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	<title>Set Political Prisoners Free !</title>
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		<title>Ethiopia &#8211; Kalkidan Gezahegne recovers from heat tumble to become youngest ever female champion</title>
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By IAAF: 
Ethiopia did take another women’s 1500m title, but the gold didn’t go to defending champion Gelete Burka.
Running with the grit and determination of a seasoned veteran, 18-year-old Kalkidan Gezahegne effortlessly kicked past Burka and Spaniard Natalia Rodriguez to become the youngest woman to ever win a World indoor title.
“I was hesitating to attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands</title>
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By Nick Wadhams/Nairobi:
British rock impresario and Africa aid promoter Bob Geldof, a.k.a. &#8220;Saint Bob,&#8221; was back in the headlines this past week after blowing his stack at the BBC for a story it aired alleging that Ethiopian rebels had diverted 95% of the $100 million in Ethiopian famine relief raised in the mid-1980s &#8211; much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopian Jewry gets its first Haggada</title>
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By Ruth Egalsh :
The historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada written by Ethiopian-Jewish history expert Rabbi Menachem Waldman.
Set to reach bookstores this weekend, the 195-page Haggada features prayers and commentaries on the story of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urgent appeal to individual Ethiopians and to the leaders of Ethiopian</title>
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March 13, 2010
Dear Ethiopians,
This is an urgent appeal to individual Ethiopians and to the leaders of Ethiopian groups who are in a position to mobilize their supporters. Ethiopia is in grave danger! We must do something!
Let us face it, unless something extraordinary happens between now and May 23, 2010, the current brutal repression of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bono’n’Bob crusade : Hardly a charitable response from Bob the bludgeoner</title>
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By Rod Liddle: Bob Geldof seems to be in a bit of a bate, doesn’t he? I haven’t seen the chap  so animated since he was hopping up and down in front of us 25 years ago,  like a demented leprechaun possessed by the spirit of Christ, demanding  “Give us yer fuggin’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia&#8217;s Defar wins fourth straight indoor 3000m title</title>
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DOHA — Ethiopian Meseret Defar won a record fourth consecutive women&#8217;s world indoor 3000m title on Saturday.
Defar, who won Olympic 5000m gold at the Athens Games and a bronze in Beijing, clocked 8min 51.17sec.
&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy with this race and my fourth gold medal,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was an easy victory for me because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt Continues to Shoot At Ethiopian Political Immigrants Trying to Cross into Israel</title>
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Egyptian border guards,  terrorists, on Friday shot and seriously wounded an Ethiopian migrant trying to cross illegally into Israel, and arrested seven others, police said.
Egypt has been under mounting international pressure to both secure its border with Israel and to stop using lethal force to stop migrants from crossing the border illegally.
Police said that border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sacred and sublime in Ethiopia</title>
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TYLER STIEM:
LALIBELA, ETHIOPIA —  From Saturday&#8217;s Globe and Mail

For a moment, as I ponder the mystery of Amda Berhan, the Pillar of Light, and resist the monumental urge to scratch my feet, I feel every bit the pilgrim, at home among the shawl-clad women who cross themselves and file past.
“The history of the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia National Elections: Carter Center Slams Meles Zenawi&#8217;s Elections Ritual</title>
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 THE CARTER CENTER OBSERVATION MISSION 2005 : FINAL REPORT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
Upon the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, The Carter Center observed Ethiopia’s May 15, 2005 elections for the national and regional parliaments. The May elections marked an historic event in the country, as Ethiopia witnessed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Rights Report Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner</title>
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Peter Heinlein &#124; Addis Ababa:

The U.S. State Department&#8217;s annual human rights reports says Ethiopia is holding several hundred political prisoners, including the leader of one of the country&#8217;s largest opposition parties. Ethiopia has reacted strongly to past U.S. criticisms of its rights record.
The 2009 human rights report says Birtukan Mideksa, president of Ethiopia&#8217;s opposition Unity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab</title>
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John Vidal in Juba, Sudan
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethiosun.com/how-food-and-water-are-driving-a-21st-century-african-land-grab/</link>
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		<title>2009 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia</title>
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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
March 11, 2010

Ethiopia is a federal republic led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the Ethiopian People&#8217;s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition. The population is estimated at 77 million. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the EPRDF won a majority of seats to remain [...]]]></description>
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