THE FRESH AIR FUND NYC Half-Marathon Participate in this year’s NYC Half-Marathon on March 21, 2010! If you’d like to get involved with the race in any way, please email kbrinkerhoff@freshair.org. Thank you! Congratulations to our 2009 Fresh Air Fund-Racers who completed the NYC Half-Marathon and raised almost $90,000 this summer! On August 16th, the [...]
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Somali piracy tribunals unlikely, despite calls
December 12, 2009 – 11:08 am
Reuters December 10, 2009 Reed Stevenson * Efforts to establish piracy tribunal unlikely to succeed * Prosecuting and policing pirates seen as main obstacle THE HAGUE – Efforts to establish an international court to prosecute Somali pirates face complex laws governing the seas and national sovereignty as well as the lack of an effective police [...]
Ethiopia convicts 27 over coup conspiracy
November 19, 2009 – 9:09 pm
Reuters November 19, 2009 Barry Malone * Government says group planned assassinations * Convicted men guilty of charges carrying the death penalty * Relatives say convicted men were tortured in prison ADDIS ABABA – An Ethiopian court convicted 27 serving and former soldiers on Thursday of planning a coup and found them guilty on other [...]
Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
November 19, 2009 – 9:04 pm
Forward, US November 19, 2009 Nathan Jeffay NATHAN JEFFAY Pious Swaying: Worshipers in the crowd moved their hands back and forth as they celebrate Sigd, a festival that marks a recommitment to the Torah. A crowd about 10,000 gathered in Jerusalem for the prayers, speeches and celebration. Sigd was a national holiday in Israel for [...]
Cheruiyot over Masai to end Ethiopia’s dominance in London
September 24, 2009 – 7:52 am
IAAF September 6, 2009 Matthew Brown The leaders Vivian Cheruiyot, Linet Masai and Aberu Kebede in adidas Women’s 5km (Ricky Simms) London, UK – World 5000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot beat her Kenyan teammate Linet Masai in a sprint finish to win the adidas Women’s 5k Challenge in London’s Hyde Park this afternoon (6). Running just [...]
Somali town cleared of radicals
August 20, 2009 – 7:15 am
BBC August 19, 2009 Islamists fighting Somalia’s UN-backed government have lost control of a town – the second such loss in recent days. Commanders from a local militia group say they took Luq town, near the Ethiopia border, without a fight. On Monday Ahlu Sunna drove radicals out of the nearby town of Bulo Hawo [...]
Man’s 25 years of struggle in Ethiopia
August 19, 2009 – 7:48 am
BBC August 18, 2009 BBC VIDEO IS AVAILABLE AT THE LINK The BBC’s Adam Mynott explains how Ethiopia’s resettlement programmes have affected the life of one man, Aklog Adarge. The British filmmaker Charles Stewart has been following the farmer’s life over the last 25 years – since Band Aid raised awareness of the drought and [...]
Ethiopian government deported 15 U.S. students
August 8, 2009 – 1:33 pm
VOA August 4, 2009 David Arnold The federal government of Ethiopia deported 15 American students who were teaching English in small, rural communities in eastern Hararghe region of Oromiya for several weeks. They had been volunteering in several communities not far from the Ogaden and an off-limits region of Ethiopia where government forces are battling [...]
Somali Government Dismisses al-Shabab Ultimatum to Surrender Weapons
July 7, 2009 – 6:58 am
VOA July 6, 2009 Alisha Ryu Somalia’s U.N.-backed government has dismissed an ultimatum issued by the country’s al-Shabab extremist group for government forces to surrender their weapons within five days. Somali leaders are counting on the arrival of more African Union peacekeepers in Somalia to help defend against rebel attempts to topple the government. The [...]
Ethiopia snubs Kenya on dam
June 18, 2009 – 6:06 pm
The Nation BENJAMIN MUINDI In Summary Refusal to have project monitored raises fears river may be diverted, leading to lake’s death Ethiopia has rejected Kenya’s proposal to monitor the construction of a hydro-power dam on River Omo that could lead to the death of Lake Turkana. A row between the two countries now looms over [...]