By Msmaku Asrat I was reluctant to write on this subject since many have written about it exhaustively. I am writing this from a personal perspective which makes it slightly different from what has been written before According to Nkrumah the first encounter he had with Ethiopia was while walking the streets of London and […]
By [B]The Africa Report[/B] A recent spell of inclement weather in some of the main horticultural areas proved devastating for Ethiopia’s Valentine’s Day flower exports. Officials at the Ethiopian Flowers and Vegetables Exporters Association say that cold weather saw the late cutting of flowers, affecting exports to European market for Valentine’s Day. The association said
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What depression is NOT Even though, depression is a common mental health problem, most people have wrong assumptions about what depression is. Depression is not just feeling down or sad. Because you have a bad mood or occasional melancholy, it doesn’t mean you have depression. We feel sad and our mood is fluctuated as we
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~by Geletaw Zeleke Introduction Ethiopia is one of the richest counties in the world, potentially, but in practice it is one of the poorest countries on Earth. The irony is that natural resources and man power are bountiful but due to low social capital Ethiopia cannot even be self-sufficient. The main problem of overall development
CLASHES BETWEEN THE BORANA AND GABRA AROUND MOYALE, ON THE BORDER WITH ETHIOPIA, HAVE FORCED MORE THAN 20,000 PEOPLE ACROSS INTO ETHIOPIA SPECIAL REPORT BY XINHUA CORRESPONDENTS CHRISTINE LAGAT, STEPHEN INGATI AND NJOROGE KABURO . MOYALE (Xinhua) — Inter-communal clashes in northern Kenya has left some 60 people dead and displaced thousands others in recent
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BY JANICE WINTER, ANALYSIS Daily Maverick’s The AU Summit: A rare ring of truth by Kevin Bloom lauds Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as being unique in speaking “trenchant truth” at an AU gathering in the 49 years since its establishment (initially the OAU). Taking exception to this interpretation, JANICE WINTER exposes where the truth
By Aklog Birara, Ph.D. “The promises of ethnic-federalism were short-lived, and soon betrayed TPLF/EPRDF’s “divide and rule” strategy aiming at securing Tigreans’ political supremacy resulting notably in a pro-Tigrean public good allocation due to an excessive financial dependence of the federal regions on the central government”. See, Y. Ghazi. Autonomy and Ethnicity: negotiating competing claims
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By Aaron Maasho | ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday Ethiopia could pardon politicians and journalists arrested under a 2009 anti-terrorism law, but dismissed opposition criticism he was using the law to clamp down on dissent. Rights groups say the government has used the law to crack down on its
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Ethiopia: UN Disturbed At Persistent Misuse Of Terror Law (Press Release: UN Human Rights Office) GENEVA– A number of UN human rights experts on Thursday expressed their dismay at the continuing abuse of anti-terrorism legislation to curb freedom of expression in Ethiopia. A week ago, three journalists and two opposition politicians* were given prison sentences
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Former beauty-pageant-winner-turned-singer Sayat Demissie vilified the Ethiopian media collectively on negative reportings saying they had no room whatsoever for constructive stories. “In this country, the media work by tarnishing the people we love and respect,” she said at a press conference held at Harmony Hotel on Thursday. The press conference was held following an arbitration
By RUTH EGLASH Federation head tells ‘Post’ that place of Diaspora to intervene on political level in Israel’s social problems. Responding to recent calls by young Ethiopian-Israeli activists for overseas Jews to push the government to tackle widespread discrimination against the immigrant community, a senior American Jewish leader told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that
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A senior Swedish delegation has met in secret with Ethiopia’s prime minister Meles Zenawi to discuss the case of two Swedish journalists jailed in the country for terror crimes, according to media reports. The Swedish delegation headed by foreign minister Carl Bildt’s right hand Fredrik Belfrage met recently with Zenawi for bilateral talks, according to
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