Asmara and Eritrea "Constructed almost entirely between 1936 and 1941, Asmara was effectively a blank canvas on which its Italian colonizers were able to design and build their own urban utopia in East Africa…… owing to Asmara's relative obscurity and distance from Europe, the architects and engineers who came to practice there could escape the constraints imposed on their activities... 

VOA | Heather Murdock | Sana'a In recent months, thousands of Ethiopians living in Yemen, have been returned to Africa.  Members of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, say they are systematically abused in Ethiopia and they travel to Yemen out of fear for their lives.  But Yemeni and Ethiopian officials say they are in search of better jobs, not in fear of political persecution. ... 

Posted by Angela Garbes on March 3, 2010 at 5:17 PM After six hours of trying to make sense of U.S. Census data, I was confused and close to tears. I was also hungry—a deadly combination. There is a reason, I reminded myself, that I am a food writer and not a statistician. It was clearly time to stop, step away from the computer, and eat some Ethiopian food. It had all started with what I thought... 

committee, Mar 4, 2010   On the beautiful winter morning of Monday February 22nd – Eritreans old and young including disabled ones on a wheel chair, from all over the western United States of America – as far from Colorado in the east Seattle to the North and Arizona to the south, flocked in front of the UN plaza in the beautiful hilly – port city of San Francisco....