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SOMALIA: Sheikh Aweys speaks out, says the country is colonized by Ethiopia
Mogadishu (RBC) The well known Islamist commander Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys who has defected from Al Shabab 11 months has released his fist audio message under the detention of Somali government saying the country in under the colony of AMISOM...
How China is taking over Africa
USA TODAY
Jacob Kushner
You’ve seen the headlines: China is taking over Africa, and the United States and Africa’s former colonizers in Europe have lost sway.
Mostly, it’s true. Throughout Angola, Ghana and the Congo,...
JOURNALISTS ARE NOT TERRORISTS!
PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 19 MAY 2014.
Reporters Without Borders has learnt today that the court in Addis Ababa granted the police investigating the case against the 6 bloggers and three journalists, 28 more days for further investigations. The...
Ethiopia: Human rights, repression, carrots and sticks
With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Ethiopia, the recent spate of harsh crackdowns in the country has raised serious questions about the U.S. and international community’s ongoing support for the Ethiopian government.
A few...
Nairobi terror attack leaves 12 dead (DAILY NATION)
The aftermath of twin blasts at the popular Gikomba market in Nairobi, where 12 people died and 78 others were injured on May 16, 2014. The attacks happened a day after the UK government started evacuating its citizens from Mombasa over insecurity....
Why ‘Made in Ethiopia’ Could Be The ‘Next Made in China’
By TOM GARA
China’s was once known as cheapest factory floor on the planet, but in the last two decades its economy has transitioned to become one of the world’s most advanced industrial powers. That means someone else needs to start...
Africa assumes onus on disaster relief with catastrophe insurance pool
Africa assumes onus on disaster relief with catastrophe insurance pool
By By Wendell Roelf
CAPE TOWN – In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped...