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DIBABA SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HER XIAMEN TITLE AS BOTH COURSE RECORDS FALL[IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba won the Xiamen Marathon for the second year in succession, taking more than one-and-a-half minutes off the course record she set last year at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race, winning in 2:19:52 on Saturday (3).
For the...
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...
Ethiopians Admasu and Ayalew win Brazil road race [AP]
AO PAULO (AP) – Ethiopia’s Dawit Admasu won the St. Silvester road race in Brazil on Wednesday, crossing the line a second ahead of Kenya’s Stanley Koech.
Admasu finished the 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) course through South America’s...
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...
British security guard faces death penalty in Ethiopia after being found guilty of terrorism offences [independent]
Ali Adorus claims he was targeted by MI5 over alleged links to Islamic extremism before leaving Britain, and that a ‘confession’ was was beaten out of him in prison
ROBERT VERKAIK
A British man who claims...
CPJ “hero” Dawit Kebede says CPJ is tool for Western hegemony [By Tamiru Ayele]
The managing editor of Awramba Times and former CPJ “press freedom hero” has accused the Committee to Protect Journalists of being one of the tools of imposing “Western hegemonic ambition” and a single ideology on targeted countries...