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Many in Ethiopia are reeling from the news that several Ethiopians were killed in Libya by the Islamic State group, which over the weekend released a video purporting to show the killings.<br>
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The killings, which have shocked many in the predominantly Christian country, were condemned by Pope Francis and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.<br>
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The victims were planning to go to Europe by boat from Libya but were captured and then killed by the Islamic extremists, said grieving family members and government officials. Ethiopia's government on Monday declared three days of mourning.<br>
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Pope Francis on Monday sent a letter to the patriarch of Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church, Abuna Matthias, expressing "distress and sadness" at the "further shocking violence perpetrated against innocent Christians in Libya.<br>
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Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa has won the elite men's Boston Marathon and Caroline Rotich of Kenya finished first in the elite women's division.<br>
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Delisa, who previously won the race in 2013, won today with a time of 2:09:17. Yemane Adhane Tsegay (2:09:48), also of Ethiopia, finished second; Kenyans Wilson Chebet (2:10:22) and Bernard Kipyego finished third and fourth, respectively. Dathan Ritzenhein, seventh, was the highest-placed American. Defending champion Meb Keflezighi, also American, finished eighth in 2:12:42.<br>
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Rotich crossed the finish line on Boylston Street with a time of 2:24:55. Mare Didaba (2:24:59) and Buzunesh Deba (2:25:09), both of Ethiopia, finished second and third. American Desiree Linden finished fourth with a time of 2:25:39.<br>
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Desisa last won the race in 2013 — the same year as the deadly bombing near the race's finish line. He returned his medal to the city in honor of those killed and wounded.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yikanu Yelma, Soliyana Shimeles' mother, describes the search of her house by security forces following the arrests of the Zone9 bloggers. Her daughter Soliyana, who has been charged in absentia, was out of country during the arrest, and is one of three Zone9 members who now live abroad. (Simona Foltyn/Washington Post)</td></tr>
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<span class="dateline">ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia —</span>
They met online in 2010 while raising money for a charity case: nine
young, university-educated Ethiopian professionals. Eventually, they
decided to launch a blog about social and civic issues in Africa’s
second-most-populous nation. <br>
“Initially, it was not about
political activism or about criticizing the government. It was to
connect with like-minded people,” said Soliyana Shimeles, 28, one of the
founders of the blog Zone 9.<br>
Today, six of the bloggers are in
jail facing terrorism charges in what human rights and press-freedom
advocates call an example of an alarming crackdown on government
critics. <br>
The Zone 9 bloggers are accused of “creating serious
risk to the safety or health of the public” under the country’s
controversial anti-terrorism law passed in 2009. The charges further
allege the bloggers were linked to Ginbot 7, an opposition movement
based abroad that the government labeled a terrorist group in 2011. The
bloggers have pleaded innocent.<br>
Their attorney, Ameha Mekonnen,
has complained that the charges offer few particulars. The trial began
at the end of March but was adjourned until after the national elections
in May. If convicted, the defendants could receive death sentences.<br>
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The White House Sunday evening condemned a video purportedly showing a
mass execution of Ethiopian Christians in Libya by terrorists
affiliated with Islamic State.<br>
"We express our condolences to the families of the victims and our
support to the Ethiopian government and people as they grieve for their
fellow citizens," National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette
Meehan said in a statement. "That these terrorists killed these men
solely because of their faith lays bare the terrorists' vicious,
senseless brutality."<br>
In the video released Sunday, Islamic State militants in Libya shot
and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians. The attack widens
the circle of nations affected by the group's atrocities while showing
its growth beyond a self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.<br>
The release of the 29-minute video comes a day after Afghanistan's
president blamed the extremists for a suicide attack in his country that
killed at least 35 people -- and underscores the chaos gripping Libya
after its 2011 civil war and the killing of dictator Muammar Qaddafi.<br>
It also mirrored a film released in February showing militants
beheading 21 captured Egyptian Christians on a Libyan beach, which
immediately drew Egyptian airstrikes on the group's suspected positions
in Libya. Whether Ethiopia would -- or could -- respond with similar
military force remains unclear.<br>
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Boat capsizes after passengers rush to one side<br>
ROME—As many as 700 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, piling pressure on European leaders who have been stymied in their search for a solution to the migration problem by rising anti-immigration sentiment, chaos in Libya and the crush of asylum seekers in some countries.<br>
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According to the Italian Coast Guard, a 20-meter-long fishing boat, which was heavily overcrowded and had departed from Libya, launched a distress call during the night Saturday. The Italians sent a Portuguese mercantile vessel, the King Jacob, to help the boat, but when the migrants, all sub-Saharan Africans, saw the ship approach, they rushed to one side, capsizing the boat, said the coast guard.<br>
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ADDIS ABABA, April 19 (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Sunday it had not been able to verify that about 30 people shown in a video being shot and beheaded by Islamic State in Libya were<br />
Ethiopian Christians, but said it condemned the "atrocious act." "We have seen the video but our embassy in Cairo has not been able to confirm that the victims are Ethiopian nationals,"<br />
government spokesman Redwan Hussein told Reuters. "Nonetheless, the Ethiopian government condemns the atrocious act."<br />
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He said Ethiopia, which does not have an embassy in Libya, would help repatriate Ethiopians if they wanted to leave Libya. <br />
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ISIS group on Sunday released a video purporting to show the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya.<br>
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Video released online shows one group of captives being shot and another group being beheaded on a beach.<br>
A new video from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) purportedly shows the group killing captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya.<br>
The 29-minute video released online on Sunday shows two groups of dark-skinned captives. It says one group is held by an ISIL affiliate in eastern Libya and the other by an affiliate in the south.<br>
A masked fighter delivers a long statement before the video switches between footage of the captives in the south being shot to death and the captives in the east being beheaded on a beach.<br>
The footage released online shows one group of about 12 men being beheaded by armed men on a beach and another group of at least 16 being shot in the head in a desert area.<br>
It was not immediately clear who the captives were.<br>
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Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard says.<br>
A major rescue operation is under way after the vessel carrying "between 500 and 700 migrants" capsized at midnight local time, in Libyan waters south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.<br>
So far 28 people have been rescued.<br>
Earlier this week, 400 people were feared to have drowned when their vessel capsized north of Libya.<br>
'Biggest tragedy'<br>
Italian ships, the Maltese Navy and commercial vessels are all involved in the rescue operation, 130 miles (210km) off the coast of Lampedusa and 17 miles (27km) from the Libyan coast.<br>
The Italian coastguard's spokesman told the BBC the operation was still focused on search and rescue, "but in time it will be a search [for bodies] only".<br>
Twenty ships and three helicopters were currently involved in the rescue, he added.<br>
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said rescuers were "literally trying to find people alive among the dead floating in the water".<br>
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BOSTON —Athletes from Ethiopia took the top spots in today’s seventh annual BAA Invitational Mile on the streets of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Dejen Gebremeskel and Dawit Seyaum broke the blue Boston Athletic Association finish tapes on Boylston Street just a few meters from the Boston Marathon finish line in 4:04.1 and 4:35.4, respectively. Seyaum’s time was an event record.<br>
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Gebremeskel, the 2012 Olympic 5000m silver medalist, decided from the starter’s gun that a hard early pace was the best route to victory. After the first of three circuits, he had a small lead on Britain’s Chris O’Hare and America’s Duncan Phillips, but expanded his lead to two seconds by the end of the second lap. In the final circuit, Gebremeskel overwhelmed the field, leaving O’Hare nearly three seconds behind by the finish.<br>
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Many refugees and asylum-seekers from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea say they have nowhere else to go <br>
Tens of thousands of East African refugees and asylum-seekers are at
risk of being left behind in Yemen’s roiling violence, deprived not only
of safe options for evacuation but also of a home country that might
take them in, activists and U.N. officials said this week.<br>
Since pitched fighting between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and forces loyal
to the ousted president erupted in March, escape from the country <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/9/lawsuit-filed-against-us-govt-for-failure-to-save-americans-in-yemen.html">has been arduous even for foreign citizens</a> and
wealthy Yemenis. Airports are under fire and commercial transportation
cut off, forcing the most desperate to charter simple power boats and
make harrowing journeys across the Red Sea.<br>
But for the over 250,000 registered Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean
refugees and asylum-seekers, the situation is even more trying. The U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners have a
contingency plan to receive 100,000 refugees in Somalia’s relatively
stable regions of Somaliland and Puntland, and another 30,000 in
Djibouti, but that process will unfold over the next six months. And it
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Ethiopia's parliamentary elections are set to be held May 24th, but there is little doubt the ruling party will win an overwhelming majority amidst a crackdown on independent media and political dissidents. This week on Global Journalist, we look at why and how the restrictions on the media in Africa's second-most populous country began, and speak with a journalist who spent more than a year in prison for reporting.<br />
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<li><a href="http://journalism.uoregon.edu/user/endalkac/" target="_blank">Endalk Chala</a>, a co-founder of <a href="http://zone9ethio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Zone 9</a>, a group of bloggers advocating human rights and free speech in Ethiopia.</li>
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<span class="firstwords">Jelani Nelson lights up</span>
when he talks about algorithms. The soft-spoken assistant professor of
computer science is a rising star in a field made vital as data
proliferate exponentially faster than the growth of computational power
or storage. Algorithms, well-defined procedures for carrying out
computational tasks, speed the way to answers. Nelson has a knack for
speed: online, where he is known as “minilek”—a handle chosen in youth
when he was growing up on St. Thomas, and derived from the name of an
early ruler of Ethiopia, whence his mother hails—he has excelled with
equal ease in coding competitions and typing contests (topping out above
200 words per minute). Though he is a theorist now, solving real
problems quickly “cements the concepts in your mind,” he says. <br>
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The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) says it is terminating the contract of head coach Mariano Barreto.
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The Portuguese, a former Ghana coach, took charge of the Walia Antelopes last year, signing a two year contract.
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But a disappointing reign saw Ethiopia finish bottom of their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group.
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An official statement, sent to BBC Sport, says the EFF
will pay an undisclosed amount of money to Baretto for ending the
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (CNN)"I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to help my child." These are the words no parent ever wants to say.<br>
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And yet for Zemi Yenus, this was her reality.<br>
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After years of carving out a successful career as a beautician in Los Angeles, the Ethiopian cosmetologist and mother of two had returned to her hometown of Addis Ababa. The year was 1996. Eager to dispense her learned knowledge back into the community, she went on to establish Niana School of Beauty, the country's first licensed beauty school. Business was booming and with 6,000 students the school was proving a hit with aspiring beauticians.<br>
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But life at home was hard. Yenus' second child Jojo was struggling at school. Four years older than his brother Bilal, he wasn't developing in the same way.<br>
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<li>Foreign nationals have been loading trucks with their wares as they flee Johannesburg and neighbouring towns</li>
<li>Protesters are angry about foreigners in the country when unemployment is high and wealth isn't distributed equally</li>
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Police battled to contain a wave of violence in South Africa last night as gangs of migrants armed themselves with machetes to fight off anti-foreigner attacks by locals.</div>
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An Ethiopian suspected of involvement in human trafficking crimes had been arrested in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian commercial capital and deported to Ethiopia Thursday through the joint efforts of the Tanzanian police and Interpol.<br>
The suspect, named as, Dejene Flate, was apprehended while trying to traffic 64 Ethiopians from Dar es Salaam to South Africa, with one of the victims was found dead.<br>
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The suspect was alleged to have previously trafficked thousands of his fellow citizens to South Africa via Kenya and Tanzania and to some countries in the Middle East. Going with the nickname Teddy, the suspect had hidden his identity and was at large for many years.<br>
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Studies indicate that epidemic meningitis has been present in Africa for
about 100 years. The disease is most prevalent in the sub-Saharan
meningitis belt, an area that stretches from Senegal and the Gambia in
the West to Ethiopia in the East and has an at-risk population of about
430 million. Epidemics occur in the dry season (December to June), and
an epidemic wave can last two to three years, dying out during the
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The size of these epidemics can be enormous and place an immediate
and great burden on the health systems of meningitis belt countries. In
major African epidemics, the attack rate ranges from 100 to 800 per
100,000 population, but individual communities have reported rates as
high as 1/100. <br>
Over one million cases of meningitis have been reported in Africa
since 1988. In 1996–1997, the largest epidemic wave ever recorded in
history swept across Africa, causing over 250,000 cases and 25,000
deaths. The true disease burden is likely to be higher than statistics
suggest because routine reporting systems break down during epidemics.
In addition, many people die before reaching a health center and thus
remain unrecorded in official statistics.<br>
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Deaf inmates should be given regular access to sign language interpreters when needed, lawyers argued Thursday in a lawsuit over one inmate's six-week stay at a county jail.<br><br>Ethiopian immigrant Abreham Zemedagegehu sued the Arlington County sheriff and Virginia state officials in federal court, saying that he was routinely denied access to an American Sign Language interpreter during a stay at the county jail last year.<br><br>For several days, Zemedagegehu said, he didn't even know why he was arrested. He said jail officials conducted medical procedures on him without explaining them. He missed meals because he never heard the call for chow time.<br><br>When he needed to make phone calls, he said deputies gave him a TTY machine instead of a videophone. He said the TTY was useless, both because the technology has become obsolete and is no longer used in the deaf community and because it requires a command of written English that he lacks.<br>
In arguments Thursday, lawyer Jonathan Goodrich said Zemedagegehu's six-week stay left him frightened, isolated, and subject to "an avalanche of constitutional violations" and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<br>
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The legendary Ethiopian long distance runner intends to challenge for a sixth victory in Europe’s biggest 10k road race on Sunday May 10 - and then set off again <br>
Olympic hero Haile Gebrselassie, the greatest distance runner of all-time, will be on a double mission when he returns to take part in the Morrisons Great Manchester Run on Sunday 10 May.<br><br>The peerless Ethiopian, who has broken a staggering 27 world records and claimed two Olympic 10,000m titles, intends to challenge for a sixth victory in Europe’s biggest 10k road race and then set off and run the course for a SECOND time to savour the unique atmosphere among the hordes in the 40,000 strong field.<br><br>“Manchester is one of my favourite cities in the world to race in,” said Gebrselassie.<br><br>“The atmosphere, the people and the organisation are all fantastic.<br>
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response to today’s comments by Under Secretary for Political Affairs,
Wendy Sherman, in which she referred to Ethiopia as a democracy and the
country’s upcoming elections free, fair, and credible, Freedom House
issued the following statement:<br>
“Under Secretary Sherman’s comments today were woefully ignorant and
counter-productive,” said Daniel Calingaert, executive vice president of
Freedom House. “Ethiopia remains one of the most undemocratic countries
in Africa. By calling these elections credible, Sherman has tacitly
endorsed the Ethiopian government’s complete disregard for the
democratic rights of its citizens. This will only bolster the
government’s confidence to continue its crackdown on dissenting voices.”<br>
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The world often gets excited about so-called superfoods - the vegetables and fruit deemed to be highly nourishing<br />
Ethiopian teff is one
such example. It is the world's smallest grain and is used to make
injera bread, a staple in the East African region. <br />
But the
Ethiopian government is keen to keep prices of teff low for locals,
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Why it’s time for East Africa’s big success story to change the way it does business.<br>
Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil war captured the attention of aid agencies, sympathetic governments, and humanitarian groups around the world. Contrast that with the past decade, when Ethiopia averaged an economic growth rate of slightly better than 10 percent. The about-face has been so dramatic that some seasoned observers have gone so far as to call Ethiopia’s progress an economic miracle, dubbing the country an “African lion” whose success recalls that of Asia’s economic tigers.<br>
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Encouraged by its accomplishments, the governing Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) continues to focus on a high-growth strategy aimed at making Ethiopia a middle-income country by 2025. To the casual observer, this goal appears increasingly within reach. Ethiopia is not just growing, but has already met or is coming close to meeting some of its important Millennium Development Goals, including universal primary education and reductions in infant mortality. The country’s poverty rate fell from 44 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2011. Unemployment rates, though still high, have been coming down. And the number of Ethiopian millionaires has increased faster than in any other African country.<br>
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Honourable Speaker,<br>
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Honourable Deputy Speaker,<br>
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Honourable Deputy President,<br>
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Honourable Members,<br>
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Fellow South Africans,<br>
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During the past week we have witnessed shocking and unacceptable incidents of violence directed at foreign nationals in some parts of KwaZulu-Natal, which has now spread to some parts of Gauteng. Similar incidents had taken place in Soweto in January.<br>
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No amount of frustration or anger can ever justify the attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops.<br>
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We condemn the violence in the strongest possible terms. The attacks violate all the values that South Africa embodies, especially the respect for human life, human rights, human dignity and Ubuntu.<br>
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Our country stands firmly against all intolerances such as racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism.<br>
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We extend our condolences to the families of all who have lost their lives and wish the injured a speedy recovery.<br>
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