News Ethiopia People: Police shooting of an Ethiopian Jew prompts a Black Lives Matter moment in Israel
In the July 2 protests, 60 people were arrested and nearly 50 police officers injured. Data provided by the Association for Education and Social Integration of Ethiopian Jews, known as Fidel, shows ...
News Ethiopia People: After a Police Shooting, Ethiopian Israelis Seek a ‘Black Lives Matter’ Reckoning
people in all reaches of the community have become newly emboldened to speak out. “It’s about all of us: lawyers, doctors, everyone,” said Michal Avera Samuel, the Ethiopian-born director of Fidel, a ...
News Ethiopia People: Your Business: Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews and Israel
Israel’s existence makes that certain. Moreover, even when there is a question about Jewish lineage, as currently in the case of some 6,000 people remaining in Ethiopia, we try harder to justify ...
News Ethiopia People: Rising misery as Ethiopia struggles to stem ethnic tensions
More than a year after his house in southern Ethiopia was razed to the ground, his coffee plantation destroyed and cattle stolen, Teketel Memheru is still too terrified to return home. The 22-year-old is one of hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes by ethnic clashes in a burgeoning
News Ethiopia People: Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds
Scientists call it flood-retreat agriculture. As a swollen river blankets a dry plain and then recedes, it replenishes the thin soil with enough nutrients to sprout grass for cattle and allow the cultivation of crops like corn and sorghum. It’s an approach that indigenous groups have been practicing for centuries around the world, allowing them […]
News Ethiopia People: Ethiopia: From Hige Mengist to Hige Hager
The successor of the Emperor, the Derg regime, took thirteen years to grant the Ethiopian people its preferred version of Hige Mengist in 1987. And it took the present rulers of Ethiopia ...
News Ethiopia People: Ethiopian Airlines pushes back on criticism, says pilots followed emergency procedures before March crash
The Ethiopian Airlines official noted that MCAS, which was meant to prevent stalling, was “not known by airlines and pilots until after the Lion Air accident,” which left 189 people dead in Indonesia ...
News Ethiopia People: Ethiopia’s treatment of its own IDPs making crisis worse
Last year, in southern Ethiopia, intercommunal violence caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Refugees International (RI) is deeply alarmed by the Ethiopian government’s ...
