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By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 7th, 2023 Leading economists of the world always promoted and spoke of regional economic integration as a phenomenon that helps regional economies grow and develop. They say that regional integration helps countries overcome obstacles to the movement of goods, services, labor and capital, and even ideas, among several neighboring countries. […]

By Vittorio Silvestri Will peace prevail ? It is no doubt that hope, and to certain extent, faith, have been growing in the Horn regarding elusive PEACE, in the aftermath of meetings convened first in Pretoria and subsequently in Nairobi between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the designated terrorist group, the TPLF in the

by A. Alemayehu This month, as a great number of Ethiopians are preparing to celebrate two major Orthodox Christian holidays, ominous dark clouds are gathering over the skies of the Oromo region. All the signs that the unabetted bloodletting of innocent Amhara is about to worsen are in place. This tragedy is unfolding even as

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 6th, 2023 The Nile is a vital and major African river, which traverses through many African countries from source in the Burundian mountains to its final destination in the Mediterranean Sea, in Egypt. Its major tributaries come from different countries but the most significant is the Blue Nile, which emanates

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 5th, 2023   The region faces multiple challenges, most of them man-made and hence could be handled. Others are natural such as volcanic activities, land formation, geological infrastructures and, in fact, strategic location. Both man-made and natural phenomenon, however, affect peoples’ lives in the region from food security to water

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 4th, 2023 The Horn of Africa is not alone in the loss of reason across the world. Man always thinks that he can master the elements and earth and the skies and the universes beyond. While to some extent, there may be truths to trying to solve intractable or near

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 3rd, 2023 Agriculture remains the mainstay of the economy of the region. It was always the case and would remain so in the foreseeable future and it should, therefore, also remain one of the priorities of governments of the states of the region. The region largely relies on smallholder farms,

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 2nd, 2023   The world has not changed. Only the number has changed. It says we are now in 2023 and not in 2022. Everything else continues on the same pace and evolution. We have the European war in Ukraine still raging and we still have the Americans keeping the