When the goal finally arrived, 112 minutes into a long, wearing night of tension, there were members of the German entourage who seemed intent on re-enacting the infamous end to the Ryder Cup at Brookline. Their victory run, en masse, took them all the way from the dugout to the opposite side of the pitch […]

The Rev. Nicholas Richards, founder of the Abyssinian Fund, a nonprofit that supports coffee farmers in Ethiopia, is in the middle of hashing out a distribution deal to launch an Aby fund-branded coffee in the States, starting in the Big Apple. BY JAN RANSOM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS He’s got a couple of beans up […]

A young activist is calling on the United Nations to come up with a tangible plan to end the discrimination that prevents millions of girls worldwide from getting an education. UNICEF national ambassador to Ethiopia Hannah Godefa explained the passion that drives her to speak out for the right of all girls and women to […]

More than 60 women and girls are reported to have escaped from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, security sources say. They were among 68 abducted last month near the town of Damboa in north-eastern Borno state. Reports say the women escaped when the militants went to attack a military base near Damboa on Friday. […]

A legal institution in Sweden is to charge Eritrean president Isayas Afeworki and other Eritrean officials on human rights abuse cases: Ethiochannel newspaper writes. The legal institution claimed to have an authority from the Sweden government to charge individuals of any country who committed human rights abuses. The institution said that it resolved to charge […]

In a session held during the 6th Northern Corridor Summit, the East African Commodity Exchange (EAX) is launched. President Uhuru Kenyatta ushered the launch of the East Africa Commodity Exchange by ringing a bell signaling the formal launch of the Exchange. EAX is a subsidiary of Africa Exchange Holdings, Ltd. (AFEX), which is comprised of […]

After analyzing thousands of wild chimp-to-chimp gestures, University of St Andrews researchers believe that they have translated the meanings of 36 chimpanzee gestures that are used to communicate. According to the researchers, this is the first time that another animal communication system has been found to have meaning. Furthermore, this novel information may also offer […]

Algeria forward Islam Slimani has revealed that he and his team-mates are donating their money to people in Gaza. The north African side won the hearts and minds of many with their heroic effort in pushing Germany to extra-time in their round of 16 World Cup clash. And now their display of generosity to the […]

A U.N. General Assembly committee approved on Thursday a new troop-reimbursement rate for countries contributing nearly 100,000 peacekeepers to 16 missions, overcoming an impasse that left the world body’s operations in financial limbo for three days. Budget negotiations between the 193 member states had hit a standstill on the monthly reimbursement rates for the next […]

This statement was issued today by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. “A British national, Andargachew Tsege, was reported missing in Yemen on 24 June. Since then UK officials have pressed the Yemeni authorities at senior levels to establish his whereabouts, including meeting with the Yemeni Ambassador in London this week. We are aware of reports […]

Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest have been ordered by the state to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Statements posted in the past week on websites of schools, government agencies and local party organisations in the Xinjiang region said the ban would protect students’ wellbeing and […]

A restaurant where police say a punter threatened to kill a bouncer with a kitchen knife and another man suffered a broken jaw after a fight about politics faces closure as the town hall crackdown on drunk violence continues. Menelik, in Caledonian Road Menelik, an Ethiopian Restaurant in Caledonian Road, Islington, is one of two […]

Kuwait’s low-income migrants endure daily discrimination but local media and authorities tend to particularly criminalize Ethiopian domestic workers. The March 2014 murder of a Kuwaiti woman by an Ethiopian domestic worker most recently inflamed rhetoric against Ethiopian migrants and incited national panic against domestic workers; state officials and local media fueled racist hysteria in the […]

Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy, says that giving birth in prison, with her legs in chains, has left her baby disabled Meriam Ibrahim was released from prison on June 23 – only to be detained once again while attempting to leave Sudan for the US Photo: AP The Sudanese woman […]

A cargo plane crashed into a commercial building shortly after takeoff from an airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, the country’s airport authority said. All four people on board are feared dead. The Fokker 50 plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The Kenyan Red Cross said one body has been […]

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon held talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta Saturday and assured him the UN would support Kenya in the fight against terrorism. The meeting between the two leaders followed the United Nations Environmental Assembly forum earlier in the week, attended by 112 ministers from across the globe who were among the […]