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African Union celebrates 50th year
African Union celebrates 50th year since founding, leaders to map out socio-economic gains ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African nations this week mark the 50th ...
Ethiopia: The Corruption Game
House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and ...
Africa:Land Grab a new concept invented to implement a neo-colonialism in African country
Any unequal relation has a capacity to generate oppression. As a result, it is possible to say that oppression is a concept that has a ...
Ethiopia:Why do Arabs regard the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam with “apprehension”?
By Ethiopiawi Introduction The Nile is God’s gift to Ethiopia. For this reason one cannot dispute Ethiopia’s ownership right over the Nile without defying the ...
Edu-corruption and Mis-education in Ethiopia
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela. For the late Meles Zenawi and his apostles ...
Africa is riskiest place to be born, report says
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates ...
The Audacity of Evil in Ethiopia
Alemayehu G Mariam Triumph of Evil? “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”, said Edmund Burke. But ...
Ethiopia: Right in Prison, Wrong on the Throne
Last April, I wrote a “Special Tribute to My Personal Hero Eskinder Nega”. In that tribute, I groped for words as I tried to describe ...
Africa: Stand with the Maasai
974,067 have signed. Let’s get to 1,000,000 Dear friends, We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. Yesterday, the ...
The Dragon Eating the Eagle’s Lunch in Africa?
Flight of the Eagle and pursuit of the Dragon In June 2011, during her visit to Zambia U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton pulled the ...
Africa :Obama “Moonwalking” Human Rights in Africa?
The great American poet Walt Whitman said, “Either define the moment or the moment will define you.” Will the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as president ...
Rwanda: One of the row-model in Africa
Rwanda: A Brief History of the Country Rwanda’s population of more than 7 million people is divided into three ethnic groups: the Hutu (who made ...
Western states walk diplomatic tight-rope over Kenyatta win
By Edmund Blair NAIROBI (Reuters) – Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in Kenya’s presidential vote presents Western states with the challenge of keeping an elected leader charged ...
Ethiopia: Rumors of Water War on the Nile?
Dam War of Words Late last month, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Sultan fired a shot across the bow from the Arab ...
Indicted abroad for crimes, Kenya’s new leaders pose diplomatic dilemma
Foreign governments must decide how to interact with Kenya’s newly elected president, Uhuru Kenyatta, because of his indictments at th e International Criminal Court in ...
Kenya final vote total: Kenyatta has 50.03 pct
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country’s presidential elections ...
Kenya: Ballot count begins; charge levied at UK
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Election officials in Kenya began transporting their ballot counts to be tallied in the capital Wednesday after the electronic vote counting ...
Kenya vote sees long lines; attacks kill 12
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Multiple attacks against security forces in Kenya on Monday killed at least 12 people as Kenyans waited in long lines to ...
Ethiopia: The prototype democratic state in the making
Conventional wisdom says that democracy has been a Holy Grail that generations of Africans have been pursuing. And yet, it is very difficult to tell with ...
Djibouti: Arresting senior officials are great signs of a government in real stress
Is Djibouti on the verge of collapsing? Following the arrests of influential moderate Imams in Djibouti the government has now turned its back on its ...
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