Word: ethiopia
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...Live Aid, Bob Geldof's Ethiopian famine-relief efforts. While many of Live Aid's participants played their sets and moved on to the next cause, Bono and his wife Alison Stewart decided to find out just how bad the African famine was. They traveled to Wello, Ethiopia, and spent six weeks working at an orphanage. "You'd wake up in the morning, and mist would be lifting," Bono recalls. "You'd walk out of your tent, and you'd count bodies of dead and abandoned children. Or worse, the father of a child would walk...
...Ethiopia: Tackling terror in East Africa...
...does turn its war on terrorism to Somalia, the armed forces of neighboring Ethiopia are slated to be the Northern Alliance-type allied ground force. But the Addis Ababa Tribune laments the fact that Africa is on U.S. radar screens only because of the potential for al-Qaeda to seek refuge there. "America is pursuing its own interests first and last?," the paper editorializes. "For the foreseeable future the U.S.'s engagement with third world countries will be security-driven. Resources will flow to enhance security relationships at the expense of development assistance. Security alliances will define partnership. We fear...
...practice, now commonly called female genital mutilation (FGM), is most widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Horn of Africa, where up to 98% of girls are circumcised, and in Islamic populations in the continent's west. It is also found in Christian countries like Ethiopia and Kenya...
BELGIUM [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS][FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] SWITZERLAND [FINANCIAL BACKING] ITALY [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS][FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] ALBANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] TUNISIA MAURITANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] ALGERIA CZECH REPUBLIC KOSOVO LIBYA LEBANON [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] JORDAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KUWAIT [FINANCIAL BACKING] QATAR U.A.E. [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FINANCIAL BACKING] ERITREA ETHIOPIA [FINANCIAL BACKING] [TERRORIST ATTACK] UGANDA [TERRORIST ATTACK] [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KENYA [TERRORIST ATTACK][ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] TANZANIA [TERRORIST ATTACK] CHECHNYA, RUSSIA AZERBAIJAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN BANGLADESH MALAYSIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS...