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East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said.

AFP/Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, said yesterday their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

Bob Geldof has challenged the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were diverted to pay for weapons.

Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

Three sisters from Ethiopia were reunited in Moncton, N.B., on Monday after a three-year-long effort by a couple from Bouctouche.

The prime minister of Ethiopia has stepped into the row between Sir Bob Geldof and the BBC which has claimed that 95 per cent of the $100m aid raised, by Live Aid and others, to fight famine in rebel-held northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted to be spent on weapons.

Bob Geldof and charities deny aid was spent on weapons but corporation executives say reports are credible The BBC is standing by a report that 95% of the $100m aid raised to fight famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels and spent on weapons, despite denials by Bob Geldof and leading charities. A programme broadcast last week by the BBC World Service's Africa editor, Martin ...

If democracy is a government of the people, kleptocracy is a government of thieves. Last week the secret world of Meles Zenawi's kleptocracy, famine aid-sharking...

Band Aid founder Bob Geldof yesterday disputed claims by the BBC that millions of dollars raised for famine relief in Ethiopia was siphoned off by rebels to buy arms.

London - Band Aid founder Bob Geldof disputed claims by the BBC on Sunday that millions of dollars raised for famine relief in Ethiopia was siphoned off by rebels to buy arms. The musician, who led the relief effort in the mid-1980s, called the claim...