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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  – The Ethiopian National team has selected 27 local footballers for the  African Nations Championship (CHAN)  tournament to be held in South Africa in January 2014, and will begin training next week. Goalkeeper Sisay Bancha and defender Abebaw Butako have both been dropped from the squad, sources told The Reporter. The two players were involved in a fight in Calabar, Nigeria, after the Walias lost 2–0 to the Super Eagles in the World Cup play-off. Walias participating in CHAN: St George : Alula Girma, Salahadin Bergecho, Degu Debebe, Menyahel Teshome, Adane Girma, Omed Ukri, Beyadeglegn Elyas, Mentesenot Adane Ethiopian Coffee : Jemal Tasew, Fasika Asfaw, Tok James, Ephrem Ashamo Dedebit:  Tariku Getenet, Seyoum Tesfaye, Birhanu Bogale, Tadele Mengesha, Shemeket Gugsa Arba Minch Kenema:  Gebremichael Yakob, Mulalem Yakob Dashen Beer:  Dereje Alemu, Aynalem Hailu and Asrat Megersa Defence Force:  Manaye Fantu Commercial Bank of Ethiopian (

The possibility of being thrown out in to the sea to prevent the small boat sinking, the possibility of suffocating to death traveling on board a shipping container loaded on track, or the possibility of crossing a dry desert on foot without enough water to drink are among some of the worst conditions that a human being can go through. Sadly, they are very real possibilities for a young man of 20 and his fellow travelers to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He witnessed people dying from dehydration, and silently watched people being beaten up to death; he knows the true meaning of thirst and hunger; he understands what a near- death experience is all about; and he did all this in the longest 30 days of his life while traveling to Saudi Arabia from his birthplace Ataye, located in Northern Shewa Zone of the Amhara Regional State. The world has its own way of breaking people’s spirit, and at a young age he witnessed those horrible things. Although the young man

Dr. Wolassa Kumo 1.Introduction: the Failure of the Conventional Aid Model The micro and macroeconomic impacts of development aid in Africa has become one of the most contentious issues for decades now. The recent path breaking book "Dead Aid" by Dambisa Moyo, an Oxford/Harvard economist, has shaken the foundation of the development aid model and stirred up the debate whether aid does in fact help to reduce poverty and increase economic growth in poor African countries.   Moyo (2009) argues that although in the past fifty years Africa received more than $1 trillion in development related assistance from rich countries, poverty rates continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined. "Between 1970 and 1998, when aid flows to Africa were at their peak, poverty in Africa rose from 11% to a staggering 66%" and that " roughly 600 million of Africa's billion people are now trapped in poverty". Moyo would admit that aid has done some good on a

Marthe van der Wolf December 18, 2013 ADDIS ABABA   — The New York-based   Committee to Protect Journalists   says Eritrea, Ethiopia and Egypt have the highest number of imprisoned journalists on the African continent. The three countries are also on the worldwide top-ten list of worst journalist jailers. A new survey released Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists indicates 34 African journalists are in jails in northeast Africa. Tom Rhodes, the group’s East Africa representative based in Nairobi, says the Horn of Africa is particularly problematic because the governments there do not tolerate dissent. “I think they have been on this list year-in, year-out simply because of the governments’ lack of tolerance towards any kind criticism. Every time a reporter reports something critically, they throw them in jail,” he said. WATCH: CPJ Video East African Journalists in Exile   In Ethiopia, seven of the 34 journalists are in jail.  But the government here insists th

A group of families involved with the now-defunct adoption program with Ethiopia claim they were duped by Australia's former government. By   Kerri Worthington   Source   World News Australia Radio UPDATED YESTERDAY 6:44 PM (Transcript from World News Australia Radio) The families say they were told no children had been referred for inter-country adoption at the time of the program's closure in June 2012. But, as Kerri Worthington reports, several families on the waiting list to adopt a child from Ethiopia say evidence has come to light that shows the program was shut under false pretences. (Click on audio tab above to hear full item) Families affected by the former Labor government's closure of the Ethiopian Australian Inter-country adoption program are hoping the Coalition government will reverse the decision. They say documentary evidence confirms that at least ten Ethiopian children had been referred to the inter-country adoption