An astonishing 3 weeks for Yityish Aynaw, an immigrant orphan from Ethiopia, who became the first black Miss Israel last month, and has now been invited to Thursday’s gala dinner with visiting to United States President Barack Obama. When Yityish Aynaw arrived in Israel as a 12-year-old, winning beauty...
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THE funeral of Abune Paulos, the patriarch of the powerful Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who died last week at 76, was held yesterday. Also, officials have announced that the country will hold the funeral of late prime minister Meles Zenawi on September 2. “It will be on September 2,” foreign affairs spokesman, Dina Mufti, told Agence France Presse (AFP). Meles...
Ethiopia will hold the funeral of late prime minister Meles Zenawi on September 2, officials said Thursday, without giving further details. “(It will be on) September 2,” foreign affairs spokesman Dina Mufti told AFP. Meles died late Monday in Brussels following a long illness, after more than two decades at the helm of the Horn of Africa nation. The 57-year-old had...
s Ababa after “successful surgery” in Germany. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former Chief of Staff, was often heard saying, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Asked to explain what he meant, he said, “Crisis presents an opportunity to allow you to do things you thought you couldn’t do.” There is a potential crisis...
Eighteen Ethiopians have been killed and over 30,000 refugees have crossed into Kenya, after ethnic clashes erupted over the weekend between the Borana and Garre community of southern Ethiopia near the Kenyan border. According to the Kenya Red Cross (KRCS), the conflict is because of land squabbles between the two tribes. The Degodia community who mainly occupy north eastern...