AN IRISH priest who helps some of Ethiopia's most vulnerable children says they are often seen as a "curse". Irish Vincentian Priest, Fr Stephen Monaghan from Co Dublin, told Independent.ie that children who are deaf in Ethiopia are treated as "cursed" and are shunned by society. Fr Stephen, who previously served as a Chaplain at St Patrick's College and worked with the deaf community in Ireland for years, started a school for the deaf in the rural village of Ambo, Ethiopia. "We started with a kindergarten school in Ambo and soon I saw a need for a school for deaf children. There was one young boy named Wandamagen who was deaf and he had no opportunity for an education in the area. “Deaf students have many problems when it comes to education. Parents associate being deaf as a negative thing. They have the attitude sometimes that a deaf child is a cursed child and they hide the child away. This means that the child isn’t included in society and doesn’t get an education," Fr Stephen told Independent.ie. Along with the parish priest in the area, Fr Asfaw Felek, Fr Stephen is responsible for the running of the school, which now has 62 students.

An Irish priest who helps some of Ethiopia's most vulnerable children says they are often seen as a curse. Vincentian priest Fr Stephen Monaghan, from Co Dublin, told the Irish Independent that deaf children in Ethiopia are treated as "cursed" and are shunned by society. Fr Stephen, who previously served as a chaplain at St Patrick's College and worked with the deaf community in Ireland for years, started a school for the deaf in the rural village of Ambo. "We started with a kindergarten school in Ambo and soon I saw a need for a school for deaf children," Fr Stephen said. "There was one young boy named Wandamagen who was deaf and he had no opportunity for an education in the area. "Deaf students have many problems when it comes to education. Parents associate being deaf as a negative thing. They have the attitude sometimes that a deaf child is a cursed child and they hide the child away. This means that the child isn't included in society and doesn't get an education." Along with the parish priest in the area, Fr Asfaw Felek, Fr Stephen is responsible for the running of the deaf school, which now has 62 students.

The faces behind the Yellow Movement: How Ethiopia’s young women are vowing to change culture of sexual harassment, rape and domestic violence Catherine Devine in Ethiopia The young, educated and empowered women of Ethiopia have vowed to make a change to their country’s culture of sexual harassment, rape and domestic violence. A group of young activists, who are among the few privileged women to graduate from university in Ethiopia and abroad, have set up a movement in the bid to empower women. The Yellow Movement based in Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa gives women a voice and shines a light on the shocking examples of abuse suffered by women. For the first time in Ethiopia, the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) included Domestic Violence as one of its indicators. Based on the government’s survey, 35 per cent of all married women have experienced sexual, emotional or physical violence from their husband or partner at some time. In 2015, a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl called Tejnesh Leweg’neh was abducted by three men. When she refused to marry one of them they pushed her off a cliff and she was left paralysed. That same month, 16-year-old Hanna Lalango, from Addis Ababa, was abducted by a group of men from a minibus on the outskirts of Addis. She was raped over several days and died in hospital about a month later from her injuries. These shocking stories, among others inspired the Yellow Movement to act. One of the co-founders, a law lecturer at Addis Ababa University, Hilina Berhanu, said that women are subjected to sexual harassment and gender abuse in Ethiopia on a daily basis. Hilina (25) from Addis Ababa said that even women with high societal positions suffer from sexual abuse every day. “Ironically, I was at a university meeting about gender equality and empowerment when my colleague, who is a government official, put his hand down the back of my dress,” Hilina told Independent.ie. “I couldn’t believe it. I told myself I was just imagining it but then he slipped his fingers down to my underwear. I was so shocked that I just got up and left. “I am quite a small woman, and quite childlike, so men act very sexual towards me. Even though I am privileged and have a good position in society, I am still subjected to this abuse.” Hilina decided to sue her colleague, becoming the first ever woman academic to sue another staff member at Addis Ababa University. “I was very ashamed but as a law professor and a female activist I am always encouraging my students to take action against this kind of abuse. If I didn’t stand up for myself, how could I expect people who are less privileged than me to do so?” The law professor launched a complaint against her colleague to the university. “They said I needed evidence and I asked other people who were at the meeting when I was abused to testify. Most refused and one man even testified against me saying that I made it up. The man who abused me had a high position in the university and so he was very powerful. Nobody wanted to testify against him and face losing their jobs.” Hilina, knowing that she needed solid evidence, went to her colleague’s office and put her phone on record. “I wanted to catch him admitting he had abused me or if he did anything again I would have it recorded. My friend waited outside the door and I told him to come in if he didn’t hear anything after 10 minutes. “My colleague didn’t suspect a thing and figured I was there to get more of what he did the last time. So dismissing our agenda for meeting, he started touching me asking ‘show me where I touched you?’ He starting pushing me around and pushed me onto his sofa, grabbing me by the back. I immediately paged my friend and he knocked on the door as if he was waiting for us to finish. I hate to think what would have happened if my friend wasn’t there .” Hilina used the recording as evidence and more charges were brought against her colleague. However, the university disciplinary committee repeatedly refused to act on the case through consistent delays. “After four months of waiting for a disciplinary decision, I went to the minister of education and begged for help. “In the four months, my reputation was ruined on campus. People said that I was making it up because I was looking for a promotion or that I was begging for it by the way I dressed. Typical victim blaming. I was terrified that my career was over.” The minister of education acted upon hearing the story and forced Addis Ababa University to discipline the man in question. “The university said that because he was a good citizen they couldn’t fire him but they moved him down a rank in the university. He now has a smaller office and a smaller on-site house. That is all the discipline he got,” Hilina said. “A top university official told me that they didn’t want to act as such but that the ministerial level shaming called for an immediate action. He said that the university didn’t want to make a ruling because I was not married and therefore not trustworthy. He also said that he thinks that my colleague suffered more than I did and that if they knew I was going to make it so public, they would have made my colleague apologise in the first place – a route preferred by God and elders of the university community.” Hilina, who is an activist and part of the Yellow Movement organisation for women’s rights, said that the whole experience was “terrifying” and “exhausting”. “Women face this kind of harassment every day and no class group is exempt. It’s because of these experiences that we have movements like the Yellow Movement and Setaweet to help empower women here in Ethiopia.” Yellow Movement activists Aklile Solomon (25) and Selam Mussie (27) met with Independent.ie to share their experiences of harassment in education in Ethiopia. “We started the Yellow Movement because terrible things were happening to women every day and nobody was giving them a voice. We came together as a group of young women and said ‘what can we do?’ We decided to set up the movement to remember these women and to empower other women to speak up,” co-founder Aklile Solomon told Independent.ie. https://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/the-faces-behind-the-yellow-movement-how-ethiopias-young-women-are-vowing-to-change-culture-of-sexual-harassment-rape-and-domestic-violence-36380993.html

Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro delights fans, irks authorities Tedy Afro says he hopes to perform some day in Ethopia's bitter foe, Eritrea He may be Ethiopia's biggest pop star but Teddy Afro hasn't held a concert in his country for years, some of his songs have been effectively banned, and the launch party for his last album was broken up by the police. But sitting in the living room of his spacious house outside the capital, Addis Ababa, the 41-year-old musician is relaxed and says he is focused on promoting peace and unity in Ethiopia. "As a child, I remember that we lived as one nation. We knew a nation that is called Ethiopia," Teddy said. "But nowadays, we are identified and called by our ethnic background. And this has already become dangerous." Ethiopia has been rocked by widespread anti-government protests over the last two years, killing hundreds and leading to a 10-month state of emergency that was only lifted in August. In this context, Teddy's latest album, "Ethiopia", was released in May and shot to the top of Billboard's world music chart -- despite his songs not being played on state radio and TV. His lyrics and music videos have often been controversial, and viewed by many as critical of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a formerly Marxist guerrilla movement that has ruled the country since 1991. While fans adore Teddy's catchy melodies and nationalistic, often historical songs, written mostly in the national language Amharic, the authorities -- who brook no opposition -- view him with suspicion. - Protest anthem - Teddy -- real name Tewodros Kassahun -- first crossed the authorities in 2005 when his album "Yasteseryal" came out days before an election that descended into violence after the opposition denounced it as rigged. Teddy's single "Jah Yasteseryal" about the country's last emperor has become a protest anthem +4 Teddy's single "Jah Yasteseryal" about the country's last emperor has become a protest anthem That album was a homage to the country's final emperor from 1930 to 1974, Haile Selassie I, and its lead single "Jah Yasteseryal", questioning whether the government was improving the country, became a protest anthem. In 2008, the musician was jailed for more than a year over an alleged hit-and-run killing in a case that many fans believe was politically motivated. He has always protested his innocence, saying he was not even in the country at the time of the accident. While Teddy's songs can today be heard blasting from bars and buses across Addis Ababa, Ethiopians still fear playing "Jah Yasteseryal" in public, lest they be seen as agitating against the government. In 2012, Teddy released "Tikur Sew", an album that took as its theme Emperor Menelik II, whose victory over 19th century Italian colonial invaders is a defining moment in Ethiopian history. Yet among the country's largest ethnic group the Oromos, "Tikur Sew" was seen as an affront because it glorified an emperor who brutally absorbed Oromo territory into Ethiopia's borders. The backlash was fierce enough that Heineken -- whose beers are popular among Oromos -- backed out of a deal to sponsor Teddy's concerts. But Teddy says he is unbowed. "There may be groups that have a negative attitude towards the last Ethiopian kings and history," he said, sat with a sword belonging to Menelik mounted on a wall nearby. "While respecting their views as a perspective, the fact that they like or dislike my views will not change the truth.".... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5216915/Ethiopian-pop-star-Teddy-Afro-delights-fans-irks-authorities.html

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