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Coca-Cola under fire for dropping Teddy Afro’s World Cup Anthem (EMF)
By staff writer – 4 June 2014
(EMF) A large number of Diaspora community is urging East African nations to stop drinking Coca-Cola, in protest for Coca-Cola’s outrageous action to drop Teddy Afro’s World Cup Anthem.
Negative campaigning...
Press Release from Teddy Afro On the Ethiopian Version of the World Cup Anthem.
Teddyafro.info
Ethiopian Version of the World Cup Anthem
Over the past months, we have been under intense pressures with flooding requests to reveal our positions regarding the relationship that exist between Coca Cola and the widely rumoured...
DOZENS OF MIGRANTS BODIES FOUND ALONG YEMEN SHORES- (AP)
By AHMED AL-HAJ
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official and witnesses say the bodies of dozens of illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have been found on western beaches after their boat capsized in the Red Sea.
Witnesses...
Yemeni People Traffickers Prey on Ethiopia Migrants Seeking Work - Bloomberg
By William Davison Jun 1, 2014
Sintayehu Beyene left Ethiopia planning to earn money to begin a carpentry business — he ended up captive in Yemen where Kalashnikov-wielding traffickers stole what little he owned.
Grabbed from a...
US EMBASSY WARNS AL-SHABAB ATTACKS IN ETHIOPIA
Indepthafrica
Threat from Al-Shabaab against Ethiopia and western interests in Ethiopia
Posted on 31 May 2014. Tags: AFRICOM, al-shabab, Bomb Attack,Ethiopia, somalia invasion, Travel Warning
By U.S. Embassy (Addis Ababa),
THE U.S....
The Swiss government granted asylum to Co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera
(EMF) — The Switzerland government has granted asylum to the Ethiopian co-pilot who seized control of the Boeing 767-300 on 17 February 2014 and flew it to Geneva, according Ethiopian attorney who closely following the case.
The Ethiopian...
BBC condemns Ethiopian broadcast jamming
30.05.2014
Category: World Service
Liliane Landor, acting Director of the BBC World Service Group, has called on the Ethiopian authorities to stop jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East and North Africa.
She joined directors from...
Ethiopia under fire over journalist arrest
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | May 29, 2014
ADDIS ABABA, May 29- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on authorities in Ethiopia to release a journalist being held without charge following a spate of similar arrests in recent...