ELIAS MESERET Sat, October 24, 2020, 5:47 AM EDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Saturday denounced “belligerent threats” over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile River, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will “blow up” the project it has called an existential threat. Ethiopia’s Read more
Fifty trafficked Nigerian women have been rescued from Lebanon and returned home, Nigeria’s foreign minister says. They have all been placed in quarantine following their arrival on Sunday as a precaution against coronavirus. The country’s anti-trafficking agency will interview them about their experiences after their isolation ends. Last month, a Nigerian woman working as a Read more
Bayelign Teshager, a 20-year-old from Ethiopia making his marathon debut, won the 35th Los Angeles Marathon Sunday morning, pulling away from Kenya’s John Langat in the final mile for a 2 hour, 8 minute, 25 second victory. Teshager, who turns 20 Monday, threw in a series of surges toward the bottom of San Vicente Boulevard Read more
