News Ethiopia Social: An Israeli cop shot an unarmed Ethiopian teen. Here’s why American Jews should care.
the high concentration of Ethiopian residents in poor neighborhoods, systemic bias in the criminal justice system or broader social discrimination — such as Barkan Wineries’ eventually revoked ...
News Ethiopia Social: Healing Ethiopian anger
Even though Ethiopian Jews have among the highest levels of service in the army, one in four didn’t complete their conscription due mostly to social or integration issues. In 2011, 48% of male ...
News Ethiopia Social: Ethiopia: First Ever Kids TV Channel Goes On Air
Ethiopia Kids TV Channel ... mass communication, education and other social science fields, the first television station dedicated to children's programming was established with 30 million ...
News Ethiopia Social: LGBT tour operator faces death threats over Ethiopia trip
A tour group visits Debre Berhan Selassie Church, Gonder, Ethiopia. Photograph: Gavin Hellier/Getty Images An LGBT tour operator has received death threats and hate messages on social media after ...
News Ethiopia Social: Ethiopia: Will Abiy Democratise Ethiopia or Take Advantage of Its Vulnerability?
Increased ethnic conflicts led to nearly three million of internal displacements and became detrimental to social mobility. Can the new leadership bring hope? Politically, Ethiopia is ...
News Ethiopia Social: In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers
ADDIS ABABA — Five miles northwest of Addis Ababa’s thriving city center is the lush Gullele Botanic Garden (GBG), the first well-established site of its kind in Ethiopia that covers both forest and semi-forest vegetation. Of the more than 2,500 botanical gardens that exist in the world, only an estimated 4 percent are in Africa, […]
News Ethiopia Social: Ethiopian churches oppose gay travel company's tour plans
Ethiopia's religious leaders on Monday urged the government to block a US gay travel company from touring the country's ancient sites, and one group warned visiting homosexuals could face violence. The Chicago-based Toto Tours, which describes itself on its website as "the only gay tour
News Ethiopia Social: The New Scramble for Ethiopia
This year, however, the speech by Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, at the 2019 World Economic Forum was shared widely on social media. Its spread highlighted the pop-star-like status that ...
News Ethiopia Social: Ethiopia to Get U.S.$ 550 Million World Bank Loan
Opinion - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on Wednesday approved a total of USD 550 million for Ethiopa in a bid to improve the livelihoods of pastoralists and the nation's ongoing power sector reforms.
News Ethiopia Social: After Cannes 2019, Priyanka Chopra heads to Ethiopia for THIS!
Following celebrations at Cannes Film Festival 2019, Priyanka Chopra jets off to Ethiopia to further child education cause by UNICEF For fans on social media, Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been carefully ...
News Ethiopia Social: Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice Elects Leaders
Addis Ababa May 10/2019 The founding forum for the establishment of the newly formed Ethiopian Citizens forSocial Justice has concluded its session by selecting party leaders today. BirhanuNega and ...
News Ethiopia Social: From vulnerable adolescents to Ethiopian city dwellers, Concordia’s newest Vanier Scholars counter adversity
Hone Mandefro Belaye is a PhD candidate in social and cultural anaylsis in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He is examining developments in housing policy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The ...
