Archive for the ‘Diaspora’ Category

Happy Holidays to all our friends of Ethiopia! We now greet the New Year with a new United State of American President-Elect, Barack Obama. Consequently there will be big changes in Washington and so also with regard to American relations with Ethiopia. All American policies will be newly examined and that with Ethiopia is no ... Full story

Likud member Aleli Admasu, who won the 30th spot reserved for immigrants on the party's Knesset list in Monday's primary, may lose his place. A Russian-born candidate for the same slot filed a petition with the Likud central committee claiming that Admasu was ineligible to compete for the new immigrants slots because he made aliya in 1983 while the party's regulations define a new immigrant as ... Full story

GIMHAE, South Gyeongsang Province - Fekadu Metekia is a man in search of a home. Thousands of kilometers of ocean separate him from his wife and son in the United States. He has not been to his birth country - Ethiopia - in years. As do expatriates from all countries, no matter if their countries fall under developing or developed status, he has intense pride for ... Full story

Ethiopia-born Wayna Wondwossen and Kenna Zemedkun are nominated for a Grammy award in the "Best Urban/Alternative Performance" catagory. The talented Wayna received her Grammy nomination for the "Lovin You" music while Kenna was selecting for "Say Goodbye To Love." Often compared with the Grammy-winner Lauryn Hill, Wayna has been widely praised for her work, including by Stevie Wonder, who also compared her to his wife singer/songwriter ... Full story

Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia: Report from London Ethiopians who came to the meeting of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) held in London, UK on November 23, 2008 have much in common with those Ethiopians who met earlier in Oakland and Minneapolis—they were all seeking an Ethiopia where their ... Full story

The scene might have been a bar mitzvah: smiling guests circling the dance floor in a frenzied hora to the sounds of Hava Nagila. But there were clues—both big and small—that suggested otherwise. A dreadlocked keyboard player singing alternatively in Hebrew, English and Amharic. The smell of Ethiopian food wafting through the room. Yet, this ... Full story

Dubai: A housemaid was cleared of charges of setting her sponsor's bedroom on fire. However, she will be jailed for three months for hitting the sponsor's 10-year-old son, a court ruled here on Monday. The Dubai Court of First Instance fined the 40-year-old Ethiopian housemaid Dh1,000 for beating and injuring the boy. She will be deported after serving her sentence. The initial verdict is still subject to ... Full story

Source: WJLA ABC 7 Montgomery County police in Maryland say a Gaithersburg man was killed after being hit by a car in Rockville. Police say 27-year-old Bereket L. Mamo was walking on East Gude Drive when he was hit by a car Saturday night. He died at the scene. The driver, Paulette Knight of Rockville, stayed at the scene ... Full story