Monthly Archives: October 2012
A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews that landed in Israel was described by the Israeli government as the launch of the final stage of mass immigration from Ethiopia Members of the Israel and Overseas Committee of UJA Federation … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Aliyah from Ethiopia, Ben-Gurion International Airport, Beta Israel, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency for Israel, Jewish Federations of North America, Yoseftal Medical Center
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. John Foster Dulles Contextual Background In the last decade, the United States Central Intelligence … read more »
Returns of thirty per cent a year sound too good to be true, but that’s what it is claimed you can earn by investing in this rising nation. Local businesses say they are booming, meanwhile foreign investors are jostling for … read more »
Legacy of Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia (1991-2012) By Dula Abdu Deservedly or not, Meles has received accolades from various sources, especially from western intellectuals and politicians. On the other hand, many Ethiopian observers see nothing redeeming, but malaise, destruction of … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, European Union, Foreign Policy, Indepth Africa Magazine, Meles, Meles Zenawi, North American Free Trade Agreement
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Ethiopia: The search for a better life. Students may have been holed up in dorms and apartments as Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but it wasn’t enough to stop Dining Services employees from coming to work. To ensure students had food … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian people, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jordan, Meles Zenawi
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Ethiopian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Somali refugees. What do you think they go through? Refugees in Egypt face regular threat of arrest, torture, and deportation to their countries of origin. The revolution has not changed that reality. On the life of … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Darfur, Darfuri, Egypt, eritreans news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Libya, Libyan, Omar al-Bashir, Somali, sudanese news, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — White South Africans earn six times more than black South Africans nearly two decades after the end of apartheid and much remains to be done to reduce the disparities between rich and poor, the president said after … read more »
(UPI) — Human Rights Watch said it had concerns that charges filed against an opposition leader in Rwanda were politically motivated. The High Court in Kigali this week found Victoire Ingabire, leader of the opposition FDU-Inkingi party, guilty of ties … read more »
A parent in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Bialik allegedly assaulted an Ethiopian school bus guard yesterday, breaking her nose. School Bus Rage: Racist Attack On Ethiopian Bus Guard In Northern Israel Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A parent in … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bus, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kiryat Bialik, Mangistu, Mayor, School bus, Ynet
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By Messay Kebede Scholars loyal to the Woyanne regime, often for the sake of ethnic solidarity, but with some scruples left for the objectivity of scholarly studies engage in a risky project when they undertake the assessment of Meles’s rule … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Developmental State, Economic Development, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Medhane, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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Belachew Gujubo Dear Ato Abebe Gebrehiwet, From Los Angeles area really I liked your article and your feeling concerning the Hedase Dam on Nile R. I absolutely agree with you and others who are being aligned them in this optimist … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Greater Los Angeles Area, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Poverty, Sudan
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Ethiopian National Transitional Council October 29, 2012 Prime Minister’s Office 3 Kaplan Street P.O.Box 187 Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem 91919 Re: The Detentions and Status of the Ethiopian refugees in Israel. Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, The Ethiopian … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Letters & Interviews
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Human Rights Watch, Interior ministry, Israel, National Transitional Council, Prime Minister of Israel, Refugee
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Amidst the unprecedented degree of mayhem Egypt is in today some may question whether the revolution was a disillusion, or even a fallacy that led nowhere. Was this what Egyptians had desired and hoped for? Had they known that this … read more »
Presidential Candidates of the four political parties with representation in Parliament slugged it out on Tuesday evening at the first of two Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) organized presidential debates ahead of the 2012 elections. The debate began with the … read more »
HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday called for peace and tolerance among Zimbabweans as the southern African country heads for general elections next year. Opening the fifth session of the seventh Parliament, he said Zimbabweans must remain focused … read more »
Posted in Election, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Harare, IndepthAfrica, Joice Mujuru, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, United States, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front, zimbabwe election
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By Johannes Stern The misnamed Revolutionary Socialists (RS) in Egypt are working out a political alliance with billionaire tycoons, ex-Mubarak-regime officials, operatives of the United Nations, Nasserites and various liberal and pseudo-left parties. On October 18 they published a joint … read more »
By Sybille Fuchs The US is increasingly using private security forces to wage its wars and maintain its occupation of countries after the withdrawal of regular troops. Both in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of mercenaries and dozens of private security … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Joseph Kony, Uganda, Ugandan, ugandan news, United States, World Socialist Web Site, Yoweri Museveni
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By Charles Mtetwa A SUDDEN plunge of an Ethiopian Airlines flight triggers confusion and murmurs of uncertainty as the Airbus charts through the Addis Ababa to Harare flight trail. But no message comes through from the flight deck to … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Air Zimbabwe, Bole International Airport, Ethiopian Airlines, Harare, IndepthAfrica, London, United States, Zimbabwe
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By Jerome Mwanda, IDN Some 19 million people in West Africa’s Sahel region are living with the threat of hunger and malnutrition, though the potential to increase agricultural production in Africa is enormous. Poor people in the slums of Nairobi … read more »
By Danny Glover, FPIF I had the privilege of traveling to Venezuela and witnessing the country’s October 7 presidential election and watching the South American country’s extraordinarily active and engaged citizenry in action. An impressive 81 percent of the electorate … read more »
By: Said Temsamani ‘Morocco is like a tree whose roots go deep into the nourishing soil of Africa and breathes through its leaves rustling in the winds of Europe”! The image was suggested by the late Hassan II, in his … read more »
Lagos – The Lagos state government has warned residents to prepare for the ripple effect of Hurricane Sandy. An official of the state said experience has shown that when hurricanes hit the US, the ripple effect was felt in Lagos … read more »
“We as principals are the ones with the final say. “Ivo vatatu vamuri kuona ava tisu takanyora Global Political Agreement”. These were the statements from an octogenarian perceived by many as a dictator. His current tenure of office has only … read more »
Abay will be built by any means. We will not stop by biased untrue baseless and old information from the opposition group radical/extremists/vocal or ruthless individuals. In fact nowadays you cannot fool us three times. You have to stop from … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Diaspora, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Nile, Sudan, Wikileaks
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Mamo Berhan (berhanmamo@rocketmail.com) I recently read an article titled, “why I will not vote for Obama again’ in one of the so- called opposition web sites. I feel guilty for visiting such web sites. I feel the same guilt whenever … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, erhiopian news, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Nelson Mandela, Republicans, United States, Washington DC
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by Max Fisher An Israeli F-15 fighter takes off during an air show near Beersheva. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images) A military factory in Sudan was destroyed in a mysterious explosion last week, killing two, which the Sudanese government quickly blamed on … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Max Fisher, Sudan, Times, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor The proposal by Dr. David Percy, a leading member of the National Reform Party (NRP), that all Presidents refrain from directing national security during every election is unacceptable. In sum, it is not only absurd … read more »
By Remember P.D Miamingi There are disturbing signs of anti-‘foreigners’ sentiments littered across South Sudan:from the unfriendly receptions fellow Africans from neighboring countries experience at our different border posts, to some serious allegations of exploitation and abuse in Juba. It … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Arabs, Desmond Tutu, IndepthAfrica, John Garang, Juba, Martin Luther King, SouthSudan, Sudan
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Military intervention in foreign countries always leads to unintended consequences. These often occur in neighbor countries of the original target. One example is the Vietnam war which lead to the destabilization of and military intervention in Laos and Cambodia. The … read more »
Abuja — Following the directive by President Goodluck Jonathan that the investigative report into the $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal be re-opened and the major culprits re-arrested, Vanguard gathered that this has resulted in a fall out between two former … read more »
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