Arash Mosaleh | Channel 2 News
RENO, NEVADA – Nearly $50,000 in marijuana is off the streets, after Reno Police officers arrested a man accused of drug trafficking in downtown Reno Wednesday.
Police arrested Yohannis Mengesha at the Amtrak Station.
They say Yohannes is an immigrant from Ethiopia, in the country illegally.
Cops caught Mengesha with a suitcase filled with marijuana.
Police say they found nearly 20 pounds of marijuana in the suitcase. Police say it’s worth nearly $50,000.
If you have any further information, call Secret Witness at 322-4900. You could get a reward and you don’t have to give your name.
CHICAGO – The couple was determined to get to Grant Park on Election Night, despite the fact that the pregnant woman was six days overdue. They had tickets –– so they were going.
Mawi Asgedom said he and his wife listened to Obama speak, awed, but all the while recording contractions every three to four minutes for about 90 minutes. When the pain became too intense, the pair made their way out of the park and tried to get a cab to take them to the hospital.
Since the streets around the Grant Park event were closed to traffic, the cab search was futile. Asgedom said they walked the mile to Prentice Women’s Hospital, pausing every couple of minutes for more frequent contractions.
The woman was five-centimeters dialated when they arrived at the hospital and their son was born at 5 a.m.
Asgedom said the couple considered naming the boy Barack Hussein Asgedom, but opted for the name they had, apparently, settled on previously: Sawyer Tewolde Asgedom.
Like Obama, Sawyer is the son of an East African man and a Midwestern woman. Sawyer’s mom grew up in Fulton, Ill., and Mawi is a former refugee from Ethiopia who has been a resident of Illinois since age 7.
Mawi Asgedom referred to Tuesday night as “the best 12 hours of our lives,” adding that he knows his son “can do and be anything” in this country.
– NBC Chicago
KUWAIT CITY : Police are looking for three youths for raping an immigrant from Ethiopia, Arrouiah daily reported.
In her complaint to the Fahaheel police, the Ethiopian girl who work as a maid said the incident took place when she was working at the house of her sponsor’s brother.
The sponsor’s nephew reportedly requested her to prepare tea for himself and two of his friends who were with him in a Diwaniya. When she went to serve them tea, the trio tried to molest her. When she resisted, they tied her hands and feet, gagged her mouth and raped her.
The sponsor and his brother have been summoned for interrogation.
–Arab Times
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Ginbot 7 Movement
Ethiopians joyfully celebrate, with Americans and the rest of the world the election of Barack Obama to take the office of the presidency of the United States of America. Ginbot7 recognizes the symbolic and historical significance of this truly remarkable event that changed the United States of America and the world making Barack Obama, an African American, the 44th president of the United States of America. Evidently our joy of celebrating the victory of Barack Obama goes beyond the fact that this prodigious son of Africa has reach the highest summit of political power on Earth.
Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy, has encouraged and mobilised its members and supporters to actively participate in Obama’s campaign, and it has also used its modest means of communication to urge Ethiopian Americans to register and vote for Obama because Ginbot 7 utterly agrees with Obama’s assessment of the failure of American foreign policy that ignored the repression of freedom, justice, and democracy in Africa, Asia, and South America.
We, in Ethiopia have always argued that America’s national interest will best be served if the values of freedom, justice and democracy that made the nation of America great become the guiding spirit of its foreign policy. This is exactly what the president elect promised. We Ethiopians believe the personal convictions of Barack Obama for freedom and justice will guide his administration that America’s fundamental values must not be compromised to satisfy short term American interest.
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Ethiopians are well aware of the challenges the new president faces. Changing the entrenched practices of past administrations, and dealing with the ruthless dictators and human right violators in many parts of the world is a task that needs time, wisdom, and perseverance. Ethiopians are also responsive of how the well connected lobbyists and the politically powerful will try hard to hinder Barack Obama from realizing his new foreign policy visions. Yet, we believe that Obama’s unique ability to defy the odds and become the first African American president of the US will put him in a much better position to over come most of the challenges that he faces.
Most importantly, we believe that Obama’s presidency will have the greatest impact in his ancestral land of Africa. The proud and independent people of Ethiopia believe that the fight for freedom and democracy, and the task of building strong economy in our country is our own responsibility. However, we treasure America’s unconditioned presence in helping us build democratic institutions. We Ethiopians want to make it clear that America’s long term interest in Ethiopia and around the horn of Africa will not be served by supporting Meles Zenawi’s tyrannical regime that invades its neighbours and oppresses its own citizens. All in all, it is the deep-seated belief of Ginbot7 and the Ethiopian people that Obama’s administration will not support the abuse of freedom anywhere to protect freedom elsewhere.
Ethiopians in Washington DC celebrate Obama’s election victory
Dukem Restaurant, November 5, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) — Much of Ethiopia is in the grip of a drought that is expected to drag on into next year, the United Nations’ humanitarian branch said Wednesday.
The outlook for agricultural crops in eastern Ethiopia remains grim, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in New York. A recent crop assessment by the international group found that at least six areas of eastern Ethiopia have experienced near total crop failure because of inadequate rainfall.
A U.N. assessment team this week began to determine the African nation’s emergency needs for the first half of 2009 as the wider Horn of Africa region endures the combined effects of drought and high food prices.
Last month, the U.N. humanitarian office appealed for $265 million to finance its relief operations across Ethiopia for the next three months to meet the widening crisis, which has left an estimated 6.4 million people dependent on food aid to survive.
