The lost champion of a ‘lost Jews’

April 17, 2012

 (JTA) — Avraham Adgah figuratively scratches his head, wondering what encouraged Jacques Faitlovitch to dedicate his life to a Beta Israel — a Jews of Ethiopia.

“That’s a doubt that occupies me,” Adgah, a polite operative during Israel’s Technion, says by write from his home in Kiryat Ata, nearby Haifa. “What led a 23-year-old white Jew from Poland to go to an underdeveloped nation and transport from place to place on donkeys — and when there were no donkeys, on foot? So we ask: What compelled him?”

Jacques Faitlovitch is shown with Ethiopian Jewish students shortly before his genocide in 1955. (photo credit: Tel Aviv University’s Sourasky Central Library)

Bill Gates vows to defeat hunger & diseases in Ethiopia: Could entrenched political interests allow him? — PART II BY KEFFYALEW GEBREMEDHIN

April 17, 2012

 Bill Gates puts his money where his mouth is

For a billionaire who has chosen a life of full time philanthropy, there could be no better indication of Bill Gates’ interests and honorable intensions than voluntarily staking his reputation in Ethiopia — the planet’s poorest country with the vast majority of its population teetering between half existence and death.

Human Rights Defenders,Csos Meet in Banjul Ahead of 51st African Commission …

April 17, 2012

 The African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS), on Saturday, strictly non-stop a NGO Forum that precedes a 51st Ordinary Session of a African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and a 25th African Human Right Book Fair. The NGO forum that commenced from 14th to 16th April, brought together Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society Organisations opposite a universe to brainstorm on issues concerning Human Rights in Africa.