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Robert Mugabe takes over as African Union chairman

African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa have chosen the continent's oldest head of state, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, as AU chairman for the coming year.

Mr Mugabe, who is 90, drew applause when he denounced colonialism.

He also spoke of the "scourge of terrorism" from Boko Haram and said there needed to be "lasting solutions" to the issue in Nigeria and Cameroon.

Earlier, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned of the dangers of leaders clinging to power.

Mr Mugabe has led his country since independence in 1980.

He is subject to travel bans imposed by the US and the EU because of political violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe.
'Not totally free'

Within Africa he is a divisive figure, with some seeing him as a nationalist hero and others as a despot responsible for gross human rights abuses.




Western diplomatic sources said his election to the mostly ceremonial post of AU chairman was unlikely to have much impact on relations.

In his address to leaders, Mr Mugabe spoke of the need to take advantage of Africa's mineral wealth and agricultural potential, and guard against exploitation by foreigners.

He said African countries wanted relationships with "friends", but "colonialists and imperialists" had no place in the continent.

Later, he received applause when he referred to the long-running territorial dispute in Western Sahara between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front.

"As long as our brothers in Western Sahara are under Moroccan occupation we are not totally free," he said.

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እስከ ዛሬ ሜዳ ላይ የወደቀው ሃብት ገዢ አገኘ ለሁሉም እርስዎም የዚህ ሃብት ባለቤት ስለሆኑ በአመት ከ$13,000 ያገኛሉ።

You can donate blood, plasma, eggs, and sperm. Why not poop? Yes, your feces are perhaps your greatest untapped monetary resource. Thanks to a nonprofit organization called OpenBiome, you can cash in to the tune of $13,000 a year -- and save lives while you're at it.
Since 2013, OpenBiome has been processing and shipping loads of it all over the country. The frozen stool is administered to patients who are very sick with infections of a bacteria called C. difficile. The bacteria can cause extreme gastrointestinal distress, leaving some sufferers housebound. Antibiotics often help, but sometimes the bacteria rears back as soon as treatment stops. That leads to a miserable, continuous course of antibiotics.
By introducing healthy fecal matter into the gut of a patient (by way of endoscopy, nasal tubes, or swallowed capsules) doctors can abolish C. difficile for good. Finding a donor is tough business, and some patients grow so desperate that they treat themselves with fecal matter from friends and family. That's what happened to a friend of OpenBiome's founders, inspiring them to open up the first nationwide bank. So far they've shipped about 2,000 treatments to 185 hospitals around the country.

And yes, they pay for healthy poop: $40 a sample, with a $50 bonus if you come in five days a week. That's $250 for a week of donations, or $13,000 a year.

Save your stools, save the world. (OpenBiome)

There's a catch: You don't just have to be healthy. You have to be really healthy. OpenBiome's donation procedure may be as easy as your standard bowel movement, but the selection process makes giving blood look like a walk in the park.
"It's harder to become a donor than it is to get into MIT," joked co-founder Mark Smith (who would know, as he got his PhD in microbiology there). Of the 1,000 or so potential donors who've expressed interest on his Web site over the past two years, only about 4 percent have passed the extensive medical questioning and stool testing.
The screening process can cost up to $5,000 -- so when someone makes it through, Smith and his co-founders hold on tight.
"We get most of our donors to come in three or four times a week, which is pretty awesome," Smith said. "You're usually helping three or four patients out with each sample, and we keep track of that and let you know."

The precious poo awaits its destiny at -80 celsius. (OpenBiome)

Fellow co-founder Carolyn Edelstein agrees that the donors are usually in it for more than the money.
"Everyone thinks it's great that they're making money doing such an easy thing," Edelstein said, "But they also love to hear us say, 'Look, your poop just helped this lady who's been sick for nine years go to her daughter's graduation.'"
Who are these valiant donors, these chosen few? Since they have to come into the Medford, Mass. office, lots of them are Tufts University students. And plenty are recruited from the gym next door.
"It's great to have a healthy contingent of regular gym goers right there," Smith said.

OpenBiome has sent out more than 2,000 transplant specimens. (OpenBiome)

For now fecal matter transplants really only have one use: treating recurring C. difficile. But OpenBiome is providing its samples to a number of trials exploring other uses.
Scientists know that the gut microbiomes of people with obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, and even autism are different from those without. But just because there are gut flora associated with these conditions doesn't mean that getting rid of them can get rid of their symptoms, and it certainly isn't a given that fecal transplants will be the miracle solution they are for  C. difficile.
"There's a lot of promise in other conditions," Smith said, "But also a lot of hype. Treating C. difficile is a bit less sexy, but that's the one area where we know this works." However, he's excited to see where the "crazy frontier" of microbiome engineering will take us.
And in the meantime, Smith is always happy to find more potential donors.
"I never thought that after getting my PhD I'd start mailing poop around," he said, "But here I am."
h/t Free Enterprise

South Africans should be the last people on earth to rise hands on Ethiopians (Share!)

Ethiopia and Ethiopians love South Africa and South African people. It is a true genuine feeling where you can ask any Ethiopian (more than 90 million of us) and  they will tell you in one voice about their feeling for the country and the people.  When South Africa was during the ugly apartheid era, Ethiopia and Ethiopians took the issue too personal felt the pain as their own. As Ethiopia is a symbol of freedom for the whole world, the issue of South Africa was something all Ethiopians opposed in every stage.  For example take for my case,  my visa when it was issued several years ago it was valid Except South Africa because my Ethiopia want her people to protest apartheid and we will not travel where the country who does not give equal access for its people. This was back then, it was history, it was before the eradication on apartheid. We are happy and joyful.

When the South African freedom fighters went prison, killed in freedom fighting, abused and neglected by apartheid we  Ethiopians were feeling their pain, suffering and agony. Ethiopia tried her best to bring the issue of apartheid  to the global stage in ample occasions . Ethiopians  such as King Haile Sillasse I and the father of Confederation  African Football Mr. Yedinekachew Tessema did their best to stop apartheid. The South African apartheid government was banned from AU and CAF . That did not happened by accident  or over night but it was a result of fight for end of apartheid and  because true and genuine love for of the people of South African people.

Even the father of South Africa,  Nilson Mandel said it. Yes, Ethiopia was a free county  who is also fighting for the freedom of other Africans. Yes! Our father Mandel was in Ethiopia to be trained to fight apartheid . Yes he was our ROYAL guest.

Now thank you God South Africa is free and our South African brothers and sisters are free. I know always there are bad apples in the whole crowd. Those bad apples should not deter our love for South Africa and South African people. Remember there could be few thousands of Ethiopians in South Africa but there are  more than 90+ millions Ethiopian all over the world who love South Africa as their own. Take a note here, those 90+ millions Ethiopians   never been in South Africa and will not be in South Africa but we love you all it is not because you have gold or diamond but because you are one of us. We love you when you did not have any thing, that means we are genuine.  

We think South Africa's progress and success as our own. We love you and love us back. South Africans should be the last people on earth to rise their hands on Ethiopians, that will be awkward.
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Johannesburg -
Three foreign nationals were shot and injured and a fourth was assaulted in their shop in Nsuze near Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.
“On Thursday night, 29 January 2015 at about 7.30pm four Ethiopians were in their shop at Bhamshela area at Nsuze when they were attacked by four armed suspects,” said Major Thulani Zwane in a statement.
“Three of the foreigners were shot and wounded and the fourth was badly assaulted by the suspects.”
The attackers fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
The injured victims were taken to hospital.
A case of attempted murder and business robbery had been opened.
Provincial commissioner Lt-Gen Mmamonnye Ngobeni appealed to people to approach police with information about the suspects, he said.
Last week violence, labelled by some as xenophobic, and looting of foreign-owned shops spread from Soweto to Kagiso on the West Rand, Sebokeng in the Vaal, Eden Park in Ekurhuleni and Alexandra, north of Johannesburg.
This was allegedly sparked by the shooting of 14-year-old Siphiwe Mahori in Snake Park, Soweto, last Monday.
Mahori was allegedly part of a group trying to rob a Somalian's shop.
Somali national Alodixashi Sheik Yusuf has appeared in court charged with Mahori's shooting. He will return to court on February 4.
At least nine people have been killed following the shooting of Mahori.
Over 180 other people have been arrested in connection with public violence and possession of stolen property. - Sapa

Dreamline your way from Addis to LA

Lights, camera, action – Irish people will soon be able to fly direct to LA thanks to a new arrival on the Irish aviation market, Ethiopian Airlines, writes Catherine Halloran.

The African carrier – which catered for over six million passengers last year – will launch its new Addis Ababa–Dublin–LA flight on June 20 next.

The flight will be the only direct flight connecting Ireland to sub-Saharan Africa and the only direct flight connecting Ireland to Los Angeles.

And not only will you be able to fly direct to LA or Addis Ababa from Dublin, you will also be able to do it in style in the state-of-the-art 787 Dreamliner aircraft.