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• Sudan’s RSF arrests 300 illegal immigrants near Libyan border

  Jul 7, 2016 by Admin / 299 Views

  The Sudanese government militia; Rapid Support Force (RSF); on Monday said that they arrested over 300 illegal immigrants heading to Libya across the remote desert of Northern State.

  Sudan is considered as a country of origin and transit for the illegal migration and human trafficking. Thousands of people from Eritrea and Ethiopia are monthly crossing the border into the Sudanese territories on their way to Europe through Libya or Egypt.

  Last June, hundreds of Rapid Support Force elements have been deployed in the Northern State shortly after complaint by the governor of drug and human trafficking by the criminal networks.

  RSF Commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Hametti, told the pro-government al-Shrooq TV that his force, which was combing the western desert in the northern state, has arrested over 300 illegal immigrants in Al-Sheverlite area on the Sudanese- Libyan borders.

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• Ethiopian businesses, community begin to flourish in Las Vegas

  Jul 7, 2016 by Admin / 231 Views

  A former tuxedo rental store.

  

  A Mexican restaurant.

  A hair salon.

  These are the past lives of buildings at the corner of West Flamingo Road and South Decatur Boulevard that have been revamped within the last year by Ethiopian business owners.

  In the last year, an Ethiopian-owned restaurant, coffee shop, and driving school have taken root in the Flamingo Business Centre, joining a hub of Ethiopian businesses across the street, less than a mile from the Palms.

  Seven months ago, a former tuxedo rental store was transformed into Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant, 4850 W. Flamingo Road, named after the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton that was the oldest known human ancestor upon its discovery in Ethiopia in 1974.

  Behind that restaurant, an Ethiopian couple opened a party supplies store last month.

  Two doors down is a driving school initially started to serve people in the Ethiopian community who didn’t speak English. Now it serves a myriad of customers in various languages, according to its owner Woldu Tereda, 40, who also has a stake in the restaurant.

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• ‘Rastafari in Motion’: Haile Selassie and the Rastafari movement in Britain

  Jul 7, 2016 by Admin / 247 Views

  The Black Cultural Archives in collaboration with the Rastafari Regal Livity is curating an exhibition titled, ‘Rastafari in Motion’. The exhibition focuses on the appearance of Rastafarianism in Britain and its impact on British society. It also centres on the lives of renowned UK Rastafarian activist, Ras Seymour Mclean and Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.

  Emperor Haile Selassie 1, (1892 – 1975) was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. Though a Christian throughout his life, Selassie was revered as messiah and representation of God on earth by the Rastafaris, a religious and cultural movement which originated in Jamaica in the 1930s. The Rastafari movement derives its name from Selassie’s pre–coronation title, Ras Tafari Makonnen.

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• Floods deal ‘staggering’ blow to pastoralists recovering from Ethiopia’s long drought – UN

  Jul 7, 2016 by Admin / 274 Views

  The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced that floods across Ethiopia have severely impacted the recovery processes, particularly for livestock-dependent families,following more than 18 months of dry spells and poor rainfall induced by an El Niño drought phenomenon.

  Estimates rose significantly in June, as updated reports from the Ethiopia’s National Flood Task Force show that close to 690,000 people are now likely be affected, with over 320,000 estimated to be displaced, said the agency in a report.

  “These predictions may rise even further as these heavy rains come on the cusp of what some meteorological experts predict will be a significant La Niña episode – usually accompanied by heavy rainfall – starting as early as September 2016,” added FAO.
  Particularly affected are the livestock-dependent households, as well over 55,000 hectares of land, much of it pasture, has been flooded, and thousands of livestock have died due to flash floods and landslides, brought on by the long-awaited belg or spring season rains, in regions such as Somali, SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region), Oromia, Amhara and Afar.

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• UN Body Sees $4 Billion Aid Need as El Nino Hurts 60 Million

  Jul 7, 2016 by Admin / 337 Views

  Over 100 million people may be affected by weather phenomena

  Almost $4 billion is needed to meet the humanitarian demands of countries facing food shortages because of an El Nino-induced drought, the United Nations said.

  About 60 million people, including 40 million in eastern and southern Africa, face a lack of food because of El Nino, which has scorched crops, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization said in a statement on its Website Wednesday. With scientists forecasting an increasing likelihood of the opposite rain- and flood-inducing La Nina taking place, the number of those affected by the combined impacts of the events may reach 100 million, it said.

  The El Nino-induced drought damaged crops from palm oil, rice and sugar in Asia to grains in southern Africa and robusta coffee in South America. Storms spurred by the phenomenon have wiped out harvests in Fiji and some of its neighboring island states, the FAO said.

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