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Ethiopia - Minnesota man arrested in Internet sex sting

A 28-year-old man from Bloomington, Minnesota has been arrested in Internet sex sting operation after he traveled into Clinton County to meet a person he thought was under the age of 16. Instead, the man met a host of police. The man identified as Ananas Berhanu Getachew (of Ethiopia? ) is charged with one count of enticing away a minor, the The Quad City Times said.

Ethiopia - ESAT TV says its signals jammed for third time

Ethiopian Satellite Television said its signals have been jammed for the third time since it launched service in May 2010. In a statement posted on its website, ESAT said, "Our evidence on the source of the illegal signal interference points exclusively in the direction of the Ethiopian Government. Beginning on July 20, the satellite system carrying ESAT signals was bombarded by intense and sustained radio frequency interference disrupting a whole set of services provided by various public and private entities. The evidence gathered by ESAT shows that the Ethiopian Government in illegal collaboration with certain parties in the satellite business attempted to isolate and disrupt ESAT signals. Appartently, that effort backfired and knocked off the broadcast signals of the Ethiopian Government along with a number of other international satellite service providers. The Ethiopian Government by attempting to knock out ESAT ended up knocking itself off the air."

The station said it will take the appropriate legal and technological solutions to overcome inteference directed at its signals.

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Kenya, Ethiopia showdown looms at the Africa championships

Source: KBC

Kenya and Ethiopia are set to renew their legendary rivalry during the 17th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships that got underway on Wednesday at the Nyayo National stadium.

Over the years, the two East African neighbours have dominated long distance running globally in a show of rivalry akin to that of Jamaica and America in the sprints.

In fact it is whispered that the two nations contributed highly to the diminished interest among nations in the World Cross Country Championships that they dominated like the proverbial colossus and which has since assumed biennial status.

The women's 10,000-meter race is a must-watch event that will pit Olympic Champion Tirunesh Dibaba against World Champion Linet Masai.

Masai won the event in Berlin in the absence of the Ethiopian running machine who skipped the championships due to an injury.

The 5,000m women's race will also be a crowd puller that will pit the Kenyan trio led by world champion Vivian Cheruiyot against Dibaba, who will double, and former world champion Meseret Defar.

These two events will have the making of World or Olympic Championship clashes as it is the same runners who race against each other in the finals of the international events.

In the absence of Olympic and World Champion Kenenisa Bekele, the men's 5,000m will be a clash between the battle-hardened former world champion Eliud Kipchoge against Kenenisa's younger brother Tariku Bekele.

Ethiopia's population projected to reach 174 mil by 2050

A report by the Population Reference Bureau says, Ethiopia's population will reach 174 million by 2050 to become the 9th largest country in the world. Ethiopia's current population is estimated at 85 million, second most populous country in Africa.

Even though Ethiopia and Germany have almost the same population size today, Ethiopia is projected to more than double its population from 85 million today to 174 million in 2050. Germany's population will likely decline from 82 million to 72 million over that same time. The cause of these enormous differences is lifetime births per woman. Ethiopia's total fertility rate of 5.4 is four times greater than Germany's rate of 1.3.

Ethiopia - 9-year old boy fell to his death from the 28th storey of a Calgary highrise

When Luleseged Bete left for work Tuesday morning, his son, Sami, was asleep.

With no way of knowing hours later his only child would fall to his death from a 28th floor balcony of his family’s Beltline apartment suite, he let him be.

But the big-hearted nine-year-old, true to his loving nature, ensured Luleseged got the chance to tell his boy he loved him one last time — with Sami, not long before the deadly tragedy unfolded, phoning to share the father-son exchange denied by morning slumber.

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Fall victim's family speaks about the tragedy

A Calgary family devastated after their only child plunged to his death shared their memories of him with CTV News a day after the tragedy.

Nine-year-old Samule Bete died Tuesday when he fell 28 storeys from the Residences of Bromley Square apartment building in the Beltline.

His mother, Chuchu Whiwot, says Samule was on the deck reading a book. She thinks the accident happened when the boy leaned over the railing, trying to follow the direction of her voice.

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