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Ethiopia

Type: Country

Name: Ethiopia

population: 70,600,040

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Meles Zenawi

Ethiopia polls: US concerned

Addis Ababa - A senior United States official voiced concerns on Friday about the restrictions on opposition parties and human rights abuses in Ethiopia ahead of elections next year.'The US is concerned by what we see as reduction in political space and ... [News24.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Ethiopia, Addis Abeba, Coalition for Unity and Democracy (ET), Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Fro..., Meles Zenawi

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 17 Documents

Ethiopian Jews in Israel still await Promised Land

File photo shows Israelis from the Ethiopian community with photographs of their relatives during a demonstration against the government's decision to close down the operation to bring Jewish Ethiopians to Israel. There are more than 120,000 Ethiopian ... [France24 - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Israel, Ethiopia, Jerusalem

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Ethiopia: 26 guilty of coup plot

Addis Ababa - An Ethiopian court on Thursday found 26 people guilty of coup plotting and attempting to assassinate senior government officials, an AFP correspondent at the trial reported."The evidence provided by the prosecution prove that the stated ... [News24.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Ethiopia, Addis Abeba, Coalition for Unity and Democracy (ET), Berhanu Nega

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

SunOpta opens Ethiopian organic sesame hulling plant

Mr. Steve Bromley reportsSUNOPTA ANNOUNCES OPENING OF NATURAL AND ORGANIC SESAME HULLING OPERATIONSunOpta Inc.'s SunOpta International Sourcing and Trading Group, in hand with its joint venture partner, has completed the construction of the first natural ... [Stockwatch - 11/19/2009]

Entities: SunOpta Incorporated, Organic, Steve Bromley, Ethiopia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

United Nations

African women demand adoption of UN convention on discrimination

From Collins Olayinka, AbujaIT was a joyous moment yesterday at the on-going Eighth African Regional Conference on Women as participants celebrated the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/20/2009]

Entities: United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of..., United Nations, Adoption, UNECA

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Horn of Africa food crisis: Shocking scenes of deprivation

Roger Middleton, December 2009, The World Today, Volume 65, Number 12The north eastern corner of Africa is again witnessing shocking scenes of deprivation. The Horn of Africa, from Sudan through Kenya and Ethiopia to Somalia regularly suffers from prolonged ... [ReliefWeb - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Horn of Africa, Sudan, Somalia

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 Documents

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals

'We have seen progress, but not enough - especially in Africa,' complains Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has asked British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take a lead role in the U.N initiative. The haphazard progress in meeting the eight Millennium ... [Inter Press Service - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Ethiopia, Mortality, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Djibouti, University of Washington

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Halfway back from the moon

Like the rich man in the parable, we Americans “fare sumptuously every day” on the world’s resources. At 5 percent of the world’s population, we own 34 percent of the world’s cars, and use 25 percent of its oil. There are roughly 34 cars per 1,000 people ... [National Catholic Reporter - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Oxfam, Emission, Climate

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Eritrea sanctions planned

A draft resolution, seen by AFP, was circulated on Wednesday by Uganda, part of a six-nation east African regional bloc that has been calling for months for sanctions to be imposed.There will be no vote on the proposal before December to give time for ... [Times Live South Africa - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Eritrea, Sanctions, Djibouti

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

New Approach to Aid Urgently Needed [opinion]

Nairobi Twenty five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month, the Ethiopian Government called for urgent international assistance to help feed ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Horn of Africa, International Federation of Red Cross and Red C..., Disaster

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Right to Water

right to water and access to sanitation, which are presented in the following booklet. The participants were experts and representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations as well as academics from various backgrounds and regions. ... [UNESCO - 12 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., Water, Iraq, Yukiko Kada

First Reported 18 mins ago - Updated 18 mins ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Ethiopia sees Africa as victim of climate change

Africa has been a victim of climate change, though its contribution to global warming is very minimal, said Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Saturday.Unless the developed world strives towards reducing carbon gas emissions, Africa would do nothing ... [Individual.com - 18 mins ago]

Entities: Ethiopia, Global Warming/Climate Change, Meles Zenawi, Addis Abeba

Quotes

The campaigns have been conducted nationwide since 2008 -- even in the most dangerous areas, such as the Afgoye Corridor. "Due to the lack of funding, these Child Health Days may now be brought to a halt and feeding centers may have to close,? Johnson warned. Yet Somalia is not unique. In six countries around the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and parts of Uganda, as well as Somalia and Kenya), some 24 million people are now in need of food aid and other humanitarian assistance."

UNICEF urges stepped-up response to crisis in Somalia [Xinhua News Agency - 10 hours ago]

"On a personal note, the quality of life here is good too; it's a central place so you can fly off to almost anywhere; places that are often only a dream are at your doorstep here; it's liberal too, of course not as free as Europe but its not too bad. I've been on holiday a few times to Oman, Iran, North Pakistan, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia. There's great food here too. The variety is amazing."

Six degrees in construction [Arabian Business - 14 hours ago]

...official voiced concerns on Friday about the restrictions on opposition parties and human rights abuses in Ethiopia ahead of elections next year. "The US is concerned by what we see as reduction in political space and the ability of opposition parties to operate and do what opposition parties should do" Karl Wycoff, deputy assistant secretary of state for East African Affairs, told reporters...

Ethiopia polls: US concerned [News24.com - 11/20/2009]

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Ethiopia sees Africa as victim of climate change [Individual.com - 18 mins ago]
Halfway back from the moon [National Catholic Reporter - 1 hour ago]
Ethiopian Airlines has begun flights to Liberia [Prlog - 5 hours ago]
A new railway for Kenya [Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - 6 hours ago]
Madagascar leaders to meet on unity government ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 7 hours ago]
UNICEF urges stepped-up response to crisis in S... [Xinhua News Agency - 10 hours ago]
The whole world in his books [Irish Times - 10 hours ago]
Lighting products awards [Vector Online - 10 hours ago]
Experts Put Heads Together To Tackle Mental Hea... [Nigeria Guardian - 11 hours ago]
Saudi-East African Forum [Al Iktissad Wal Aamal Group - 11 hours ago]
Ethiopia committed to peace in Somalia - foreig... [Individual.com - 11 hours ago]
UN Sanctions may affect Canada's Nevsun, foreig... [Asmarino Independent - 11 hours ago]
Right to Water [UNESCO - 12 hours ago]
Jimmy Carter on Global Health Care [Vanity Fair - 13 hours ago]
Six degrees in construction [Arabian Business - 14 hours ago]
The Demographic Demon [Outlook India - 16 hours ago]
The Oslo Center & Human Rights Watch Joint ... [Asmarino Independent - 16 hours ago]
Presbyterian notes [Irish Times - 18 hours ago]
Uganda to benefit from sh21b project [New Vision - 19 hours ago]
POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Developme... [Inter Press Service - 20 hours ago]
Zewditu Hospital to Get a New Outpatient Depart... [US Embassy Ethiopia: Addis Ababa - 22 hours ago]
Child advocate: 'Canada has let her children down' [Digital Journal - 11/20/2009]
20 years later Rights of the Child does not rin... [Digital Journal - 11/20/2009]
Yemen registers over 2,630 H1N1 flu cases this ... [Yemen Observer - 11/20/2009]
Human Rights Situation in Ethiopia [Fidh - 11/20/2009]
Ethiopia polls: US concerned [News24.com - 11/20/2009]
Somaliland: A News Digest in English 3 [American Chronicle - 11/20/2009]
US funding ups African AIDS drive [Namibian - 11/20/2009]
President Kim Il Sung Praised in Ethiopia [Naenara - 11/20/2009]

Blogs

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Global Health: World Toilet Day Raises a Stink [Global Voices Online - 11/19/2009] While it may sound like a bad joke, today's World Toilet Day focuses on a not-so-funny issue impacting almost half the world's population — a lack of toilets and ...
"The View From Your Window" - Now Jus... [The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 11/19/2009] Apologies for the belated update, especially to the 1000+ readers last week who pledged to purchase at least one Window View book. (Total pledges: nearly ...
Wednesday Coffee Hour: Overcoming Inertia [Street Prophets - 11/18/2009] If you're anything like me, you spend a lot of time in front of the computer. (And you probably are, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this right now!) Computer ...
The latest news on Health Care, Foreign Policy,... [God's Politics Blog - 11/18/2009] Venezuela-Colombia. Reacting to a deal that gives the Pentagon use of seven bases in Colombia for flights to combat drug trafficking and insurgency, Venezuelan President ...
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Witness for the Future [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/17/2009] In his book Night, Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and the man the Nobel Committee called the "messenger to mankind" when it awarded him the peace ...

Audio/Video

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Midge Ure on climate change [ITN News - YouTube - 11/05/2009]
Listening Post - Ethiopia in 1984 and now [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 11/05/2009]
Ethiopia is once again in the grip of a famine [Sky News - YouTube - 10/28/2009]
7 Things: The Greening of Hugh Jackman [Newsweek - YouTube - 09/24/2009]
11-28 Walking with Beasts 4 _ Next of Kin [Mefeedia Video Tag : physics - 04/09/2009]

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