Sheger Tribune: July 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

እስትንፋሱን ለማቆየት የወገኖቹን እርዳታ የሚጠብቀው ታዳጊ- ሙሉ ብርሃን-ቪዲዮውን ይመልከቱ

ሙሉ ብርሃን ይባላል 16 ዓመቱ ነው ፡፡አዲግራት ሆስፒታል መኖር ከጀመረ ከ3 ዓመት በላይ ሆኖታል፡፡ በመተንፈሻ አካሉ ላይ በደረሰበት ጉዳት ምክንያት በአፍንጫው መተንፈስ አይችልም፡፡ በጥቁር አንበሳ ሆስፒታል በተደረገለት የቀዶ ጥገና በአንገቱ ላይ በተሰራለት ሰው ሰራሽ መሳሪያ በመተገዝ ነው የሚተነፍሰው፡፡
በሆስፒታሉ የሚኖረው የሚተነፍስበት መሳሪያ ለማፅዳት የሚያግዘው መሳሪያ በሆስፒታሉ ስለሚገኝ ነው ፡፡
ሐኪሞች እንደነገሩት የሚረዳው ቢያገኝ እና ውጭ ሃገር መሄድ ቢችል ዳግም በአፍንጫው መተንፈስ ይችላል፡፡ ህክምናው የሚጠይቀውን ወጪ ቤተሰቦቹ ለመሸፈን አቅም የላቸውም፡፡ አባቱ ከዚህ ዓለም በሞት ተለይተዋል ፣ አናቱ ደግሞ አቅመ ደካማ ናቸው ፡፡ የቤተሰቡ ሁለተኛ ልጅ የሆነውን ሙሉብርሃንን ለመተደግ እጆን ይዘርጉለት ፡፡ሙሉብረሃንን ለመርዳት በቬዲዮ ላይ ባሉት ስልክ ቁጥሮች ያገኙታል፡፡

አየር መንገድ በድሪምላይነር አውሮፕላን ሳቢያ ገቢው ቀንሷል

- በድሪምላይነሮቹ ላይ አሁንም ጠንካራ እምነት አለኝ አለ - ለሠራተኞች የደመወዝ ጭማሪ አድርጓል

የኢትዮጵያ አየር መንገድ ከቦይንግ ኩባንያ በቅርቡ ከተረከባቸው ዘመናዊዎቹ አራት ድሪምላይነር አውሮፕላኖች መካከል በአንዱ ላይ በእንግሊዝ ለንደን አውሮፕላን ማረፊያ በቆመበት በደረሰበት ችግር ምክንያት፣ በአየር መንገዱ እንቅስቃሴና ገቢ ላይ ጉዳት ማድረሱን ዋና ሥራ አስፈጻሚው አስታወቁ፡፡

ዋና ሥራ አስፈጻሚው አቶ ተወልደ ገብረ ማርያም የአየር መንገዱን የሥራ አፈጻጸም አስመልክቶ ሐምሌ 19 ቀን 2005 ዓ.ም ለአየር መንገዱ ሠራተኞች ባሰራጩት የውስጥ ደብዳቤ፣ አየር መንገዱ በዘንድሮው የበጀት ዓመት አስቸጋሪ ፈተናዎች እንደገጠሙት ገልጸዋል፡፡ ከእነዚህም መካከል በለንደን ሒትሮው ዓለም አቀፍ አውሮፕላን ማረፊያ ቆሞ በነበረው ድሪምላይነር አውሮፕላን ላይ የተከሰተው ችግር አንዱ መሆኑን ገልጸዋል፡፡

Ethiopia's crucial World Cup qualifier away to Central African Republic in September has been moved to neutral Republic of Congo, the Ethiopian Football Federation said on Wednesday.

Football's world governing body Fifa took the decision because of security reasons after after CAR's president was overthrown this year.
The final Group A game match has been relocated to Brazzaville.
Fifa has also switched Senegal's decisive final Group J game against Uganda to Morocco because of the ban on Senegal's main football stadium.
Both games are scheduled for 7 September.
Ethiopia now must win to guarantee its progression to Africa's 10-team play-offs for next year's World Cup after it forfeited a victory over Botswana for fielding an ineligible player earlier in the competition.
A draw could be enough for the Ethiopians depending on the result of South Africa's game with Botswana on the same day.

ኢትዮጵያ ከመካከለኛው አፍሪካ ሪፐብሊክ ጋር በኮንጎ ብራዛቪል ላለባት የአለም ዋንጫ ማጣሪያ ጨዋታ አይናለም ሀይሉን፣ አዲስ ህንጻንና ጀማል ጣሰውን እንደማታሰልፍ ፊፋ አሳወቀ፡፡

ተጨዋቾቹ የማይሰለፉት በማጣሪያ ጨዋታዎች ካርድ የተመለከቱ በመሆናቸው እንደሆነ ፊፋ አስታዉቋል፡፡

በጨዋታው የማይስለፉ ተጨዋቾችን ለመተካት ለብሄራዊ ቡድኑ ከባድ ፈተና እንደሚሆን እየተነገረ ነው፡፡

Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, Seleshi Sihine

LONDON, England (AFP) - Mo Farah, Kenenisa Bekele and Haile Gebrselassie are to race in this year's Great North Run in northeast England, organisers said on Tuesday, calling the line-up the "greatest head-to-head in half-marathon history".
"We've had many fantastic races down the Newcastle to South Shields course in past years but this will be a competition everyone in the athletics world will want to watch," said race founder Brendan Foster.

"No one could ask for a better 'dream team' to participate in their event and we are delighted they will feature in what has the makings of the greatest head-to-head in half marathon history," the 1976 Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist added.
The Great North Run, to be held this year on September 15, began as a local fun run in 1981 and has grown to become one of the world's biggest mass participation road races.
Farah, the reigning 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion, has a personal best in the half-marathon of 1hr 00.23secs and will be aiming to be the first home-grown winner of the Great North Run since Steve Kenyon in 1985.

NEWBURYPORT — Six natives of Ethiopia achieved their goal last evening of running fast 10-mile road races in Newburyport, collecting prize money, and returning to their respective residences in New York City.
The Ethiopian sweep marked the first time in three years an American fell short of a Provident Bank Yankee Homecoming 10-Mile Road Race men’s title. A New Hampshire resident won the men’s race in each of the previous two races. That trend came to an end in resounding fashion, as African-born distance runners reasserted their dominance in a race that offers $4,300 in prize money. From 2005 to 2007, Ethiopia native Alene Reta won three consecutive Yankee Homecoming 10-mile titles. However, from 2008 to 2012, Americans won the title in four of the five years.

Somalia Polio Outbreak Places Ethiopia at Risk

NAIROBI, KENYA — Somalia’s Ministry of Health confirms there are now 94 cases of polio in south-central Somalia and the outbreak is showing no signs of slowing down. New cases of the disease near the border with Ethiopia have also put that country at risk.

The polio outbreak, first identified in May in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, is spreading throughout Somalia, according to Dr. Yassin Nur, head of immunization at Somalia’s Ministry of Health.

He said another case also has been confirmed in the autonomous region of Somaliland, close to Ethiopia, and could easily be transmitted across the border.

“The risk is there,” Nur said. “Not to mention that Ethiopia is having a very long border and porous border with Somalia and it would be very easy to have the outbreak in Ethiopia.”

Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn make a joint press statement at State House, Nairobi on April 24, 2013.

A high-powered delegation of Kenyan businessmen and government officials is currently in Ethiopia as the two countries look to ramp up trade ties that have over the years remained week despite sharing a sizeable border.

The 40 traders representing some 30 companies will during the July 29-31 visit will meet Ethiopia prime minister Hailemariam Desalgn as well as scout for investment opportunities in the populous country of 85 million.

Under the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, it is the largest delegation yet of Kenyans to its northern neighbour and the first in seven years. The visit comes nine months after PM Hailemariam visited Kenya where a Special Status Agreement (SSA) was signed between the two countries.

They are looking to expand bilateral trade that is currently worth only $50 billion and which is heavily tilted in favour of Kenya, and a huge market of some 125 million people.

በሳዑዲ አረቢያ ኢትዮጵያዊት የቤት ሰራተኛ በአሰሪዎቿ ቤት በኤሌክትሪክ ገመድ አንገቷን በማነቅ እና ከወንበር በመዝለል ራሷን ማጥፋቷን ኤሚሬትስ 247 የተሰኘ ድረ ገፅ ዘገበ፡፡አፍላጅ በተሰኘ አካባቢ የሚኖረው አሰሪዋ ሰራተኛው በመኝታ ክፍሏ ውስጥ ታንቃ እንዳገኛት ለፖሊስ መናገሩን ድረ ገፁ ዘግቧል፡፡የኢትዮጵያዊቷ ሞት ገና በመጣራት ላይ መሆኑን ድረ ገፁ ጨምሮ ገልጿል፡፡

ወንዶች

800 ሜትር - መሃመድ አማን እና አማን ዎቴ

1500 ሜትር- አብዮት አብነት፤መኮንን ገብረ መድህን እና አማን ዎቴ

5000 ሜትር- የኔው አላምረው፤ሙክታር ኢድሪስ፤ሃጎስ ገብረ ህይወት

10000 ሜትር - ደጀን ገብረ መስቀል፤ኢብራሂም ጄይላን፤አበራ ኩማ፤ኢማና መርጊያ

ማራቶን - ፀጋዬ ከበደ፤ሌሊሳ ዴሲሳ፤ፈይሳ ሌሊሳ፤ታደሰ ቶላ፤ጥላሁን ረጋሳ

3000 ሜትር መሰናክል - ሮባ ጋሪ፤ሃታሙ ጃለታ

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800 ሜትር - ፋንቱ ሜጌሶ

1500 ሜትር- ገለቴ ቡርቃ፤ገንዘቤ ዲባባ፤ሰንቢራ ተፈሪ

5000 ሜትር - አልማዝ አያና፤መሰረት ደፋር፤ጥሩነሽ ዲባባ

10000 ሜትር - መሰረት ደፋር፤ጥሩነሽ ዲባባ፤በላይነሽ ኦልጂራ

ማራቶን - ቲኪ ገላና፤መሰረት ሃይሉ፤መሰለች መልካሙ፤መሪማ መሃመድ፤ፈይሳ ታደሰ

3000 ሜትር መሰናክል- ሶፊያ አሰፋ፤ህይወት አያሌው፤እቴነሽ ዲሮ

Two of Ethiopia’s biggest athletics stars will attempt a long-distance double at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow on 10-18 August.
Three-time Olympic gold medallist Tirunesh Dibaba and double Olympic champion Meseret Defar have both been selected in the 5000m and 10,000m. Dibaba won gold in both events at the 2005 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games, but her attempt at the same double at last year’s Olympic Games was ruined by Defar, who triumphed in the 5000m.
Defar has attempted distance doubles at the past two World Championships, but neither bid went to plan. She took 5000m bronze on both occasions, but finished fifth in the 10,000m in 2009 and did not finish the 25-lap event in 2011.

BEIRUT: An Ethiopian woman was arrested Tuesday at Beirut airport after customs officers found drugs hidden in her luggage.
Customs officers confiscated 6.6 kilograms of khat hidden in the woman’s luggage, a security source told The Daily Star.
The woman, whose name was not released, was arriving from Addis Ababa, the source said.
She was referred to the anti-drug bureau for interrogation, the source added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb

Ethiopia Habtemariam, Senior VP of Motown, Makes Billboard’s 40 Under 40 List

In her dual role, Ethiopia Habtemariam, 33, maintains one single focus: “Quality songwriters, producers and artists who will have careers for a long time. Nothing novelty,” she says. Universal Music Publishing Group’s urban division is having a hot year, thanks to Miguel (his own “Adorn” as well as work on Janelle Monáe’s new album The Electric Lady) and chart successes penned by roster mates J. Cole (his No. 1 Billboard 200 album Born Sinner), Rock City (Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Ciara) and Ester Dean (Selena Gomez). Another UMPG artist, Big Sean, will release his sophomore set on Aug. 27. Also on the roster: Def Jam singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko. Launching its revamp last November with Ne-Yo’s R.E.D. (which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200), Motown recently scored top 10 R&B album debuts with Chrisette Michele and India.Arie. Habtemariam is ramping up several forthcoming projects, including a Babyface and Toni Braxton duets album and one with Erykah Badu. Also on the Motown docket: projects by newcomers B. Smyth, Stacy Barthe (another UMPG urban roster member), Kevin Ross, BJ the Chicago Kid and Scotty Rebel.

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Eritrea ‘continues support’ to Somalia’s Al-Shabab, says Ethiopia

July 29, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – In fresh allegations made by Ethiopia on Monday, the East African nation said that efforts to maintain peace and stability in Somalia is taking longer due to Eritrea’s continued support of the Islamist militia group, Al-Shabab.
The Ethiopian government said despite ongoing efforts by regional governments and the African Union peace keeping force (AMISOM), Eritrea continues to undermine peace efforts in war-ravaged Somalia.
“Although relative peace and security is gained in Somalia, Eritrea didn’t reduce its support to Al-Shabab and remains to be a destabilising influence”, Ethiopia’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Dina Mufti, told Sudan Tribune.
“Eritrea continues to violate UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and the country absolutely remains to be a regional security threat”, he added.
The Ethiopian government said it has its own, as well as international evidence to support its latest allegations against the secretive Red Sea nation.
Mufti said there was a need for tightened sanctions to cripple Eritrea’s negative role across the volatile East African region.

Analysts: New Leadership Slow to Bring Change to Ethiopia

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, who is also the current chairperson of the African Union, speaks during a joint press conference at the end of the African Union Summit in Abuja, July 16, 2013. (AFP)

ADDIS ABABA — It has been almost one year since Hailemariam Desalegn came to power in Ethiopia, following the death of his predecessor Meles Zenawi. Despite recent demonstrations and a cabinet shuffle, little seems to have changed in the East African country.

After weeks of speculation, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's death was announced last year, on the morning of August 21st. The passing of the longtime ruler made way for his deputy Hailemariam Desalegn, to lead the second most populous nation on the African continent.

Ethiopia witnessed several anti-government demonstrations in recent months, a rare sight. And the new prime minister also replaced most of the cabinet.

But a spokesperson for the prime minister, Getachew Redda, said these developments are not part of any fundamental change within the government.

NAIROBI, KENYA: An Ethiopian national who was among drug lords deported last month over involvement in narcotics trafficking has been arrested in Nairobi's Eastleigh area.
Police sayÂ Solomon Walde Haulu, 76 sneaked back to the country at undisclosed date and hid in Eastleigh where he was arrested on Thursday night. He had been deported on June 11 for being in Kenya illegally and over accusations of being a drug trafficker.
He was linked to local and international drug trafficking network despite his old age. He also operated a major gang in Nigeria section of Mathare slums, which police say is the main supply point of hard drugs in the city.

Saudi Arabian police have spoken out in defence of Ethiopian maids working in the kingdom, describing accusations against them as “exaggerated” and unnecessarily causing panic among households.
A spate of allegations accusing Ethiopian maids of murdering children in their care led the Saudi government to temporarily ban the recruitment of Ethiopian maids while investigations continued.
Some also have taken to social media websites, calling for the deportation of all Ethiopian domestic workers.
However, a Jeddah Police spokeswoman said the assumption that such alleged crimes was widespread was wrong.

The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Banchi Urgeha: Africa's New Entrepreneurs

Over a year ago, news of an economic miracle in Africa -- or rather, a number of them -- was starting to catch on. At a time when most G20 economies are dealing with slow growth in the wake of a global recession, a number of African nations have been enjoying impressive and steady economic growth rates.
Reasons for the growth ranged from increased investment in infrastructure and healthy commodity prices to increased use of mobile and digital technology. Demographically, the "young" continent is also poised to reap the benefits of a workforce bulge in its productive years.

But this year, the growth of African economies has been called into question, with arguments in Foreign Policy magazine saying manufacturing growth in has, in fact, stagnated, while the indicators many were citing were not substantial enough to bolster the optimism around Africa. Pro-African rebuttals followed.
Whether or not this rise is "real" and sustainable, The Agenda found there is a movement afoot in Africa and other developing regions that is helping build a new entrepreneurial class.

Teenage Ethiopian Americans bring parents’ music to life

Music often divides generations, but one group of Ethiopian Americans in California are challenging that norm. They've embraced music from their parents' generation and are playing it in their band.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that kids hate their parents’ music, or at least do their best to ignore it.
Garage bands don’t borrow CDs from their parents so they can practice disco covers. Unless it's in some kind of ironic hipster way.
There’s nothing ironic about the music being played in one particular suburban garage near Oakland, Calif. The Young Ethio Jazz Band are teenagers who rock out with their parents’ music.
The band played its first gig in San Francisco last winter. Now it's slated to open for another act at Yoshi’s, a famous jazz club in San Francisco, and then it plays in the Ethiopian Heritage Festival at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

The five-piece French band Akalé Wubé revisit the golden age of Ethio-jazz, the famous "Swingin' Addis" of the 70s.

A20 WMM 28 juillet 2013 - Akalé Wubé

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Like many French musicians, they discovered Ethio-jazz via the series of recordings known as Ethiopiques, compiled by Francis Falceto.
Using flute, saxophone, drums, bass, trumpet and the traditional Ethiopian lyre known as a krar, the young Parisians return to the past, reinterpreting the sounds of the greats like Mulatu Astatke and Getatchew Mekurya but in a markedly modern way.
In this broadcast they talk to us about their love of this music and how Ethiopians in Addis reacted when they took their Western versions "back home".
You'll hear them interpret the Ethio-jazz classic Gubelye by Mulatu Astatke, which gained international renown in the film Broken Flowers by Jim Jarmusch, along with traditional pieces Erikum and Memona, which are not yet available on record.
They performed in RFI's studios for La Bande Passante - our daily music show in French.
http://www.english.rfi.fr/

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Egypt Rules Out War With Ethiopia Over Nile River Hydropower Dam

Egypt has no plans to go to war with Ethiopia over the Horn of Africa nation’s construction of a hydropower dam on the Nile River, said Mona Omar, special envoy for Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour.
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi told supporters last month his government will “defend each drop of Nile water with our blood.” Mursi, overthrown by the army on July 3, had a failed foreign policy and Egypt plans to negotiate with Ethiopia about the dam, Omar told reporters today in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

The last of three Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center parking attendants convicted of stealing $1.4 million in visitor-parking fees was sentenced today to more than three years in prison.

Abeselom Hailemariam, 33, of Alexandria, was sentenced to 40 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay approximately $1.4 million in restitution for his role in a conspiracy to steal the same amount in visitor-parking fees from the Smithsonian Institution museum in Chantilly.

Ethiopia halts issuing work visas to Saudi Arabia

July 25, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) -The Ethiopian government has suspended issuing work visas to business migrants from Saudi Arabia, according to a source from the Ethiopian ministry of labour and social affairs.
The decision follows Saudi Arabia’s ban last week on domestic labourers from Ethiopia, forcing tens of thousands of undocumented Ethiopian workers to leave the kingdom.
The Ethiopian official, who is not authorised to speak to the media, told Sudan Tribune on Thursday that Ethiopian authorities had revoked up to 35,000 work visas for housemaids destined for work in Saudi Arabia.

Women pray during a Sunday service at St. Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Church. There are more than 30,000 Ethiopian immigrants in the Denver area, but because of countless languages and past political alliances, their culture is divided. (Grant Hindsley, The Denver Post)

As America counted down to the bicentennial of its Declaration of Independence in 1976, Yoseph Tafari was taking the first steps toward winning his own freedom. The 21-year-old organizer in the anti-Marxist movement in Ethiopia staggered alone toward the Sahara Desert, the mountains of his native Ethiopia shrinking behind him with each stride.

To escape the military junta that had marked him for death, Tafari spent four days in the wilderness, until goatherds found him and took him to the dry riverbed that marked the Sudan border near Kurmuk.

He risked death because death seemed certain.

"It's not death that you fear," he explained. "It's the torture. These were very brutal people."

Like other refugees, Tafari never returned, though he continues to

Ethiopia second poorest nation in the world - The African Economist

You probably heard that Ethiopia has been a fast growing economy in the content recording very high growth rate not just in Africa but the world as well. Yet the new measurement known as the Multidimensional Poverty Index, or MPI, that will replace the Human Poverty index in the United Nations’ annual Human Development Report says that Ethiopia has the second highest percentage of people who are MPI poor in the world, with only the west African nation of Niger fairing worse. This comes as more international analysts have also began to question the accuracy of the Meles government’s double digit economic growth claims and similar disputed government statistics referred by institutions like the IMF.

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Letter From Ethiopia’s Gulag

By ESKINDER NEGA

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — I AM jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. For all of us, there are only three toilets. Most of the inmates sleep on the floor, which has never been swept. About 1,000 prisoners share the small open space here at Kaliti Prison. One can guess our fate if a communicable disease breaks out.

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia’s overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the “planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt” of terrorist acts. In reality, the law has been used as a pretext to detain journalists who criticize the government. Last July, I was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

I’ve never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn’t reform. The state’s main evidence against me was a YouTube video of me, saying this at a public meeting. I also dared to question the government’s ludicrous claim that jailed journalists were terrorists.

How An Ethiopian Bean Became The Cinderella Of Coffee

As we reported during in April, coffee aficionados for single-origin roasts.
The professional prospectors working for specialty coffee companies will travel far and wide, Marco Polo-style, to discover that next champion bean.
But to the farmers who hope to be that next great discovery, the emergence of this new coffee aristocracy is less Marco Polo, more Cinderella: How do you get your coffee bean to the ball?
Consider this tale of impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers whose beans once sold for rock bottom prices:
The yellowed highlands around the city of Jimma in Ethiopia are where coffee in the 8^th century. But by the end of the 20^th century, its reputation had become as shaky as a car ride on its mountain roads.
, a coffee agronomist for the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization , says most of the coffee here is labeled Jimma 5, because it has all five major defects that come from poor farming.

"The types of defects that you have include overripe beans, which are called foxies, and under-ripe beans, which are called quakers," says Cervone. There are also cracked beans, and beans chewed by insects.
"But the worst of them all, which is called a stinker, which means that you've basically left a bean fermenting for much longer than you should and it becomes rotten, and it's basically like putting a rotten egg in an omelet. It kind of ruins the entire cup," he says.
Jimma 5 was so bad it became the trade term for bad coffee in Ethiopia, according to Cervone.
And yet ask one of the farmers here, Haleuya Habagaro, and she'll tell you her coffee isn't just not bad — it's exquisite.
"When I roast the coffee, people come to ask where that strong fruity smell is coming from," says Habagaro. "It's like when you hold an orange."

So how did her citrus-y coffee get such a sludge-y reputation, commanding even lower prices than the Jimma 5 baseline? She blames the local buyers.

Wosene Worke Kosrof

Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke Kosrof explores the aesthetic potential of symbols from the Amharic script.
He began distorting the symbols of his language 35 years ago and it is now an integral part of his work.
His exhibition Wordplay is being shown at London's newly opened Gallery of African Art.
He told BBC Africa's Jenny Horrocks how he came to work in this way.
Listen his interview with the BBC

Saudi 'princess' spends millions on perfume, 'swindles' property, winds up in court

A SUPPOSED Saudi princess claimed yesterday that she is so wealthy she has splashed out $1.5 million on perfume in the past two months.
Her spree has created an Aladdin's cave-style display of opulence which has to be seen to be believed, the High Court heard.
Sara Al Amoudi is accused of being a one-time penniless Ethiopian prostitute who posed as a princess to swindle London property developers Amanda Clutterbuck and Ian Paton out of luxury flats worth $23 million.
But yesterday the mysterious 'princess' - whose age has been given as between 31 and 45 - wept in court as she assured the judge she had never been an impoverished prostitute, that her wealth was genuine and that she had been on the shopping sprees to prove it.

INTERVIEW-Ethiopian troops quit Somali city, but no full withdrawal planned

Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom

* Troops began leaving ex-rebel stronghold last week
* Ethiopia to keep troops in more unstable areas -minister
* Accuses Eritrea of supporting al Shabaab militants
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA, July 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia has begun pulling troops out of a former rebel stronghold in Somalia, but it has no plans for a complete withdrawal from the fight against al Qaeda-linked insurgents, its foreign minister said on Monday.
Somalia has enjoyed relative calm after military offensives by African Union (AMISOM) peacekeepers and Ethiopian troops, who have pushed al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab from urban strongholds in central and southern Somalia.

Scars reveal some of the extent of the torture endured by sub-Saharan refugees after becoming ensnared by human traffickers on the Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt’s lawless Sinai Peninsula is a living hell for thousands of refugees from sub-Saharan Africa who are being kidnapped and tortured by a network of rapacious human traffickers.
Most of the refugees are Eritrean Christians; others are from Ethiopia and Sudan.
“We have an idea about hell from the Bible,” said Yonas Habte, a 32-year-old Eritrean Pentecostal Christian who was trapped by the traffickers. “In Sinai, I saw hell.”
The traffickers chain together groups of men and women; pour molten plastic on their bodies; deprive them of food, water and sleep; subject them to vicious beatings and electric shocks; and force them to smoke hashish and rape one another, according to survivors interviewed by The Washington Times.
“They forced us to behave like animals,” Mr. Habte said in a phone interview from Cairo, where he was released in May after his sister in Australia paid a $40,000 ransom.
In Eritrea, Mr. Habte was persecuted because of his religion.
“Our church was locked. We couldn’t even pray to our own God,” he said.
In December, he fled to Sudan in search of a better life but became trapped in a vicious network of extortionists.

An Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia pushed the four-year-old son of her employer on a boiling milk pot, causing severe burns to his body.

It was the latest in a series of attacks by Ethiopian domestic workers on children at their employer’s houses in Saudi Arabia, which last week said it was halting the hiring of housemaids from that east African country.

A maid hanged herself in the kitchen of her employer in Umm Al Quwain.

UAQ Police said the body of the Ethiopian maid was found hanging by a rope from the ceiling of her Emirati employer’s home on Friday afternoon.
The Ethiopian is believed to have committed suicide, according to police.
A senior officer at UAQ Police said the maid’s employer informed the force after one of the family members found her dead.

25% housemaids sent back within 2 months of arrival

Saudi Gazette report

DAMMAM – One-hundred-and-fifty applications to recruit female Ethiopian workers have been cancelled, Alsharq daily reported on Sunday.

Recruitment companies also revealed that 25 percent of Ethiopian housemaids that came to Kingdom so far were returned within months due to their alleged strange conduct and beliefs.

Director General of the Executive Office for the Council of Health Ministers in the GCC countries and Secretary General of the Federation of Arab Hospitals Tawfiq Khoja said crimes committed by these housemaids in the Kingdom over the last two years, including killing of children, were motivated by their beliefs.

10 things that make Ethiopia extraordinary-CNN Travel

Freebies on an Ethiopian road trip: the extraordinary views around every corner.

Fairy tale castles, superb coffee and the Ark of the Covenant (OK, possibly) are just some of the unexpected attractions of this African country
What sets Ethiopia apart from its African neighbors?
The excellent coffee?
The fact that it was never colonized?
Or that Rastafarians regard it as their spiritual home?
Or could it be the smooth, well-maintained roads, so rare on the continent, that make exploring the country by car such a joy?
After a 1,430-kilometer drive through Ethiopia's Northern Circuit -- up mountains, through Martian-like landscapes, into lost kingdoms of yore -- we found 10 crucial things that define the country.

ብራዚል ለከርሞ በምታዘጋጀው የዓለም ዋንጫ ተካፋይ ለመሆን እየተደረገ ባለው ማጣሪያ የኢትዮጵያ ብሔራዊ ቡድን ምድቡን በ10 ነጥብ ይመራል፡፡ ከማዕከላዊ አፍሪካ ጋር አንድ የመጨረሻና ወሳኝ ጨዋታ ከሜዳው ውጪ ይጠብቀዋል፡፡

የኢትዮጵያ ቡድን ከማዕከላዊ አፍሪካ ጋር ከሜዳው ውጪ አንድ ጨዋታ እየቀረው ወደ ቀጣዩ አንድ የደርሶ መልስ ጨዋታ ማለፉን ባረጋገጠ ማግስት፣ ፊፋ የኢትዮጵያ ቡድን ቦትስዋናን ገጥሞ ያሸነፈው ‹‹ተገቢ ያልሆነ ተጫዋች አሰልፎ ነው›› በሚል በደረሰው መረጃ መሠረት ሦስት ነጥብና ሦስት ጐል ከኢትዮጵያ ቡድን ላይ እንዲቀነስ መወሰኑም ይታወሳል፡፡

Egypt will try reach a solution for its conflict with Ethiopia about a dam on the Nile river, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said.
“We will take action to guarantee the water security of Egypt and preserve our rights in the waters of the Nile,” he told a televised press conference in Cairo today. “We call on the Ethiopian side to respond.”
Ethiopia this year decided to proceed with the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, planned as Africa’s largest hydropower plant, ignoring Egypt’s concern that its water supply would be reduced.

Ethiopian Maid tries to kill 6-year-old in bathroom

An Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia tried to kill her employer’s six-year-old daughter while bathing her but was overpowered by the girl’s father.

The Saudi man told police he was peering into the bathroom by accident when he saw the maid trying to strangle his daughter.

The story of the musician who is huge and then disappears has become a stock trope but the stories are always fascinating.
There’s the one-hit-wonder; the musician who has a big hit, people forget them, only to return years later and perform the song at an oldies concert.
Then there’s the jazz man variation; the player who descends into drugs/alcohol/depression, and then years later, is gently coaxed out of their misery to great acclaim.
Then there’s the Hailu Mergia.
Hailu Mergia was a pop star in Ethiopia in the 60s and 70s.
He came to the US in the early 80′s, forged his way for several years, and is now driving a taxi in Washington DC.
Anchor, Marco Werman speaks with Hailu Mergia from his cab.
http://www.theworld.org

Ethiopian migrants tell of torture and rape in Yemen

Efta is just 17 but has experienced shocking brutality.

The Ethiopian teenager survived a treacherous boat journey being smuggled across the Red Sea.
But on reaching Yemen, she was kidnapped and driven at gunpoint to a mud brick house.
She said: "They tortured other girls in front of me. They beat us and they raped us at gunpoint. I was terrified."
She is one of 80,000 Ethiopian migrants who undertake this dangerous journey every year.
They hope they will find work in the wealthy Gulf state of Saudi Arabia and be able to send money home.

But they risk being exploited by criminal gangs and the Yemeni military in the 500 km (310 miles) trek across Yemen to the Saudi border.

Obsa's visa in his passport.

When 15-year-old Obsa Paulos Gudina travelled to Ethiopia in January, he expected to spend time reconnecting with his family. Instead, he finds himself in an adult prison facing a long jail sentence for what his mother says was a tragic accident.

Invited by his older sister to stay at her home while he completed a three-month photography course, Obsa, an Australian citizen, was excited to see his birth country again and to spend time with his nephews and nieces. However, just as he was preparing to return to Australia, his holiday went horribly wrong.

On April 16, Obsa and a friend were getting ready for a birthday party while his nieces, nephews and the housekeeper watched television in the main bedroom. Obsa's mother, Tsehai Atomsa, told Fairfax Media through an interpreter that her son had entered the room to search for his phone charger and found a gun in the drawer of a bedside table.

''He just started handling it, playing with it. My son was pointing the gun at the wall … and then, by accident, the gun shot off and hit my granddaughter in the neck,'' Ms Atomsa said through tears at her western suburbs home. Despite being taken immediately to hospital, 13-year-old Fenet Dinku died 45 minutes later.

British accident investigators determined that an emergency device was probably responsible for the fire that broke out last week on an empty Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner parked at London's Heathrow Airport and advised airlines to disable it on all planes.
In addition, Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch issued a “special bulletin” Thursday urging U.S. regulators to conduct an extensive safety review.
The Federal Aviation Administration will now have to decide what to do about the device, which is installed on the worldwide problem-plagued 787 fleet and thousands of other commercial airplane
The British accident investigation team’s initial three-page report outlines what happened on the Ethiopian Airlines plane and its emergency locator transmitter, which emits signals to emergency crews in crisis situations.

Get high in Ethiopia

A helicopter safari in Ethiopia is intense: one minute you're above the clouds, taking in vast plains, mountains, distant clusters of monolithic churches - the next you've swooped in for an eye-popping close-up. Rodney Bolt holds on tight. Photographs by David Crookes
The black kite floated in midair, single feathers on the tips of its wings splayed like ﬁngers as it paused, turned slightly, then dropped earthwards in an instant, to a treasure only it could see. With a beat or two it was up again, circling higher and higher over the Addis Ababa trafﬁc, and away to the hills. The ﬁrst scene to grab me in a new city, after leaving the hurly-burly of the airport, always makes an indelible mark. In Addis, it was that black kite - and it proved a ﬁtting image for what Ethiopia had in store. Within hours I'd be off on a helicopter safari across the northern highlands: drifting over mountaintops, swooping down to savour some delight below, then ﬂying off across vast, open landscapes. In a region of rough roads and long, dusty journeys, I'd be ﬂitting with ease from ancient, rock-hewn churches to dizzily high escarpments, the chopper reducing travel hours to mere minutes.

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