Thursday, February 19, 2015
GENZEBE DIBABA SETS WORLD INDOOR 5000M RECORD IN STOCKHOLM
Dibaba took more than five seconds off the previous mark of 14:24:37 set by her compatriot Meseret Defar on the same track in 2009.
In 2014, Dibaba set world records indoors over 1500m and 3000m as well as a world best over two miles.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
C’ttee presents interim report on Ethiopian cargo plane crash
Poor visibility resulting from bad weather condition was a contributory factor to the crash of the Ethiopian Air cargo plane at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on January 10, a report of a committee tasked to investigate the incident has said.
In its preliminary report presented to the Minister of Transport, Mrs Dzifa Attivor, in Accra yesterday, the Ethiopian Air Cargo Plane Accident Investigation Committee did not, however, state the leading cause of the accident.
The 16-page report only cited poor visibility due to the weather as a contributory factor.
The Chairman of the committee, Captain Samuel Thompson, who handed the report over to the minister, said the final report would be ready by May, this year.
Background
A Boeing 737 400 Ethiopian Airline aircraft with registration number ET-AQV and operated by ASKY from Lomé to Accra, skidded off the runway on January 10, 2015, resulting in extensive damage to the aircraft.
Ethiopian nationals injured in South Sudan grenade attack
Three Ethiopian businessmen were on Wednesday severely injured after unknown assailants hurled grenades at their shops in South Sudan's Jonglei state.
The trio is reportedly recovering at Bor Civilian Hospital in Jonglei.
According to reports, the three were attacked while sitting in front of their shop near a local market at night.
Somebody came with a hand grenade and threw it at them
The attack came at a time when foreign businesspeople in Jonglei say they are no feeling longer safe operating in the region.
"Last year three Ugandans and one Kenyan were killed in the market. We were promised that such attacks will not take place again" said Isah Mbalangu, a representative of foreign business people in the region.
Kenya: Mombasa Detectives Arrest 11 Ethiopian Aliens Enroute to South Africa
By Nancy Agutu
Police detectives arrested eleven Ethiopian aliens on Tuesday night who were headed to South Africa from Likoni in Mombasa county.
The aliens were arrested in Soweto village where they were harboured in the house of Abdi Wahab Hussein.
Hussein is believed to have housed the suspects illegally without informing the police.
Likoni police boss Willy Simba said the aliens were headed to South Africa through the porous Lunga Lunga border.
Israels forced birth control to Ethiopian Jews
World Bulletin / News Desk
The Israeli government has admitted to forcing female Ethiopian Jewish migrants into having contraceptive injections without their knowledge or consent. The women were deceived and told that the Depo-Provera injections were vaccinations and that unless they had them, they would be refused entry to Israel.
When Israel's Ethiopian community became suspicious of a dramatic decline in birth rates, investigations began to determine why. The Israeli government denied any wrongdoing but the health ministry has ordered a complete halt to all gynaecologists administering the drugs.
According to a report in the Atlanta Black Star, the Israeli government deliberately and knowling injected Ethiopian women who were migrating to Israel - the women were told that it was a vaccination, and without it, they would be barred from entering Israel.
Many have called the practice appallingly racist.
Ethiopia's media war
Ethiopian anti-terrorism laws are forcing journalists into exile and prison, a push the government says will secure the nation.
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