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I recently returned from some wonderful, eye-opening, and unforgettable experiences in India and Ethiopia. In my previous blog I talked about the incredible energy at...
One of the world’s largest Christian humanitarian organizations aims to raise $25 million to fight poverty this Christmas season by interviewing poor people around the world.
, November 30, 2009 (ENS) - More than two tons of illegal ivory have been seized and more than 100 people have been arrested in the largest international operation targeting wildlife crime across Eastern Africa, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced today.
The world's deadliest cattle disease could be wiped off the face of the planet in the next 18 months , according to a report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). [More]
EDITOR'S NOTE: The International Mission Board has released its Annual Statistical Report for 2009, which provides information on God's work around the world during 2008. This is the first of two stories that look beyond the numbers in the Annual Statistical Report to the lives changed by Southern Baptist missionaries and their ministry partners.
Albany City Manager Wes Hare headed to Africa over the weekendto spend three weeks volunteering in a town on the west side ofEthiopia.
Wildlife officials here Monday displayed more than half a tonne of recently-seized ivory, reflecting a rise in poaching they said was prompted by the controversial sale of stockpiled tusks last year.
More than 2 tons of ivory has been seized and more than 100 people arrested in an international operation targeting wildlife crime in eastern Africa, Interpol announced Monday.
Elizabeth Kennedy, The Associated Press's bureau chief for East Africa until last month, has been named the news cooperative's chief of bureau in Beirut.
(November 30, 2009) Internews Network helped develop World AIDS Day SMS that will be sent to more than 2.5 million people in Ethiopia from the President of Ethiopia, Girma Woldegiorgis.
African authorities raided shops, intercepted vehicles at checkpoints and used sniffer dogs to detect and seize over 3,800 pounds (1,768 kilograms) of illegal elephant ivory in a six-nation operation, Interpol and the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Shares in gold and base metal explorer Stratex International zipped higher on Monday after the company announced a significant discovery of first epithermal gold mineralisation in Ethiopia.
LODI - When Max Love attended the annual International Education Week at Lodi High School as a student there, it fueled his interest in global learning and led to his desire to serve in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe.
Nairobi - The latest phase of an INTERPOL-coordinated operation across six African countries has led to the seizure of 568 kilogrammes of illegal ivory and 65 arrests, including three Chinese nationals, the Kenya Wildlife Service said MondayJust unde...
SAN MATEO, Calif.----Addis Voice announced today that more than 10,000 people in over 60 countries are using the Addis Voice conduit to freely get news and information about Ethiopia that was otherwise denied them by the Ethiopian government.
A liquor store owner assaulted during an attempted robbery was recovering today, and three suspects were at large. The three males entered a liquor store on Pico Boulevard at Hauser Boulevard near Little Ethiopia around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
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