Day: January 1, 2015
- Africa
Ethiopia denies reports about Yemen migrants’ drowning
Foreign Ministry spokesperson denies reports of drowning, saying reports are baseless propaganda. Ethiopian authorities have denied media reports about the drowning of around 70 Ethiopian migrants off Yemen’s coast. “Media reports that 70 people died, mostly Ethiopians, while being ferried to Yemen is baseless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti told The Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. Media reports earlier…
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Ethiopians Seeking Birth Control: Caught Between Church And State
Her head draped with thin white fabric in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, Konjit walked to the stately entrance to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa. But the soft-spoken 26-year-old did not go inside to pray because of her “sin.” Days before, she had had an abortion; she had become pregnant after her birth control failed. Like many women in…
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