Ethiopia: Teddy Afro concert cancelled for a third time (musicinafrica)
The concert, which was to take place on 10 September at the Addis Ababa’s Millennium Hall, was expected to draw more than 10 000 people. The artist was reportedly to receive $76 980 (1.8 million birr) from organisers of the event Joy...
Police use water cannon and batons to clear refugees from Rome square (Standard)
A man, walking with the aid of crutches, is struck by spray from a police water cannon in Rome EPA
Hatty Collier
Police using water cannon and batons clashed with refugees who had occupied a small square in Rome after they were...
Smugglers Target Ethiopian, Somali Teens for Deadly Trip to Yemen
voanews
Despite being seven months pregnant, Mesno Taha left her home in Harerge, Ethiopia to find peace and a better future. She trekked to the Somali zone of Ethiopia, crossed the border into Somalia and paid to board a boat bound for Yemen.
After...
The sad story of an Ethiopian prince, taken to England, only to die young [By Martin Plaut]
Martin Plaut
This is a photograph of a sad little boy, who was taken from his family, brought to England, only to die as a youth.
The boy in question was Dejazmatch Alemayehu Tewodros, often referred to as HIH Prince Alemayehu or Alamayou...
Ethiopia’s life under emergency (thehindu)
Nizar Manek
Military helicopters circled above a crowd of thousands during a festival in Ethiopia’s Oromia region in October last. “Down, down TPLF!” one of those who assembled at Bishoftu town in Oromia shouted into a microphone, referring...