Monthly Archives: September 2012
By Abebe Aynete The recent unsuccessful story in Ethiopia has related with the highest influx of economic migrants to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC). The Gulf Cooperation Council countries comprise Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Domestic worker, Ethiopia, Human trafficking, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Kuwait, Migrant domestic workers, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, Saudi Arabia
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Respeaking Truth to the Powerless For several years now, I have been “speaking truth to power”. In fact, the tag line for my blog page is “Defend Human Rights. Speak Truth to Power.” It is a special phrase which asserts … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King, May 2010, ruling party
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By Moses Alao,Nigeria Tribune Apart from attaining 52 years of nationhood this year, Nigeria should also be celebrating 13 years of return of democracy after military interregnum. But it appears that the nation is battling many challenges. Indeed, the ruling … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Abia State, Action Congress of Nigeria, Ekiti State, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Nigeria, Ondo State, Orji Uzor Kalu, PDP, People Democratic Party
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Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D This is an independent voice of what I think are the silent Ethiopians. It is a voice lost in the wilderness of the political commotion. Granted, the voice is well known by all and yet seldom listened … read more »
By Zeke Endris, tigraionline The uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia gave a sudden hope to the self-appointed western Human Rights entrepreneurs and their local benefactors who have long been calling for a regime-change in Ethiopia. These elements had become desperate, … read more »
The notorious underwear bomber who tried to bring down a jumbo jet on Christmas Day had a dirty little secret – he’d been wearing the explosive skivvies for weeks. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab wore them for three weeks to be exact, … read more »
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun Northern Mali, captured by Muslim fundamentalists earlier this year, is rapidly becoming a new haven and headquarters for the al-Qaida terrorist network. Al-Qaida’s growing presence in the Sahel region stretching across West Africa from the … read more »
Seble Teweldebirhan, (Ezega.com) She is probably four or five years old. She is small and adorably cute regardless of her dirty clothes and unwashed, messed up hair. She wanders on the street around Bole Medhanialm area waiting for pedestrians … read more »
Luck betrayed a 65-year-old grandmother, Hassan Fatimat Abike also known as Chika Okoye, who attempted to smuggle 1.740kg of cocaine into London concealed in herbal syrup. It was not her fist time of going to London as the drug was … read more »
(AP) — Officials say a bomb detonated in northern Nigeria near an Islamic boarding school, causing unknown casualties. Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, said the bomb blew up Sunday morning in Zaria, a city in … read more »
Joe Erico, a retired goalkeeper of the former Green Eagles in the 1970s, wants total support for the Super Eagles’ Coach, Stephen Keshi, in the October13 clash against the Lone Star of Liberia in Calabar. Erico who spoke in Lagos … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Soccer
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Tagged Calabar, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, John Mikel Obi, Liberia, Nigeria, Nigeria national football team, South Africa, Stephen Keshi
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By Audrey Charowa Zimbabwe’s 88year old President used his speech at the 67th Annual Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York this week to attack NATO States as “Warmongers”. Although, they’ve killed far less people than Zimbabwe’s … read more »
Posted in Article, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Robert Mugabe, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, Zimbabwe
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Mogomotsi Mogodiri Malema’s charges will really usher in a hilarious soap opera The seriousness of charges levelled against Julius Malema has robbed me of an opportunity to proclaim the arrival in town of “Juju’s Circus”. This does not by any … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Lonmin, Malema, Politics, Public Protector
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NEW YORK, (algemeiner)—In July 2012, the Israeli government announced its decision to allow the aliyah of the last remnants of the Ethiopian Jewish community. Each month, 250 Falash Mura (Ethiopian Christians of Jewish ancestry) will complete legal immigration until the … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia
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Tagged American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Anthony H. Williams, ethiopian jews, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, ethiopians in Isreal, Facts about Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, Judaism, New York
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A number of children have been hurt in a grenade attack on a church in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, police and media say. The attacker targeted the Sunday school section of the church on Juja Road. The Daily Nation newspaper … read more »
Unlikely males, Ethiopian sprinters dominates in the female category of the 5th edition of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon race by surpassing close contestant Kenyan athletes as the first two spots were sealed by Ethiopian racers while third place is cemented … read more »
Amanuel Hidrat The biological clock (body clock) is always ticking. How fast it ticks depend on the combination of genetic and environment. Both our experience and behaviors influence the speed at which the clock ticks. By the same token political … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Eritrea, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Mark Bowden, Meles Zenawi, Somalia, United Nation
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By Senator Obert Gutu, thezimbabwemail These are some of the adjectives that one can use to describe the MDC participation in the so-called ” inclusive” government.I am exactly two years and three months old as a deputy minister in this government. … read more »
By: Jim Kouri On Thursday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Pastor Laolu Akande, Executive Director of the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN), blasted the terrorist group Boko Haram for the bombing of … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, bokoharam, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Islamism, Nigeria, U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, United States House Committee on Homeland Security, Youtube
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by Marko Phiri Questions are being asked whether Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is bent on stirring the country back to the political chaos of 2008 as his party Zanu PF stalls the constitution making process. Without a new constitution, … read more »
Posted in Article, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Arab Spring, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Mugabe, Munyaradzi Gwisai, Robert Mugabe, Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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(AFP)Gareth Bale scored one goal and set up another as Tottenham beat Manchester United for the first time in 23 Premier League matches with a thrilling 3-2 win on Saturday. Spurs’s first victory at Old Trafford since December 1989 saw … read more »
Luis Suarez netted a Carrow Road hat-trick for the second straight season as Liverpool romped to a 5-2 success against Norwich as the Reds recorded their first league win under Brendan Rodgers. The Uruguay striker opened the scoring with a clinical right-footed finish … read more »
Halimatu Ayinde’s second brace of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup was enough to send Nigeria into the quarter-finals and Colombia out in a 3-0 victory. Chinwendu Ihezuo went close early on, her bullet header going just wide as she … read more »
Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security prison in eastern Ontario, after spending a decade at a U.S.-run detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Khadr, 26, left … read more »
by Tedla Asfaw Ethiopia: Hailemariam Desalegn Unwelcome in New York City The rainy cloudy Sept. 28, 2012 was not a welcome weather for anyone. It was raining hard from early morning and we followed the weather hour by hour fearing … read more »
By Yilma Bekele There is no place on planet earth that begs for change like our country. There is no need to itemize all the areas where we stand at the tail end of human achievement. That is the bad … read more »
Video: Ethiopia PM Address to 67th UN General Assembly
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Friday defended its decision to turn back hundreds of Nigerian women who flew into the kingdom for the Haj, saying they had failed to abide by the rules for the annual pilgrimage. “The rules for the … read more »
Rebel al Shebab forces say they have withdrawn from Somalia’s southern port city of Kismayo, their last urban stronghold, a day after a seaborne assault by African Union troops. The group says it is a tactial retreat. One day after … read more »
Hailemariam Desalegn’s recent interview with Peter Heinlein of VOA confirms that his rise to the helm of power can be largely attributed to his opportunistic imitation of how the late dictator talked and walked as well as his commitment to … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amhara National Democratic Movement, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Osama bin Laden, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, United States
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