(Los Angeles Times) – Cattle can mean everything in South Sudan. They are wealth, status, survival, the price of a bride and the ability to marry and have children – all things young men are willing to kill and die for. That’s what thousands of armed young men from the Murle tribe did last week, pouring across […]
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Facebook has announced a new feature coming to its standalone Messenger app that will let users start up group calls with up to 50 friends and family members. Rolling out now to the iOS and Android Messenger apps, the update will use previously established group chats within Facebook’s messaging client as a springboard for starting […]
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The Delegation of the European Union in South Sudan has called for the return of children abducted from villages in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region last Friday, where unknown perpetrators from South Sudan killed scores and abducted children during a brutal attack. EU diplomats deplored the loss of life in the raid and pointed out that over […]
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Unbanked Ethiopians Fewer than a fifth of Ethiopians had a bank account in 2014, compared with 75 percent in neighboring Kenya, according to the World Bank, AFP reported. But Ethiopia has had nearly 10 percent economic growth over the past decade, according to the InternationalMonetaryFund. The Ethiopian government set a 2020 target date to increase the number of bank […]
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Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies, is pushing a new electronic payment service called M-Birr, or “mobile-money.” The mobile-based payment system is expected to rope in millions of the unbanked population into the banking and financial systems. More effective and less restrictive, operators say the mobile payment system is also safer than old payment […]
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Fresh evidence links Saudi government to 9/11: Flight certificate of would-be bomber found in embassy envelope buried underground. Fresh information allegedly connecting the government of Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terror attacks has been released. Terrorist certificate placed in envelope from Saudi embassy in Washington Details sparked concerns government may have links to the terror […]
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የአዲስ አበባ አስተዳደር የሰላማዊ ሰልፍና ስብሰባ ማሳወቂያ ክፍል ዕውቅናውን የሰጠው፥ ዛሬ፣ ሚያዝያ 11 ቀን 2008 ዓ.ም.፣ ከጠዋቱ 3፡00 ላይ እንደኾነ የማሳወቂያ ቅጹ ያመለክታል፡፡ “የቤተ ክርስቲያንን አስተምህሮ ማሳወቅ” በሚል ዓላማ ከግንቦት 17 – 22 ቀን 2008 ዓ.ም. በአዲስ አበባ ኤግዚቢሽን ማዕከል ከጠዋቱ 2፡00 እስከ ምሸት 4፡00 ድረስ ለሚካሔደውና ከ100 ሺሕ በላይ ተመልካች እንደሚጎበኘው ለሚጠበቀው ዐውደ ርእይመንግሥት […]
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BREAKING!! VIDEO: Boat with 400 migrants mainly from Somalia and Ethiopia capsizes off Egypt coast. At least 29 saved. The Boat drown in the Mediterranean Sea on its way to Italy from Egypt with 400 migrants mainly from Somalia and Ethiopia.
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As part of it’s goal to reach a global audience, Facebook launched Amharic translation framework along with other 5 languages making its support to reach more than 90-plus languages with a framework that enables you to translate text on Facebook. Facebook move to support Amharic translation will be vital for the 3.9 million facebook users […]
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Armed groups from South Sudan have attacked and killed over 100 Ethiopian members of the Nuer ethnic group. The deadly attack reportedly happened on Friday morning in Jakawa, located in Ethiopia’s border region of Gambella. About ten villages reportedly inhabited by members of the Gaajaak-Nuer community were attacked by the armed groups. The death toll, […]
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