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Asfa-Wossen Asserate (born October 31, 1948 in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia), is a management consultant and an author writing in German. He is a grandnephew of the last Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and a son of the former governor and viceroy of Eritrea, Li'ul Ras Asserate Kasa (Asserate-Maryam Kasa).

Lij ('prince') Asfa-Wossen went to a German school in Addis Abeba, before studying law, economics and history in Tübingen and Cambridge. In 1978, he earned a PhD in Ethiopian history in Frankfurt am Main. In 1974 a Communist revolution in Ethiopia made impossible his return to his homeland: his father and sixty other dignitaries of the Haile Selassie regime were executed without a trial. The Asserate family was held under house arrest for years without knowing when and if they would be released. Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate who learned of the fate of his father over the radio has been living in Germany ever since and became a German national in 1981.

Since 1983, he has been working as a management consultant and author. He dedicated much of his energies campaigning against the Communist dictatorship in Ethiopia, and above all, he pulled all diplomatic strings to help his incarcerated family. After the fall of the Communist Mengistu regime in 1991 he has been striving to improve the foreign trade relations of his native country. Furthermore, he has been committed to human rights. In 1994 he founded „Orbis Aethiopicus“, a society that holds scientific congresses with a focus on Ethiopian culture, history and other matters.

BURJI ETHIOPIA, As Muslim NGOS denied permit in Ethiopia Christian organizations are wandering within country, their sustainable effort to convert Ethiopian Muslims to Christianity is extensive. The issue is not to blame the unfortunate Ethiopian Muslims or the missionaries but how Muslim organizations will get permit to help their own brethren? What is our role to avert the situation? Please find the link and evaluate the circumstances...

 Are we able to do a bit? Even the slices from a bit task, May Allah (swt) help us all. Kindly call Radio Bilal and leave your message on the subject, we will be delighted to broadcast your concern to the voiceless Ethiopian Muslims.

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(CBS)   Videotapes showing poor orphans from third world countries melt the hearts of prospective parents every day in this country.

Three children, sisters from Ethiopia are shown in a video - ages, you are told, 7, 4 and 6. Their mother is dead, their father dying of AIDS. A life of prostitution is all but assured - if not adopted - saved - by a loving American family. It was just such a pitch that spoke to Katie and Calvin Bradshaw, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian. They adopted all three girls through a U.S. agency, Christian World Adoption.

"Aside from the gender of the children, everything else proved to be a complete lie," said Katie. While their mother was dead, their father was healthy and very much alive. He was living, by local standards, a middle-class life - an extended family able to take care of the girls as middle sister Meya showed us first hand.

"My godmothers, my aunt, those are my mom's friends, my uncles, my dad, my dad's friends, that's my brother," she said. Read full story