2011

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge reacted skeptically Tuesday to the Obama administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit by an American citizen who says he was held in Africa for four months and allegedly interrogated more than 30 times by U.S. officials. At a two-hour hearing in Washington, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan […]

The Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, called on the Eritrean regime to immediately desist from its destabilizing activities in the Horn of Africa and calls on the African Union and the U.N Security Council to fully implement the existing sanctions and impose additional sanctions on the regime. In a strongly

Nairobi. Oxfam has launched its largest ever appeal in Africa in response to a massive food crisis facing over 12 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The agency needs about $80 million to reach 3 million people in dire need of clean water, food and basic sanitation. “The aid effort faces enormous hurdles. There

By Eskinder Nega Entrapment is often a controversial but yet an established component of law enforcement even in democracies. But true to form the controversy is wholly absent in authoritarian countries. Entrapment is embraced with spiteful fervor. It is an elemental attribute of tyranny. But more often than not it is the gullibly innocent rather

GENEVA — Two people were killed and dozens injured when a riot broke out at Africa’s biggest refugee camp this week, a sign the influx of Somalis to neighboring Kenya is straining resources and nerves at the city-sized site known as Dadaab, the United Nations said Friday. The U.N. refugee agency said the “serious disturbance”

Ethiopian lawmakers will vote next week on a proposed 39 percent increase in spending to fund infrastructure programs and projects aimed at improving food security, a Finance Ministry official said. Expenditure will rise to 117.8 billion Ethiopian birr ($6.9 billion) in the fiscal year to July 7, 2012, while revenue and foreign grants are forecast

(Mail) Ethiopia plans to sell power to Sudan, Yemen, Kenya and even Egypt, with whom it is at odds over the Nile’s waters, as it ramps up power production to become a major exporter in the continent, its utility said. It aims to produce 20,000 megawatts (MW) of power within the next 10 years, part

By Messay Kebede This is not a response to the numerous reactions generated by my previous article titled “Meles’s Political Dilemma and the Developmental State: Dead-Ends and Exit” Some of the reactions raised serious and legitimate questions; others emanated from misunderstandings of the actual contents of the article; still others drifted more toward acrimony and