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UN states approve peacekeeping budget
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...
British government statement on extradition of Ethiopian leader, Andargachew Tsege
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...
China bans Ramadan fasting in Muslim province
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...
Two Ethiopian restaurants in UK could be closed due to alleged drunk violence
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...
KUWAIT SCAPEGOATS, CRIMINALIZES ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS
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...
Meriam Ibrahim: My baby is disabled because I gave birth with my legs chained
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...
Cargo plane crashes into building in Kenya
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...
Ban Ki-Moon pledges to support Kenya in fighting terror
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...
After 23 Years, China to Reopen Embassy in Somalia
China will reopen its embassy in Mogadishu, hoping that increased stability in Somalia allows for closer bilateral ties.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei announced Monday that China will...
Greater protection for ships lost in World War One
Many of these wrecks are now threatened by salvage operations, deliberate destruction and looting.
But experts from 36 states meeting in Belgium have been hearing how the Unesco Convention on the...
The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
t’s a small spot on the map. Below the thirty-fourth degree south latitude, the island of Juan Fernandez casts a modest shadow in the vast eastern Pacific Ocean. In 1704, Alexander Selkirk,...
Ethiopia, Nigeria sign security agreement
Ethiopian Chief of Staff to join hands with Nigerian, Kenyan counterparts
Prime Minister HailemariamDesalegn, who this week officially visited Nigeria for two days, agreed with his counterpart,...
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