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AFAR &
ARABIC CLASSES
We are pleased to
inform that ACA is now running AFAR & ARABIC Classes
for the
Family & Children.
DAY: SATURDAYS
& SUNDAYS
TIME:
2 30 - 5PM
PLACE:
AFAR COMMUNITY CENTRE
ADDRESS: 46
MYRDLE STREET - WHITECHAPEL
LONDON
E1 1HL
CONTACT:
020 7377 6353 or 0798 555 3869
The Afar Quest of
self-determination and
the denial of the Eritrean politicians.
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ETHIOPIA:
Urban poor finding it harder to get food
Photo: Tesfalem Waldyes/IRIN
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Many residents of Addis Ababa live in slums, struggling everyday to
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ADDIS
ABABA, 25 August 2008 (IRIN) - Fatuma Ali and Tieba Hussein left Hara
village in Wollo, Amhara region of northeastern Ethiopia with some
of their neighbours, believing that they could improve their livelihoods
in the capital city, Addis Ababa. "Our husbands decided to stay in the
village with the children," Fatuma, a mother of three, told IRIN as her
sister and mother of one looked on. "If rain comes, we will return to the
village."
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Le
Premier ministre accorde une audience à Mme Wang Xiadou
Le Premier ministre, M. Dileita Mohamed Dileita, a reçu lundi la visite de
courtoisie de l’ambassadrice de la République Populaire de Chine, Mme Wang
Xiadou.
Cette rencontre, qui intervient à quelques jours de la participation du PM
djiboutien à la cérémonie d’ouverture des JO de Pékin, a été l’occasion de
passer en revue de nombreux sujets portant essentiellement sur le
renforcement du partenariat entre Djibouti et la République Populaire de
Chine. [Read More - Suite ....]
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Institute
discovers highly nutritious microbes in Afar State
Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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The Ethiopian Institute of Biodiversity conservation discovered a type
of microbes with huge nutritional value and which contributes to the
body's natural capacity to overcome diseases in the State of Afar
the Institute disclosed.
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DJIBOUTI: Access to food halved
NAIROBI, 14 August 2008 (IRIN) - Access to food in Djibouti has been
cut by more than 50 percent because of reduced availability and rising
prices, according to a humanitarian official. "The price of rice
[the main staple] had gone up by 28 percent since January and by 88
percent from [the average price] in 2007," Nancy Balfour, the disaster
management coordinator for the Zonal Office of the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told IRIN.
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High demand microbes discovered in Afar State, Ethiopia.
Friday
08 August 2008
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Genena Tefera
DJIBOUTI SUSPENDS PORT TARIFF INCREASE
10 August 2008
The
government of Djibouti has suspended planned tariff increases on port
services, a day before it was due to come into effect on August 15, 2008.
The board of Djibouti Port Authority, chaired by powerful businessman
Abdourahiman Boreh, decided to suspend the average 15pc hike. DP World
Djibouti said it was forced to raise tariffs due to high oil prices on the
global market and inflationary pressures in Djibouti. The board’s
decision came following an executive instruction from the country’s
President, Ismael Omar Guelleh, sources in Djibouti told Fortune.
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HIGH DEMAND MICROBES
DISCOVERED IN AFAR STATE, ETHIOPIA
Friday, 08 August 2008
Ethiopia faces a new food crisis
 Secretary
- General Ban Ki-Moon
31
July 2008 – A fact-finding mission dispatched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
has arrived in the Horn of Africa to assess the political, security and
humanitarian situation along the border between Djibouti and Eritrea, in
light of the recent tensions there.
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Delegations from Afar Community Association in UK
& the British Army Officers at Queen Marry University
General Secretary of ACA Mr. Houmed Mohamed Ali
and members of ACA have recently participated in the British Army
Presentation event held 0n 30 June 2008, at Queen Mary University upon the
Invitation of Colonel CPH Knaggs OBE, Commander.
Representatives from Afar Community with Cllr. Ann Jackson
Mayor of Tower Hamlets
General
Sectary & Secretary of Culture a long with some active members
of ACA are participated in public meeting organized by London Borough of
Tower Hamlets Council.
An Afar woman with her starving young boy 
Severe droughts, together with
rising food prices, have left millions in Ethiopia in need of emergency food
assistance.
Source: BCC 2008
Photo: by Nick Danziger/Oxfam
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People in Afar, Ethiopia, say they are struggling to survive - BBC Video
Shop-keeper Mohammed says people would need three
goats to buy a single sack of grain - which would last an average family a week
or two. One mother whose family has been eating animal feed asked: "How long
before our children start to fall sick? We have been living like this for a
month" Oxfam is calling on donors to increase aid levels to the region. "The
cost of food has escalated by up to 500% in some places, leaving people who have
suffered drought after drought in utter destitution," says Oxfam's Rob McNeil,
who has just returned from the Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia.
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World holds breath as Eritrea,
Djibouti eye war
Djibouti, Thursday August, 7, 2008
With world oil prices soaring, the very real possibility of an outbreak
of war between Eritrea and Djibouti is of increasing concern to the
United States and other Western powers.
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PRESS
RELEASE
London 03/08/2007
The Afar Community Association in UK has recently organized the first UK Afar
Cultural Event in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The aim of the event was
to bring together the dispersed and divided Afar Community living in the UK, to
celebrate and raise awareness about Afar heritage and promote community cohesion
by building links with other communities, service providers and local
Authorities to meet the needs of the Afar in the UK.
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