Ethiopia Devalues Its Currency 17% Against DollarSeptember 01, 2010, 11:46 AM EDT(Updates with comment from International Monetary Fund in fourth paragraph.) Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia devalued its currency, the birr, by 17 percent against the dollar, the third such move in the past 14 months, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia. OF COLONEL GADAFI AND ARAB RACISMBy Hama Tuma
“We don’t know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans,”( Col Gaddafi said in Rome, August 30/ 2010. ሶማሊያ ኢትዮጵያን ስትወረር የወያኔ መሪዎች “ዜግነታቸው” ሶማሌ አስብለው ነበርጌታቸው ረዳ www.ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com August 31/2010 ETHIOPIANS ABROAD INCREASINGLY ENDANGERED
For immediate release: To members of the media From: EPRPYL PR Team Dear friends ![]() Court hears Khmer Rouge testimonyCourt officials have finally started to outline the case against a former Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia. After months of pre-trial hearings, the former prison chief known as Comrade Duch listened while a court official read out the charges against him. Report says EU biofuel demand fuelling land grab in AfricaNAIROBI, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) --The demand for biofuel in the European Union is fuelling land grabbing in Africa, reducing the land available to grow crops in a continent that already faces food deficit situation, a new report has said. Ethiopia: Fear expressed over India’s massive land grabs in Gambelambela, one of the nine regional states of Ethiopia is fast growing into what the local media has described as “a land grabbing” hub among Indian companies. In Brief: Flooding displaces thousands in EthiopiaADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) - Heavy flooding in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia has displaced more than 8,000 people, say officials.
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