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Saleh Flees with Riches to Ethiopia

27/02/2012

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Presidents Saleh, Hussein, and Mubarak, Photo by John Trainth

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 18:52 PM EDT, 27 February 2012 SANAA, Yemen – Exiled Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh is rumored to have made plans to live in exile in Ethiopia. News sources have already published photos of the ousted president standing with the Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi. Saleh and his family, according to [...]

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Preteen Divorce in Yemen | Nujood Ali

04/03/2010

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Yemeni Women Protest Against Child Brides

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 17:33 PM EDT, 4 March 2010 UNITED STATES – Nujood Ali is a ten-year old Yemeni girl who secured a divorce from her husband, a man 20 years her senior who violently raped her soon after their marriage. She recounts in her memoir her father promising her to this man [...]

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Burned Alive: Somalis Refugees’ Flight to Yemen

09/01/2010

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Smuggler Ship in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen

France24 International News produced a report titled “Yemen, the new Eldorado?” This report illuminates the life of refugees who survive the dangerous crossing of the Gulf of Aden to reach Yemen. Those who survive the crossing are only welcomed if they are Somalian.  Under Yemeni law Somalis are granted rights of asylum, but Ethiopians if [...]

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Idan Raichel Project

18/12/2009

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Idan Raichel

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 01:46 AM EDT, 18 December 2009 ISRAEL – “The Idan Raichel Project is the self-titled debut album by Idan Raichel. Raichel composed and arranged many of the tracks, performs vocals and plays the keyboard, while collaborating with other vocalists and musicians. Hit singles include Boi (בואי / “Come”), Im Telech [...]

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