Yeshi Buna, Brisbane: the Ethiopian restaurant where combination platters are everything
When you enter Brisbane restaurant Yeshi Buna, you are greeted with the smell of roasted coffee, frankincense and berbere, the fragrant Ethiopian-Eritrean chilli and spice blend. Yeshi Buna is run by husband and wife team Workneh and Yeshi Belihu. Yalemzerf Adam, a friend of the restaurant, performs a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. Yeshi Belihu prepares injera in the Yeshi Buna kitchen. The tiny Yeshi Buna in Moorooka; larger groups should book ahead.
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September 30, 2023 04:19 UTC
Ethiopian Middle-Distance Stars: Shining Bright Amidst Record-Breaking Year
Her silver medal at the World Championships in Budapest this year showcased her remarkable progress. Despite being selected primarily for the 5000m at the World Championships, an event she had contested just once before, Hailu persevered. She now eagerly anticipates her first road mile as a benchmark for future endeavors. The Ethiopian Middle-Distance RenaissanceThe Ethiopian women’s middle-distance running team has been growing steadily. The best may still be on the horizon for these rising Ethiopian middle-distance stars.
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September 30, 2023 00:27 UTC
Ethiopia coffee plants: the birthplace of coffee?
Ethiopia or Yemen: the origins of coffee cultivationMeanwhile, yet another legend tells that Yemen established coffee cultivation in the 15th century. “By the 15th century, coffee was being grown in the Yemeni district of Arabia and by the 16th century it was known in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey,” according to the National Coffee Association. Today, Ethiopia is the seventh largest producer of coffee and the largest producer from Africa. From Ethiopia to Black Wall StreetUltimately, the story of coffee eventually made its way from the fields of Ethiopia to the storefront of a business on Black Wall Street. “Moving to 21 Greenwood and being able to call Black Wall Street our home is a dream,” Asamoa-Caesar told The Black Wall St. Times.
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September 29, 2023 14:27 UTC
Ethiopia’s food security goal remains elusive
Earlier this year, the government announced that it would be selling grain worth $200m to developmental partners, including the World Food Programme (WFP), to cater for their Ethiopian operations, giving the government in Addis Ababa an opportunity to earn scarce foreign currency. There's more to this story Get unlimited access to our exclusive journalism and features today. Our award-winning team of correspondents and editors report from over 54 African countries, from Cape Town to Cairo, from Abidjan to Abuja to Addis Ababa. Subscribe Now cancel anytime Already a a subscriber Sign In
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September 29, 2023 12:04 UTC
September 29, 2023 – DW – 09/29/2023
09/29/2023 September 29, 2023The Philippines and China tussle on the high seas of Southeast Asia. We take a closer look at what the Scarborough Shoal is, and why this is happening. Plus, the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "alternative Nobel," is awarded to three groups, including a Cambodian environmental activist organization called Mother Nature Cambodia.
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September 29, 2023 04:23 UTC
Report: Atrocities, War Crimes Pervade Northern Ethiopia Despite Peace Pact
A report presented Thursday to the U.N. Human Rights Council accuses all parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia of widespread atrocities, many amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, despite a peace agreement signed nearly a year ago. The blistering 21-page report from the three-member International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia documents wide-ranging atrocities committed since the conflict between the government and the Tigray Liberation Front erupted November 3, 2020. "The Ethiopian national defense forces, Eritrean defense forces, regional forces and affiliated militias perpetrated violations in Tigray on a staggering scale,” he said. The commission urged the Human Rights Council to ensure continued robust international investigations and public reporting of the situation in Ethiopia. He called the report substandard, professionally deficient and conspicuously political, noting that since the signing of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, Ethiopia has redoubled its efforts to consolidate peace in the country.
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September 22, 2023 00:13 UTC
State Dept IT contractor charged with espionage, allegedly sent classified information to Ethiopia
He started in information technology work at the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 2021, where he maintained a security clearance. He also currently works as a "contract management analyst" at the Justice Department, court papers said, and had access to classified information. He was also seen taking notes on or copying the classified information into Word documents. And multiple times last month, according to prosecutors, Lemma allegedly stored the sensitive information onto a disc and illegally transported it to his Maryland residence. In a statement, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller praised the FBI and Justice Department "for the diligent work that led to an arrest and charges in this matter."
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September 22, 2023 00:09 UTC
US contractor charged with giving classified information to Ethiopia
WASHINGTON - A U.S. government contract employee for the Justice and State Departments was arrested on espionage charges unsealed on Thursday, prosecutors said, accusing him of passing on classified information to Ethiopia. He faced three charges including "delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government, conspiracy to deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and the willful retention of national defense information," the Justice Department said. Between December 2022, and August 2023, Lemma copied classified information from intelligence reports and deleted the classification markings from them, the Justice Department said. Lemma then removed the information, which was classified as 'secret' and 'top secret,' from secure facilities at the State Department. Lemma used an encrypted application to transmit classified national defense information to a foreign government official associated with a foreign country's intelligence service, the Justice Department said.
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September 21, 2023 23:12 UTC
US contractor charged with giving classified information to Ethiopia By Reuters
He faced three charges including "delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government, conspiracy to deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and the willful retention of national defense information," the Justice Department said. Between December 2022, and August 2023, Lemma copied classified information from intelligence reports and deleted the classification markings from them, the Justice Department said. Lemma then removed the information, which was classified as 'secret' and 'top secret,' from secure facilities at the State Department. Lemma used an encrypted application to transmit classified national defense information to a foreign government official associated with a foreign country's intelligence service, the Justice Department said. The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had undertaken a "self-initiated 60-day internal security review" in which it was uncovered that its contractor "may have removed, retained and transmitted classified national defense information without authorization."
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September 21, 2023 22:02 UTC
US Contractor Charged With Giving Classified Information to Ethiopia
Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, was charged in a complaint from late August, which was unsealed on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. He faced three charges including "delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government, conspiracy to deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and the willful retention of national defense information," the Justice Department said. Between December 2022, and August 2023, Lemma copied classified information from intelligence reports and deleted the classification markings from them, the Justice Department said. Lemma then removed the information, which was classified as 'secret' and 'top secret,' from secure facilities at the State Department. Lemma used an encrypted application to transmit classified national defense information to a foreign government official associated with a foreign country's intelligence service, the Justice Department said.
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September 21, 2023 21:59 UTC
Southwestern Ethiopia: 30 Refugees Die of Hunger, Malnutrition
In recent months, the region has also provided shelter to thousands of Sudanese refugees escaping the ongoing fighting that erupted in mid-April. On Wednesday evening, the state-backed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said that thirty refugees have died in Ethiopia's southwestern region of Gambela due to hunger and malnutrition. Official data shows that Gambela Region has hosted tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees who have fled civil conflict since 2013. In recent months, the region has also provided shelter to thousands of Sudanese refugees escaping the ongoing fighting that erupted in mid-April. pic.twitter.com/UcGHriQfvL — WHO Ethiopia (@WHOEthiopia) September 21, 2023In June, the World Food Program of the United Nations announced the suspension of most food aid programs in Ethiopia, citing large-scale aid misappropriation.
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September 21, 2023 21:49 UTC
UN investigators warn of risk of future atrocities in Ethiopia
Human rights commission says atrocities in Ethiopia continue and urges Human Rights Council to renew its mandate. UN-appointed investigators have warned that more atrocities were likely to be carried out in Ethiopia and called for continued scrutiny of Addis Ababa’s human rights record as their work faces termination amid strong African-led opposition. Both sides accused each other of atrocities, including massacres, rape and arbitrary detentions, but each denied responsibility for systemic abuses. The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, composed of three independent experts, said earlier this week in a report that war crimes and crimes against humanity were still being committed in Ethiopia. Ethiopia, which has denied committing widespread abuses, has strongly opposed the probe and tried to cut its work short.
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September 21, 2023 21:21 UTC
Boeing Settles Eight More Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max Civil Cases
Boeing Co. on Wednesday reached eight more settlement agreements related to a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster that killed all 157 passengers and crew, according to court documents. A 2019 civil complaint alleged Boeing’s flight control system for the aircraft used on the flight, a new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was “unreasonably dangerous” and had a “defective design” that erroneously pushed the aircraft’s nose downward. The crash occurred minutes after takeoff. “As a condition of the settlement, the parties have agreed to keep the amount of the settlement confidential,” said the agreements, which were substantially similar to each other. Boeing stipulated ...
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September 21, 2023 21:01 UTC