Abesha United

STOP SHOOTING AFRICANS at Egypt-Israel Border – SIGN THE PETITION!!!!

[Translate] Join the United African Organization (UAO) in protesting the treatment of Africans crossing the Egypt-Israel border. Help us present a united front for their human rights! Last week, Egyptian border guards shot and killed an African who was trying to get over the border and into Israel. This brings the official total to 16 migrants [...]

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VIDEO: America’s New Frontline: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Translate] Rageh Omaar travels to the US and through East and West Africa to investigate the US strategy for the continent. Can Barack Obama make a decisive break with the path set in Africa by the Bush administration?

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ARTICAL: The Real Genocide is Playing Out in Ethiopia–And the West is Funding It

[Translate] Busting the myth As one of the first to write about the problems in West Sudan/Darfur, in mid 2003, and living side by side here in Asmara for three years with representatives of the Darfur, and other Sudanese resistance, my investigation has found no evidence of genocide. Of course, genocide has and is being committed by Ethiopia against [...]

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VIDEO: Abesha maids abused in arab countries (this is OLD news!!!!)

[Translate] Gulf labour laws fail to halt abuse Every year thousands of women arrive in the Gulf to take up jobs as domestic workers. The majority of them leave behind their families on a huge financial gamble to try to earn enough in remittances. But behind closed doors, in the homes of their employers, some [...]

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“Mezeker Means To Remember” Mike Ellis (Def Poetry)

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ARTICAL: Lieberman used Africa trip to lay groundwork for arms deals

[Translate] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman returns Friday from a visit in five African states, where in addition to discussing Africa’s internal problems, he and his entourage laid the groundwork for weapons deals. While Lieberman talked with African leaders about the hunger, water shortage, malnutrition and plagues afflicting their nations, the visit was also used to advance arms [...]

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BOOK: When we ruled

[Translate] When We Ruled is by far the best general work on the ancient and medieval history of Black people there has ever been. When We Ruled – Front CoverThis landmark publication, which is superbly illustrated with high quality photographs, maps and drawings, provides an extraordinary and cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeological data, the documentary evidence, and [...]

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Country Case Studies: The Horn of Africa (Somalia-Eritrea-Ethiopia)

[Translate] Lecture in the ’African Security’ series (NAI – FOI samarbetsprojekt) Country Case Studies: The Horn of Africa (Somalia-Eritrea-Ethiopia). Ken Menkhaus and Abdi Samatar. Filmed 4 May, 2009 Part 1: Ken Menkhaus (66 min) Part 2: Abdi Samatar (55 min)

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