”Ayzoh Eskinder! Ayzoh!” – Martin Schibbye’s acceptance speech on behalf of...

Acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, Torino, Italy, 9 June 2014. Ladies and gentlemen – members...

Who is afraid of the E(thiopian) bloggers? (Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam)

The “dean” of independent Ethiopian journalists and blogger extraordinaire, Eskinder Nega, is serving an 18 year sentence for blogging. The late Meles Zenawi personally...

Coca-Cola Issues Statement Regarding Teddy Afro’s Version of FIFA World Cup...

By Tadias Magazine June 7th, 2014 New York — The Coca-Cola Company, headquartered in Atlanta, responded to queries regarding the unreleased, Ethiopian version of Coke’s...

62 African migrants, crew drown off Yemen: UN

  Geneva (AFP) - Sixty migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy...

Coca-Cola under fire for dropping Teddy Afro’s World Cup Anthem (EMF)

By staff writer – 4 June 2014 (EMF) A large number of Diaspora community is urging East African nations to stop drinking Coca-Cola, in protest...

Press Release from Teddy Afro On the Ethiopian Version of the...

Teddyafro.info Ethiopian Version of the World Cup Anthem Over the past months, we have been under intense pressures with flooding requests to reveal our positions regarding...

DOZENS OF MIGRANTS BODIES FOUND ALONG YEMEN SHORES- (AP)

By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official and witnesses say the bodies of dozens of illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and...

Light at the end of the tunnel for the “Dark Continent”?...

(Author’s note: This commentary appeared on  Pambazuka.org  on May 29, 2014 as part of a mid-century outlook on possible scenarios in Africa. I make my...

Yemeni People Traffickers Prey on Ethiopia Migrants Seeking Work – Bloomberg

By William Davison  Jun 1, 2014  Sintayehu Beyene left Ethiopia planning to earn money to begin a carpentry business -- he ended up captive in Yemen where Kalashnikov-wielding...