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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...
S. Sudan wants US, UN to verify who is attacking
By TOM ODULA
NAIROBI, Kenya South Sudan Thursday asked the United States and the United Nations not to slap warring parties in the country’s conflict with sanctions for violating a peace deal without verification from independent...
FreeZone9Bloggers Tweetathon held for imprisoned Ethiopian bloggers
International blogging, translation and advocacy group Global Voices has hosted an African Tweetathon, calling for the release of nine journalists and bloggers currently detained in Ethiopia.
Nine Ethiopian men and women part of the “Zone...
Exiled Ethiopian Journalists in Nairobi Tell Their Struggle
By Abdi Latif Dahir NAIROBI, Kenya – Mastewal Birhanu thinks about the day he fled the city of his childhood. Even though he had made his mind to leave Ethiopia for Kenya, the thought of questioning and imprisonment at the airport agitated...
Women in Ethiopia struggle to survive without water
(MSNBC) By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon
In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls.
“Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother...
6.5 million Ethiopians needs food assistance
(Reuters)- The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall.
“We are concerned because there is the...