Abesha United

FILM: Motherland

[Translate] Motherland (Enat Hager) is a bold, epic journey through Africa with a authentic African voice. Fusing history, culture, politics, and contemporary issues, Motherland sweeps across Africa to tell a new story of a dynamic continent. From the glory and majesty of Africa’s past through its complex and present history. Motherland looks unflinchingly toward a positive [...]

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VIDEO: Israel accused of dooming Ethiopian baby boom

[Translate] A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being given a controversial contraceptive drug to bring about a drop in the population – a claim the government denies. Thousands of Ethiopians have immigrated to Israel since the 1980s, but their Jewish [...]

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BOOK RELEASE: Beneath the Lion´s gaze by MAAZA MENGISTE

[Translate] An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. This memorable heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution.  Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the [...]

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VIDEO: The Girl Effect, Addis + Kidan

[Translate] The Girl Effect: The powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society. WHY GIRLS? Because when adolescent girls in the developing world have a chance, they can be the most powerful force of change for themselves, their families, communities and nations. But while those 600 million girls are the [...]

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ARTICAL: What has to be the truth for Flight ET409?

[Translate] Editor’s Note – Lebanese officials were quick to blame the pilot of the doomed Flight ET409 for the deadliest crash off Beirut early on Monday. Ethiomedia disproved the report by publishing its own article: Device recovery key to identifying cause of crash, a story that may have failed to grab the attention of our esteemed [...]

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RACISM: “MISERY” IN ETHIOPIA – an racist edcuated swedish doctor´s view of contemprary Ethiopia

[Translate] This post is written by an educated swedish doctor ANNA ADIELSSON. 2009 she spend atleast 8 000 Euros to cycle from Egypt all the way through Africa to South Africa. In many of her blogpost she portrays a very distrubing view of “Africa”  but it´s the way she describes her MISERY in Ethiopia where pour [...]

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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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WARNING 4 ABESHA “CONARTIST” without no shame

[Translate] WARNING!!!! Once or twice a year “Ephrem Beshah” will recycle this email and send it out to random abesha people via email. Do NOT send “him” money. He is just a plain lier/scam artist who has as aim to take advantage of the solidarity of the ethiopian diaspora in order to get rich. …. Hello How are you doing?, [...]

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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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MOVIE: Sele Feker

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MOVIE: Desert Flower – Liya Kebede’s Upcoming Movie

[Translate] More Pictures of Liya Movie Mysterious, proud, beautiful, as the young Somalierin Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede) in a London fast-food restaurant by star photographer Terry Donaldson (Timothy Spall) is detected, celebrating the international fashion world inspired the birth of a new top models. But behind the glamorous facade hides a deeply moving destiny. Born in [...]

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DIASPORA: Ethiopian-american appreciation day – for change! (09-25-09)

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SPORT: Bekele win his forth-in-a-row 10 000 m victory and Ethiopia´s first WC-Gold! + video interview

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DIASPORA: Suicide twice as likely for Ethiopians in Israel

[Translate] In the years 1990-2000, the suicide rate of youths of Ethiopian extraction was double that of their age group, according to the Health Ministry. The ministry released this data in a position paper that was discussed in the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee yesterday. In the discussion, held on Mental Health Day, the committee decided [...]

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