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Ethiopia ’s government illegally detained at least 5,000 members of the country’s most populous ethnic group, the Oromo, over the past four years as it seeks to crush political dissent,  Amnesty International  said. Victims include politicians, students, singers and civil servants, sometimes only for wearing Oromo traditional dress, or for holding influential positions within the community, the London-based advocacy group said in a report today. Most people were detained without charge, some for years, with many tortured and dozens killed, it said. “The Ethiopian government’s relentless crackdown on real or imagined dissent among the Oromo is sweeping in its scale and often shocking in its brutality,” Claire Beston, the group’s Ethiopia researcher, said in a statement. “This is apparently intended to warn, control or silence all signs of ‘political disobedience’ in the region.” The Oromo make up 34 percent of Ethiopia’s 96.6 million population, according to the  CIA World Factb

Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda are the main producers of coffee in Africa, with Ethiopia being the continent's leading coffee grower. World Bulletin/ News Desk Coffee-growing African countries – including Ethiopia – appear unable to add meaningful value to their coffee exports, a senior official at the Ethiopian Coffee Exporters' Association (ECEA) said. "The value-adding on coffee to any meaningful degree is not apparent on the [African] continent," ECEA General Manager Alemseged Assefa told Anadolu Agency. "For the foreseeable future, our country – and many of the [African] coffee-growing countries – will continue trading only in coffee beans," he lamented. "The work of roasting, packaging, retailing and other work in the coffee value chain has long been monopolized by big companies," he said. "It would be very difficult now to break that dominance." Meanwhile, he said, there were a few businesses en

BLANTYRE(MaraviPost)—Malawi national football team, is likely to miss the away game against Ethiopia on November 9 in the African Cup of Nations as the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has disclosed that they do not have enough in their coffers to fund the trip. According to The Nation Newspaper, FAM has resolved to further engage government on the prospects of securing more supplementary funding to enable the Flames travel to Ethiopia for their last Group B qualifiers. “Having negotiated for advance sponsorship from the Flames official sponsors Carlsberg Malawi, which enabled the team to fulfill the away fixture against Algeria, the executive committee was briefed that they \[Carlsberg] cannot give us the whole funding meant for next year on logistical and marketing grounds. “So the resolution was that we should further engage government and if it does not work, then we’ll have no choice but to pull out because we cannot manage to source funding for the Ethiopia game,” s

PRESS RELEASE Oval-shaped huts scattered all around a small area adorned with lush indigenous trees and expansive green meadows that give a feeling of homeliness is typical of villages in the Sidama zone, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a maternal health project in the Chire and Mejo divisions (known as woredas). Expectant mother Widinesh Legabo's village is 20 kilometres from the administrative town of Mejo. Widinesh, 32, has already gone through five challenging pregnancies, with long hours of labour, extensive bleeding and extreme shock during child birth. From the age of 16, when she had her first child, each delivery has always been a tormenting time for Widinesh. " Once I even went through a terrible six-day labour. I was suffering day and night. The cheerful voices of children playing out in the open and the sound of mowing cows outside that I always liked became unbearable. I wanted to lie still and forget that I was alive. The pain was unbearable ,&q