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• Petakh Tikvah schools reject Ethiopian students

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: Ethiopia, Racism, Education, Israel

  Haaretz reports, Eighty Ethiopian immigrant children, whose families transferred in recent months from absorption centers to permanent homes in Petah Tikvah, are still looking for schools that will agree to accept them for the upcoming school year. The immigrants cannot be accepted to state secular schools as they have yet to finish their

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• New dawning

  Published: August 31, 2007, 6:59 pm

  Tags: Travel, Guardian Saturday Travel Section, Ethiopia, Africa, Green Travel

  The Ethiopian calendar hits the year 2000 this month. As the country prepares to celebrate, Aida Edemariam reflects on how much it has changed since she lived there as a child and how eco-tourism might help shape its future in the new millennium.

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• Dawn of Ethiopia's new millennium

  Published: September 1, 2007, 6:53 pm

  Tags: Travel, Observer Escape Section, Ethiopia, Africa

  Ethiopia will celebrate its millennium this month - seven years after the rest of the world. But following a different calendar is one of many ways in which this country is unique, writes Bob Maddams.

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• Where to celebrate Ethiopia's millennium

  Published: September 3, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Travel, Ethiopia, Festivals, London

  Seven years behind us, Ethiopia celebrates its new Millennium on September 11. Bob Maddams offers a guide to a yearlong festival over there and over here.

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• Officials warn of African flood crisis

  Published: September 14, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Floods, Relief Aid Organisations, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Sudan, Togo, Uganda

  Several of Africa's poorest countries are in dire need of assistance due to severe floods that have killed more than 200 people and affected a million in recent weeks, officials warned.

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• Financial leaders discuss African economy

  Published: September 14, 2007, 10:05 pm

  Tags: Business Economics Finance, International Aid Trade, World Politics, Ethiopia

  Officials from some of the world's leading financial agencies have met in New York to discuss Africa's lack of progress in achieving the internationally-declared Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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• Floods bring chaos to African countries

  Published: September 15, 2007, 6:48 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Floods, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda

  Prolonged and heavy rain has brought misery to the lives of people across Africa, destroying their homes and submerging much of the continent's most productive farmland.

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• No respite for flood-hit Africa

  Published: September 15, 2007, 5:29 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Floods, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana

  International aid agencies in Africa are calling for more help as rising floodwaters continue to devastate large parts of the continent.

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• *Poke Poke Poke*

  Published: September 16, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Proxy War, Punk, Africa, Icu, Imperialism, Somalia, Realism, Video, Gwot, Bloggy Mcbloggerson, Friends, Human Rights Watch, Ethiopia, Al Qaeda

  that US proxy ally Ethiopia = teh good guys teh lesser evil. (Butbutbut teh radical ICU wuz harbourin ur Al Qaedaz in Somalia - surgical strikes FTW!!111 Oops, sry - we missed.) Related: Human Rights Watch also fails to see the inherent wisdom of “realism” (to the bellicose consternation of the Ethiopian Gov’t);

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• Aid agencies appeal for Africa flood help

  Published: September 21, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: Community Society, Poverty, Disasters Accidents, Floods, Relief Aid Organisations, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda

  As more details emerge on the extent of the floods that are devastating large areas of Africa, further appeals are being made by international relief agencies.

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• Africa floodwaters subsiding

  Published: September 22, 2007, 2:50 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Floods, Relief Aid Organisations, Ethiopia, Senegal

  Floodwaters are subsiding after affecting a vast swathe of the African continent from Senegal in the west, to Ethiopia.

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• Cool Thing would be a great special name for a Frappacino

  Published: September 24, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Starbucks, Thurston Moore, Ethiopia, Sonic Youth

  actively sort to screw the Ethiopian economy out of about ninety million

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• Bloggers Against Abuse

  Published: September 27, 2007, 1:05 am

  Tags: Christian Living Theology, Miscellaneous, Abuse, Blog Catalog, Blogcatalog, Bloggers, Bloggers Against Abuse, Blogging For Great Cause, Blogging For Great Cause, Christian, Christianity, Ethiopia, Islam, Persecution, Voice Of The Martyrs, Worshipping

  persecution taking place in Ethiopia: In October 2006, six Christians were killed in Illubabor Province of Ormoia State simply because they refused to be forcefully converted to Islam. Additional Christians were displaced and/or had their properties destroyed during the violence. In the same month, in Jimma Province in a place called Beshasha,

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• Ethiopia restores SMS in time for their new millennium

  Published: October 4, 2007, 4:46 am

  Tags: General, Blocking Text Messages, Ethiopia Sms, Ethiopia Text Messaging, Sms Blocked

  last been turned back on in Ethiopia in time for their new millennium, on September 14th. During the elections in May 2005, Kinijit used SMS to communicate with its supporters, and following election results being contested, the government closed down parts of the press, blocked access to web sites and shut down SMS on June 10, 2005. Now, the

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, United States, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baghdad, Mario Uribe, Robert Gates, Ethiopia, Spain, United Nations, Andrea Santoro, Black Sea, Ibrahim Gambari, Marwan Jbara, Santiago, Tal Afar, Than Shwe, Trabzon, Al Qaeda In Iraq, Austria, Austrian Ministry Of Justice

  The head of Burma's military junta told a U.N. envoy this week that he is willing to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time, but only under certain conditions, state radio and television reported Thursday.

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