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What is Ethiopiawinet? (Prof.Mammo Muchie)
“This is my plea to the new generation of African leaders and African peoples: work for unity with firm conviction that without unity there is no future for Africa…I reject the glorification of the nation-state, which we have inherited from...
Exiled Ethiopian Journalists in Nairobi Tell Their Struggle
By Abdi Latif Dahir NAIROBI, Kenya – Mastewal Birhanu thinks about the day he fled the city of his childhood. Even though he had made his mind to leave Ethiopia for Kenya, the thought of questioning and imprisonment at the airport agitated...
Women in Ethiopia struggle to survive without water
(MSNBC) By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon
In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls.
“Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother...
6.5 million Ethiopians needs food assistance
(Reuters)- The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall.
“We are concerned because there is the...