The Boy Desperately Needs Our Help .

ሙሉ ብርሃን ይባላል 16 ዓመቱ ነው ፡፡አዲግራት ሆስፒታል መኖር ከጀመረ ከ3 ዓመት በላይ ሆኖታል፡፡ በመተንፈሻ አካሉ ላይ በደረሰበት ጉዳት ምክንያት በአፍንጫው መተንፈስ አይችልም፡፡ በጥቁር አንበሳ ሆስፒታል በተደረገለት የቀዶ ጥገና በአንገቱ ላይ በተሰራለት ሰው ሰራሽ መሳሪያ በመተገዝ ነው የሚተነፍሰው፡፡
በሆስፒታሉ የሚኖረው የሚተነፍስበት መሳሪያ ለማፅዳት የሚያግዘው መሳሪያ በሆስፒታሉ ስለሚገኝ ነው ፡፡
ሐኪሞች እንደነገሩት የሚረዳው ቢያገኝ እና ውጭ ሃገር መሄድ ቢችል ዳግም በአፍንጫው መተንፈስ ይችላል፡፡ ህክምናው የሚጠይቀውን ወጪ ቤተሰቦቹ ለመሸፈን አቅም የላቸውም፡፡ አባቱ ከዚህ ዓለም በሞት ተለይተዋል ፣ እናቱ ደግሞ አቅመ ደካማ ናቸው ፡፡ የቤተሰቡ ሁለተኛ ልጅ የሆነውን ሙሉብርሃንን ለመተደግ እጆን ይዘርጉለት ፡፡ሙሉብረሃንን ለመርዳት በቬዲዮ ላይ ባሉት ስልክ ቁጥሮች ያገኙታል፡፡

ለሚደረግለት እርዳታ በእግዚአብሄር ስም እናመሰግናለን፡፡

Egypt Rules Out War With Ethiopia Over Nile River Hydropower Dam

Egypt has no plans to go to war with Ethiopia over the Horn of Africa nation’s construction of a hydropower dam on the Nile River, said Mona Omar, special envoy for Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour.
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi told supporters last month his government will “defend each drop of Nile water with our blood.” Mursi, overthrown by the army on July 3, had a failed foreign policy and Egypt plans to negotiate with Ethiopia about the dam, Omar told reporters today in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
“We cannot go to war with any African country,” she said. “When you differ in opinion it doesn’t mean you will go to war.”
Ethiopia is building a $4.3 billion, 6,000-megawatt hydropower plant on the Blue Nile River, the main tributary of the Nile River that provides Egypt with most of its water. The dam, to be completed by 2017, has raised concerns in Egypt that it will cut supplies of water allocated by accords put in place more than five decades ago.
The project, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, is set to be Africa’s biggest hydropower plant when it is built.


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Ethiopian Migrants Tell Of Torture And Rape In Yemen

Boeing Dreamliner catches fire at London's Heathrow airport

(Reuters) - A Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Ethiopian Airlines caught fire at Britain's Heathrow airport on Friday in a fresh blow for the U.S. planemaker whose new model was grounded for three months after one high-tech battery caught fire and another overheated.

Boeing shares closed down 4.7 percent at $101.87, knocking $3.8 billion off the company's market capitalization after television footage showed the Dreamliner surrounded by firefighting foam at Heathrow.

Heathrow briefly closed both its runways to deal with the fire which broke out while the aircraft was parked at a remote stand. There were no passengers aboard the plane.

It was not clear if the fire was related to the batteries, which led to the grounding of the Dreamliner in January. Pictures from Heathrow showed an area just in front of the tail that appeared to be scorched.

The difference between Ethiopia's Gabrselassie and Liberia's Weah

                               

Ethiopia's Track legend Haile Gebrselassie plans to run for the presidency of Ethiopia. But will his sporting fame be enough to administer the fate and future of a nation and its people?

The two-time Olympic gold medalist and multiple world 10,000 metre champion says he wants to "reach more people" through politics.

Liberia's George Weah is the only other former athlete in Africa who has attempted, and failed, to transfer fame gained on the sports field into a political calling of his nation's highest office.

Europe and America have had their fair share of athletes that have made the transition from the world of sports to the world of politics.

But whether Gebrselassie's fame will be enough to sway Ethiopians could depend on how he enters politics, unlike Weah who went straight for the presidential seat right from the onset.

Ethiopia's big Nile dam is compared to Hoover Dam

ASSOSA, Ethiopia (AP) — The book, a history of Hoover Dam, fell from the dashboard as Simegnew Bekele drove through the rugged mountains where the engineer is leading construction work on Ethiopia's massive Nile River dam.

"This book," he said, picking it up, "I am reading it now ... It's a fascinating story. This dam too (has) a history one day someone will write about."

Simegnew's sentiment illustrated the great expectations of a dam that has raised tensions between this Horn of Africa nation and Egypt, which is concerned the ongoing project will diminish its share of Nile River waters. Reading the book, a gift from Ethiopians he met in New York recently, the engineer has come to see similarities between the Ethiopian dam-in-progress and Hoover Dam, the Great Depression-era project that in its time became an icon of American enterprise under difficult economic conditions.

"Hoover Dam was constructed when America was (in) depression," Simegnew said. "It was an enormous success. I am sure our dam too will herald a bright future for this country and also for the whole region."

From Chopin to Ethiopia, and Partway Back Again

Girma Yifrashewa The Ethiopian pianist and
composer played classical fare and his own
works at the Issue Project Room on Saturday night.

Girma Yifrashewa, Pianist-Composer, at Issue Project Room

“Classical music is music without Africa,” Brian Eno bluntly declared in a 1995 interview published in Wired magazine. “It represents old-fashioned hierarchical structures, ranking, all the levels of control,” he said. An art-rock provocateur, Mr. Eno managed to patronize two cultures in a single blow, fetishizing a free-floating independence in African art that he found lacking in rigid European traditions.

Yet if Mr. Eno’s statement oversimplified a complicated global exchange, relatively little evidence indicates that the Western classical tradition has held as much sway in Africa as it has in other parts of the globe, from Venezuela to China. So Girma Yifrashewa, a 45-year-old Ethiopian pianist and composer who performed at the Issue Project Room in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday night, offers a rare and fascinating example of aesthetic adaptation and convergence.

Disciplinary proceedings opened against three member associations

FIFA can confirm that disciplinary proceedings have been opened against three member associations for each having allegedly fielded an ineligible player in the preliminary competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™.

The Ethiopian Football Association allegedly fielded an ineligible player in the match between Botswana and Ethiopia on 8 June 2013.

The Togolese Football Federation allegedly fielded an ineligible in the match between Togo and Cameroon on 9 June 2013.

Disciplinary proceedings were also opened against the Equatorial Guinea Football Federation for having allegedly fielded an ineligible player in the match between Equatorial Guinea and Cape Verde Islands on 24 March 2013, and a decision was recently passed by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee on this matter.

The EQG appealed against the decision to the FIFA Appeal Committee, and the appeal proceedings are on-going.

The disciplinary proceedings against the three associations relate to article 55 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code and article 8 of the Regulations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.

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A radio documentary on the legendary melody and song writer Abebe Melesse

Ethiopia to Accommodate Nations Concerned by Dam on Nile

Ethiopia’s government said it will try to accommodate nations concerned that their water supplies may be affected by the damming of the Blue Nile River, as Sudanese and Egyptian officials met to discuss the issue.
Ethiopia, source of one of the two tributaries of the Nile River, will start filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile at the “end of next year,” Deputy Prime Minister Debretsion Gebremichael said in an interview yesterday. The 80 billion-birr ($4.3 billion) hydropower project may begin generating 600 megawatts of electricity next year and is set for completion in 2017, he said.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
will be twice the size of Singapore.
Source: DigitalGlobe via Getty Images

The schedule for filling the 74 billion cubic meter reservoir is expected to be a “major concern” for the downstream nations of Egypt and Sudan, said Debretsion. Once completed, the power plant will be Africa’s largest with the capacity to generate 6,000 megawatts. Egypt, which relies on the Nile for almost all of its water, has historically opposed upstream projects on the world’s longest river.
“We are not selfish, we are not only looking at our national interest,” said Debretsion, who is also chairman of the state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power Corp. “This is an international river and we will try our best to accommodate their benefits and their interests.”

BBC Hardtalk with US Secretary of State John Kerry at Addis Ababa University

Boosting Ethiopia’s Economy, One Shoe at a Time

AFRICANGLOBE – For Bethlehem Tilahun, the answer to ending poverty in Africa is not aid or sympathy or donations from the outside. It’s shoes.

Specifically, building a successful shoe manufacturing business that creates jobs, empowers employees, like the one she founded SoleRebels, the first ever global footwear company to come out of a developing country.

“You don’t build your economy based on aid, you want to build your economy based on the way SoleRebels built its business, so that it’s sustainable,” Bethlehem said.

SoleRebels highlights how burgeoning enterprises can transform economies across Africa.

By shifting away from a reliance on exporting raw materials to the production of premium products such as shoes, Africa can ease its dependency on aid and slowly move toward industrialised growth.

Prostitutes association congratulates Eagles over Ethiopian victory

…Promises one- week free sex if Nigeria wins AFCON Gold

Prostitutes in Nigeria say they are happy over the victory of Super Eagles against Ethiopia in the on-going African Cup of Nations competition.

The prostitutes under the aegis of Nigeria Association of Prostitutes in a statement urged the Nigerian team to go ahead and win the nations cup. The statement was signed by the association’s secretary Jessica Elvis.

Eagles must fly over Ethiopia •We will defend our dignity - Ethiopia’s coach

Nigeria are expected to get their 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) campaign back on track with a win over Ethiopia in a final Group C tie today in Rustenburg.

The Super Eagles have drawn their first two group games against Burkina Faso and champions Zambia and would now need to beat Ethiopia to reach the knockout stage of the tournament.

Zambia, who like Nigeria are also on two points, face surprise group leaders Burkina Faso at the same time today in the other game in this group.

Nigeria last failed to reach the quarterfinals of the AFCON in 1982, which was also the last time Ethiopia featured at the tournament proper.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi, who has failed to qualify both Togo and Mali beyond the group stage of this competition, said he is aware anything short of victory will eliminate his team.

Incidentally, the last time both teams faced off at the Nations Cup finals was at Libya 1982, when a young Nigerian team walloped the Ethiopians 3-0 in a group phase match in Benghazi with Keshi getting one of the goals.

Ethiopia Vs Nigeria : Match Preview

AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS Venue: Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg
Date: Tuesday 29 January Kick-off: 17:00 GMT

Nigeria go into their final group game chasing their first win, while Ethiopia are bottom of the pile with a point.

The Super Eagles stand in second place in Group C with two points, having conceded late equalisers to Burkina Faso and Zambia.
Ethiopia may be without striker Adane Girma, who scored their only goal of the finals, and Asrat Mergasa.
Girma has a leg injury after coming off in the Ethiopians' defeat to Burkina Faso and Mergasa has a knee injury.

Ethiopia coach Sewnet Bishaw:

"Before the match I will tell my players to play football and to gain experience out of a huge team like Nigeria.
"We are here to play football and everybody is surprised by our football.
"Our mission is to show the rest of the world that we can play football. That is the message to my players."

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi:

"I am standing by my players, especially John Obi Mikel after his penalty miss against Zambia.
"We have all to play for against Ethiopia and my wish is that we build a commanding lead and hold it."

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Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent

Ethiopian Jews in Israel protest against
 racism on January 18 in Tel Aviv.

Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.

The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.

One of the Ethiopian women who was interviewed is quoted as saying: “They [medical staff] told us they are inoculations. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.” It is alleged that some of the women were forced or coerced to take the drug while in transit camps in Ethiopia.

The drug in question is thought to be Depo-Provera, which is injected every three months and is considered to be a highly effective, long-lasting contraceptive.

Ethiopia coach Sewnet Bishaw targets goal glut against Nigeria

Ethiopia coach Sewnet Bishaw believes they must face their last encounter
 against Nigeria with a hunger for goals if they are to go through to the quarter-finals.

With a mathematical chance of going through to the last eight, the Walya Antelopes’ trainer says that his side must go into their final game against the Eagles in search of victory

The Walya Antelopes were defeated 4-0 by 10-man Burkina Faso in their second match in Group C.

Having taken a point in their first game against Zambia, lots was expected from the Ethiopians going into the clash against the west Africans but they fell short, having lost inspirational forward Adane Girma to injury.

“We didn’t expect this result from the very beginning. We hoped that we would play again like the first game and take a point against Burkina Faso,” said Bishaw.

Ethiopia trains before match against Burkina Faso

Baby doc aids colleagues in his native Ethiopia

Dr. Mesfin Woldesenbet, center, looks
on while a pediatrics intern examines
 a newborn baby in a hospital in Ethiopia.

Woldesenbet, who prefers simply to be called Dr. Mesfin, traveled extensively in his career before arriving in Houston, spending seven years in England immediately after leaving his home country before heading to New York for his residency. After leaving the Big Apple, Mesfin went to Texas for a fellowship before finally settling in as the medical director of the Neonatal ICU at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Mesfin, along with his wife and two children, currently lives in Missouri City.

Mesfin has used his position to do a tremendous amount of good in the United States, but it was a recent trip to his home country that truly opened his eyes to a problem that needs immediate attention.

“I was really shocked by what I saw,” Mesfin said, describing the extremely high infant mortality rate in Ethiopia. “In the U.S., approximately out of 1,000 deliveries, eight are born dead, compared to 77 in Ethiopia.”

Ethiopian fans rule AFCON

THE first sight I noticed after pulling back my hotel curtains yesterday morning was a band of cleaners combing through most streets of Nelspruit.

The reason was simple. They were gathering up all evidence of celebrations sparked by Ethiopia’s historic 1-1 draw against African champions Zambia the previous night.

The approximately 13,000 Ethiopian fans here are clearly enjoying the Orange Nations Cup party more than anyone and last night all streets through Nelspruit were not only flooded with celebrating fans in a night-long fiesta but also paper plates, bottles and discarded paraphernalia.

There was one interesting sight outside the Mbombela Stadium when over-excited fans hijacked a mini bus and forced the driver to hand over his keys. They then danced on the roof of the bus as it careered through the city.