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Tensions remained high on Tuesday, with local media reporting that about 2,000 armed migrants were engaged in a tense stand-off with police in Durban Foreign nationals gesture after clashes broke out between a group of locals and police in Durban on April 14 ,2015 in ongoing violence against foreign nationals in Durban, South Africa. (Photo/AFP) ATTACKS against foreigners continued in the South African port city of Durban Tuesday as the Ethiopian community prepared to repatriate the bodies of three of its nationals killed over the last two weeks. Ephraim Meskele, a leader of the Ethiopian community in Durban, said it was holding a prayer service Tuesday for the three victims, including a man killed when his shop was petrol-bombed on Friday. About 50 people have been arrested over the violence, in which at least four people have been killed. The police have not confirmed the nationalities of the victims. The attacks on immigrant-owned shops and homes in Durban’s impoverished

E THIOPIA, the first country to lose her independence in the present sweep of aggression, has been the first to be liberated. True, the invasion of Manchuria preceded the conquest of Ethiopia by four years; yet even today, a decade after Japan began her attack on China, there is still a Chinese Government in effective possession of a large part of China, engaged in a fight to the finish with the invader. Ethiopia, unlike China, was completely overrun and her independence extinguished. She thus heads the roll of national tragedies, now beyond the dozen mark -- Austria, Albania, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, the Baltic States, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Jugoslavia and Greece. And this is to say nothing of Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Thailand, as well as Italy herself, author of Ethiopia's downfall, all of which surrendered their freedom without a fight. Read more at  www.foreignaffairs.com

Whenever we set up our camera and flapped open our sun reflectors in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, passers-by became curious and eager to help. But getting them to talk on camera was another matter as in general residents of the city are reticent and keep their views to themselves. We were filming in Addis Ababa for a programme charting the changes in the country, yet it was only on the flight back to South Africa that I met an Ethiopian willing to be candid. I found myself seated next to an inquisitive elderly Ethiopian woman, who was chatty despite the early morning departure. However, she was not so open as to be willing for me to mention her name here. She wore a green twin-set, leggings and woollen socks with her loafers. After the rigorous security checks, she took the socks off, saying she only wears them to keep her feet clean at the end of the security protocols. She reminded me a bit of my mother, both caring and bossy all in one person. During the flig

A foreign national holds a machete to protect himself after clashes broke out between a group of locals and police in Durban, South Africa, on 14 April 2015 (Getty) At least five people have been killed in  a surge of xenophobic attacks  in South Africa on 14 April, where locals have been targeting foreigners - mostly African immigrants from Nigeria, Somali, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia - in and around the city of Durban, in the KwaZulu-Natal province.  According to local media, at least 1,500 foreigners  have fled their homes  and are now living in makeshift camps. President Jacob Zuma condemned the violence while police have been deployed to halt the xenophobic attacks. It is believed that more than 40 people linked to the violence have been arrested. Police used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse protesters on 14 April. While the anti-foreigner violence continues amid fears that the  protest is expanding to Johannesburg ,  IBTimes UK  looks at the most important thin

Addis Ababa    (HAN) April 15, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime security News . The administration of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has asked Parliament for a supplementary budget of eight billion Birr, representing close to five percent of the federal government’s budget for the fiscal year 2014/15. The Ministry of Finance & Economic Development (MoFED) has made its request for additional budget, attributing deficit it faced to salary adjustment made to public sector employees back in August 2014. Public sector employees were rewarded, across the board, with salary increases between 33pc to 46pc, with the bigger percentage made to lower income groups. An earlier projected surplus of six billion Birr thought to offset the increase is now found to be insufficient to keep the budget in black. More than double the amount of the originally held surplus is needed to pay for the additional increase in salary of public employees in the federal and regiona