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  Updated August 13, 2006

Banks obtain compensation for war loss

Ethiopia to help TFG request for lifting of arms embargo

Pleading guilty: businesses closed after 2005 elections re-open after apology
Dr. Berhanu Nega publishes book from prison
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Protesting Muslim youth clashing with riot police at Grand Anwar Mosque, Friday August 11, 2006.

Friday prayers turn violent

By Groum Abate and Tedla Yeneakal

Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing Muslims who were protesting on Friday, mourning the blocking of construction work of a mosque two weeks ago around Arat Kilo.

People screamed and fled as the clash began. Several people were bleeding in the streets. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.

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How Ethiopian values differed

 

Professor Richard Pankhurst is the son of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the great British suffragette and advocate of Ethiopia during and after Fascist Italy’s occupation of Ethiopia. Professor Pankhurst taught for many years at Addis Ababa University and has written widely on Ethiopian history and culture. He is also the founder of Addis Ababa University’s Institute of Ethiopian Studies and a founding member of the Axum Obelisk Return Committee and the Association for the Return of the MaqdalaEthiopian Treasures (AFROMET)

 
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English Poetry published 

 

Abate Mekuria revamping his studio

 
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Ato Fiseha Shawel, Desk Officer for Somalia
It is hard to justify the involvement of the Eritrean government in supporting the UIC which is controlled by Al-Ithad, an extremist group.
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