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Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu was given £500 to 'stop him disrupting flight to avoid deportation'

Hadush Kebatu was deported on Tuesday evening after being arrested following a huge manhunt when he was wrongly freed from prison

Evening Standard

Migrant sex offender deported after being mistakenly released from prison

Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

The Independent UK

Ronnie Sim obituary

Other lives: Former teacher who helped translate the Bible into various African languages

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Search for asylum seeker mistakenly released from prison enters third day

The Metropolitan Police has revealed the last sighting of Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was in Hackney, London, on Friday.

Evening Standard

Manhunt continues to find migrant sex offender freed from prison by mistake

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday instead of being transferred to an immigration detention centre

Evening Standard

Asylum seeker tried to return to prison ‘several times’ after release in error

Police said Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu is carrying a ‘distinctive white bag with pictures of avocados on it’.

Evening Standard

Cancer drug quality in Africa is a worry: what we found in a 4-country study

The number of people receiving treatment for cancer has risen dramatically in the last decade in many African countries. For example, 10 years ago in Ethiopia and Kenya, cancer care was available to only a few thousand patients per year in a few hospitals. Today, over 75,000 people receive cancer…

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40 Stunning Portraits Of Kids Living Their Lives Across The Globe

Andrea Torrei is an Italian photographer known for capturing people and their everyday lives around the world. Her work shows the beauty, emotion, and stories found in different cultures, always with a sensitive and thoughtful eye.

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Pair of 'holy' islands in eerily green African lake hold centuries-old relics and mummified emperors — Earth from space

A 2017 astronaut photo shows the islands of Dek and Daga lurking in the murky, algae-infested waters of Ethiopia's Lake Tana. Both islands are home to important monasteries, including the resting place of five mummified emperors.

LiveScience

Ethiopia's Weavers Struggle To Keep Garment Tradition Alive

Behind the looms of a workshop in the heart of Addis Ababa, dozens of weavers deftly repeat the same motions to craft traditional dresses -- a centuries-old skill now threatened by Ethiopia's economic hardships.

International Business Times

Meet the woman who cares for hundreds of stray dogs abandoned on the streets

Feven Melese, 29, is offering strays a lifeline in the capital city of Ethiopia

The Independent UK

Ethiopia has struggled to build national unity: can its big new dam deliver it?

The formal launch of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in September 2025 made news across the world. There was pomp and ceremony as Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam was officially inaugurated after 14 years and US$5 billion worth of project work.

The Conversation

Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Africa’s Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometre-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the trees to extend for 6,000 kilometres through 11 countries in the Sahel, restoring 100 million hectares…

The Conversation

African countries gear up for major push on climate innovation, climate financing and climate change laws

The Second Africa Climate Summit, held in Ethiopia in September 2025, drew more than 25,000 people – from presidents and ministers to farmers, activists, business leaders and students. They came to talk about how Africa can source finance to grow in greener ways and cope with worsening climate disasters. Africa…

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The Independent UK

Thousands gather for Ethiopia's thanksgiving festival

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival

The Independent UK

A collapse at a church under construction in Ethiopia kills at least 25 worshippers

Authorities in Ethiopia say that scaffolding supporting a church under construction in the Amhara region has collapsed, killing at least 25 people and injuring scores of others

The Independent UK

Sudan warns residents over rising waters and flood risk in provinces near the Nile River

Sudan has issued what it describes as a “red alert” warning of potential floods in five provinces along the Nile River, citing rising water levels in its two main tributaries, the Blue and White Nile

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'She could win the Tour de France one day' - Tsige Kahsay Kiros animates junior women's road race in hunt for rainbow jersey at Rwanda Worlds

Ethiopian talent discovered by mechanic and developed through the World Cycling Centre cracks the top 10 in Kigali

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Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples

President Donald Trump chided the United Nations on Sept. 23, 2025, for failing to resolve dangerous international conflicts around the world. “All they seem to do,” he groused during his address to the General Assembly in New York, “is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that…

The Independent UK

Stockholm Marathon winner Shewarge Alene dies aged 30

Ethiopian runner Alene was taken ill during a training session and later died in hospital

Euronews

Somalia says no to Egyptian and Ethiopian peacekeepers clashing on its soil

There will be no "proxy war" between Egypt and Ethiopia on Somali soil, according to the country's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

The Conversation

Ethiopia’s two bids at democracy have failed: what it will take to succeed

Ethiopia has attempted to transition to democracy twice. First in 1991, when a new government overthrew a dictatorial military regime. Second in 2018, when Abiy Ahmed took over as prime minister after protests against a repressive government.

TechRadar

"Great Firewall in a Box" – How a massive data leak unveiled China's censorship export model

A 500 GB breach uncovers how China is selling its ready-made internet-blocking kits to Pakistan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan regimes.

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Three Ethiopian immigrants dead in Ohio — authorities say ‘romantic interest’ played a big role

One victim warned authorities before the incident occurred.

International Business Times UK

Doping Outrage: Erriyon Knighton and Diribe Welteji Axed – Is Anyone in World Athletics Clean Anymore?

US sprinter Erriyon Knighton and Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji ruled out of the Tokyo World Athletics Championships amid major doping controversy.

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