Ethiopian workers in Lebanon

"A crowd of Ethiopians gathered outside the Ethiopian Consulate in Badaro Sunday afternoon to protest its neglect of their community in Lebanon.  Following a Sunday church service nearby, a few dozen women and one man walked to the consulate and demonstrated outside.  The assembled expressed their frustration with consular officials' perceived callousness, saying that when Ethiopians contact their consulate in Lebanon via telephone they are often ignored or hung up on.  "We are living here," said a woman named Berti, adding that "the [consulate] should help us, but they only want money.""