migrants' drowning[World Bulletin]
Foreign Ministry spokesperson denies reports of drowning, saying reports are baseless propaganda.
World Bulletin / News Desk
Ethiopian authorities have denied media reports about the drowning of around 70 Ethiopian migrants off Yemen’s...