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Financing for (Under) development in Africa? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
How the West underdeveloped Africa and is now trying to “finance develop” it
The “Third International Conference on Financing for Development” was held in Addis Ababa last week. It was billed as a “gathering of high-level political...
Ethiopian opposition leader, Berhanu Nega, ‘moves armed operation to Eritrea’ [Martin Plaut ]
There are two reports from reliable media that Berhanu Nega, the head of the opposition movement, Ginbot 7, has transferred his operation to Eritrea.
The movement is also said to have decided to launch a military campaign against Ethiopia.
Berhanu...
To this Ethiopian American singer, 'home is always in flux' [By Monica Campbell ]
PRI’s The World
Like a lot of immigrants in the United States, Meklit Hadero’s family arrived to a place unknown, with a single connection drawing them. For Hadero, that place was Iowa, where her dad knew a professor
It was the...
Cut U.S. aid to Ethiopia's despotic government: [Ali Mohamed]
Cleveland
President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa this month includes a stop in Ethiopia, the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the Horn of Africa nation.
In late May, Ethiopian voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament....
Ethiopia Claims U.S. Precedent for Crackdown on Journalists [HRW]
Barack Obama is headed to Ethiopia. Will he speak up for the journalists and activists locked up by Washington’s “war on terror” ally?
By Laetitia Bader
Researcher, Africa Division
Early on July 9, guards in Kaliti prison...
DIBABA, AMAN AND KEJELCHA AMONG ETHIOPIA'S MEDAL HOPES FOR BEIJING
IAAF
World 1500m record-holder Genzebe Dibaba, world 800m champion Mohammed Aman and prodigious teenager Yomif Kejelcha are among the main names and medal hopes in the Ethiopian squad for the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015, which will...
The Washington Post: Obama’s trip to Ethiopia alarms some human rights activists
By Juliet Eilperin and David Nakamura
President Obama embarks on a trip to Africa this week that includes a controversial stop in Ethiopia, where the authoritarian government has come under sharp international criticism for its handling of political...