Ethiopian man drowned in South Africa
A 30-year-old Ethiopian man drowned on Sunday after a torrent of water swept away his car, police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone said. “It is alleged that the victim was driving along Middle Street in...
View ArticleTwo Ethiopian women injured in Saudi Arabia
Police were acting on complaint that apartment in Al Qasimiya area of Sharjah housed a number of illegal residents Two women jumped off a balcony on the first level of an apartment complex on Tuesday...
View ArticleEthiopia is home to the largest Child Sex Trafficking in Africa – U.S.
OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are...
View ArticleEthiopians reentry to the Saudi labor market is subject to finalize new...
Saudi’s Ministry of Labor said today that it has not yet finished a review of regulations streamlining the resumption of Ethiopian workers to enter the Saudi labor market. Undersecretary of the...
View ArticleEthiopia strives to control its population growth
Ethiopia will seek to rein in its population growth by bringing its people’s fertility rate down to 2.6 percent in 2020 from 4.1 percent at present, a government official has said. “With 90 million...
View ArticleEthiopian maid takes her own life in Saudi Arabia
An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to...
View ArticleEthiopian Leading Gang Of Maid Traffickers Arrested
The Gang Involved In Trafficking Of Housemaids In Police Custody. An Ethiopian Woman Was Leading The Group And Supplying Maids To Citizens And Expatriates KUWAIT CITY: Officers from the General...
View ArticleEthiopian maid ‘accuses WHO official in Thailand of slavery’
AFP -Thai police said Wednesday they are investigating a senior Bangkok-based World Health Organization official and his wife after their Ethiopian maid accused them of modern-day slavery and physical...
View ArticleTop WHO official in Thailand denies beating maid, treating her like slave
A 25-year-old Ethiopian maid has accused Dr Yonas Tegegn, the World Health Organisation’s representative in Thailand, and his wife, of abusing her and forcing her to work without pay for nearly two...
View ArticleMigrant boat capsizes off Libya, 400 feared dead
AP ROME – Survivors of a capsized migrant boat off Libya have told the aid group Save the Children that an estimated 400 people are believed to have drowned. Even before the survivors were interviewed,...
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