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Remembering the Armenians of Ethiopia [The Armenian Weekly]
By R.P. Sevadjian
At the beginning of March, a Requiem was offered for my parents and for the Sevadjian clan, and it transported me back 40 years to when I had last been to a service in the magnificent church of my childhood: the St. George...
Ethiopia veterans want Italy apology, compensation
‘Italy should issue an apology and compensate Ethiopia for all of its war crimes, in particular for the chemical attack against Ethiopians,’ Daniel Jote Mesfin, head of the Ethiopian Patriots’ Association, told The AA.
By Abebech...
Italy Is Finally Cracking Down on Slave Trade[thedailybeast]
Barbie Latza Nadeau
How braggadocio helped police crack a smugglers’ ring “in which people are bought and sold like merchandise.”
UPDATE: Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano confirmed that a Tunisian man and a...
Celebrating Adwa Victory as the Significant African Victory [Professor Mammo Muchie]
Inspiration
”Although it had been conquered dozens of times, Ethiopia was the birthplace of African nationalism.” Nelson Mandela, in his Long Walk to Freedom, p.402
“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the...
Ethiopia's lions at risk of dying out [ABC Environment]
Black-maned lions were once the symbol of Ethiopia, today there are fears they could become extinct.
ETHIOPIA’S BLACK-MANED LIONS once represented a former emperor, “Lion of Judah” Haile Selassie, and were immortalised in a...
When Fascists Tried to Remake Ethiopia [By JONATHAN COPPAGE]
Picture of Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirt youth in 1935 in Rome.
When Mussolini’s army invaded and ultimately occupied Ethiopia, the Italian fascists did more than expand...
If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double check the time
PRI’s The World
Reporter Dalia Mortada
Things always get lost in translation. Sometimes, words or phrases just cannot be converted word-for-word from one language to the next. But in most places, the date and the time works pretty much...