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Read Eritrea's story: Push to Prevent Domestic Violence in Oakland Teen Dating – KCBS
Push to Prevent Domestic Violence in Oak. Teen Dating
OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS) — About one in three teens is in an abusive relationship, but efforts are underway to change that statistic. The largest National Public Health Initiative ever funded, has been launched to stop the spread of teen dating violence.
KCBS’ Margie Shafer Reports
Dating...
US Prepared to Give Further Aid to Somali Government – VOA
US Prepared to Give Further Aid to Somali Government
By David Gollust (VOA)
State Department
30 July 2009
The State Department’s top Africa envoy said Thursday the Obama administration is prepared to provide more military help to Somalia’s embattled Transitional Federal Government, the TFG. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins...
Egypt police kill African migrant at Israel border and arrest 14 Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants – Reuters
Egypt police kill African migrant at Israel border
Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:25am EDT
EL-ARISH, Egypt, July 31 (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant trying to cross the border into Israel on Friday, security and medical sources said, the latest killing in an upsurge of violence at the sensitive frontier.
The man, who was shot in the chest and right leg, was announced dead on arrival...
VIDEO: Johnnie Carson – Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Upcoming Trip to Africa and question about Eritrea's role in Somalia
Briefing on Secretary Clinton’s Upcoming Trip to Africa
Johnnie Carson
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of African Affairs
Washington, DC
July 30, 2009
MR. WOOD: Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Today we have for you Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Ambassador Johnnie Carson. He’s going to speak to you about Secretary Clinton’s upcoming trip to Africa. He’s...
VIDEO: President Isaias Afwerki's interview with Channel 4 Television London
President Isaias Conducts Interview with International Media outlets on domestic, regional and international issues
By Shabait
Jul 21, 2009, 12:35
President Isaias Afwerki conducted extensive interview with the Financial Times newspaper, Channel 4 Television and The Guardian newspaper on the objective situation in the country, as well as regional and international issues.
In the interview mainly...
VIDEO: ERI-TV interview with EPPF and Ethiopian Review (Part 2, Part 3)
PART 3 and FINAL plus other news
VIDEO: ERI-TV interview with EPPF and Ethiopian Review (Part 2) and other news
VIDEO: ERI-TV interview with EPPF and Ethiopian Review (Part 1)
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UK Asylum-seekers among first victims of cuts in public spending as state support is slashed to £35 a week
Budget squeeze hits the weakest
Asylum-seekers among first victims of cuts in public spending as state support is slashed to £35 a week
By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor
The Independent, Thursday, 30 July 2009
Eritrean refugee Sysay Tedros, pictured with her daughter, fled to the UK when her father was jailed
Asylum-seekers have become early victims of the squeeze on government...
Abraham Mesfun survives stabbing in the chest twice during a foiled robbery attempt – The Suburban
Straight from the heart
By P.A. Sévigny
The Suburban – Quebec’s English Newspaper
The last time Abraham Mesfun saw SPVM Officer Annie-Claude Beaudoin, she was holding a pressure bandage against his chest while he was lying in a pool of blood.
“I’m dying,” he said when Beaudoin found him on the corner of Marcil and Sherbrooke Street. “I know...