Daily Archives: October 29, 2012
By: Said Temsamani October 30, 2012 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s Western Sahara envoy Christopher Ross, spurned by Morocco in May, began a visit to the kingdom early on Saturday, the Moroccan foreign ministry said. Details of the visit were … read more »
SOME things are better not said. Nigeria’s attitude to accountability casts slurs on any efforts to fight corruption and the criminalities it sustains. How can $26.5 million (about N4.24 billion) be paid to the Federal Government, and nobody is sure … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Accountant General, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Federal government of the United States, GoodluckJonathan, Halliburton, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Olusegun Obasanjo, United States
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By ethioadvocate.com This brief article is a reflection of our thoughts about an article that appeared on Online on 2012-10-29 titled “Ethiopia: A Time for a Paradigm Shift”, by Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D. For a general overview of our thoughts … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Ethiopian people, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Oppositions, People of Ethiopia, Politics of Ethiopia
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The need for a democratic political system is one that we often hear and from different corners. The national discourse on the need for democracy is unanimous but the means of getting to that end is one that is heavily … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Democracy, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Facebook, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Politics, United States
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By David Barboza, The New York Times Editor’s Note- Corruption in Ethiopia is so rife that the country had lost over $11.7 billion to illicit capital outflows from 2000 to 2009, according to a report by the Global Financial Integrity. … read more »
Over the last few months I have, like most Ghanaians home and abroad, been following with keen interest the December electioneering campaigning of the major political parties competing in this elections. I have engaged in discussions on policy positions of … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana
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Tagged Ghana, ghanaiain election, Ghanaian, IndepthAfrica, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Political campaign, SHS
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By Julia Belluz On a recent visit to Debre Libanos, a 13th-century monastery outside Addis Ababa, one of Ethiopia’s few psychiatrists found 17 people in chains. Suffering from serious mental health issues ranging from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder, they’d somehow … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mental Health, University of Toronto, World Health Organization
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by Teshome Debalke The West may have won the Cold War but, lost the battle for democracy and the free market on its own making; competing with authoritarian regime of China on economic development and praising small time tyrants as … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Authoritarianism, Capitalism, China, Cold War, Economic Development, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Western world
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What a Senseless Jock! Commentary T.Goshu Never the only one; but one of the most hypocritical and disingenuous political drama on the very fake political game of “the transfer of historic and peaceful political power” manifested itself when the late … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ato MELES Zenawi, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Ethiopian people, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Prime minister
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Analysis: Iran missiles destroyed in attack on Khartoum ‘factory’ could have threatened Israeli ships, oil and gas drilling. Israel Opinion All signs indicate that it was not an “arms factory” that was bombed in Sudan recently, but a huge shipment … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Egypt, Gaza, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Satellite Sentinel Project, Sudan, Sudan news, sudanese news
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Kenyan police officers continued their anti-terrorism operations on Sunday when they killed or arrested suspected members of a Somalia-based Islamist group, one of whom lived in the same western Kenya location as some family members of President Barack Obama who … read more »
Posted in Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Al Shabaab terrorists, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, kenyan news, Kismayo, Mombasa, Nairobi, Obama family, Somalia
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IRIN Nairobi — Any hopes for an imminent end to conflict in Ethiopia’s Somali region were dashed earlier this month when talks between the government and the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) broke down. Hosted by Kenya’s government in … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Nairobi, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, ONLF, Politics of Ethiopia, Somali Region
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Spanish rescue services have saved 66 clandestine immigrants who were trying to reach Europe from Morocco on rickety boats, officials announced Monday. Attempts to reach Europe by African migrants have increased in recent days and at least 16 drowned last … read more »
The wife of a senior Ethiopian politician was on Monday charged with funnelling money from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Islamist terror groups, at a hearing at the Ethiopian Federal High Court, on Monday. Habiba Mohammed, wife of former … read more »
by Mwongera Kioga This review is from: There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra (Kindle Edition) Chinua Achebe is a great writer, with well thought out and concise work that is well presented and easy to read. However … read more »
By Isaac Esipisu, Reuters By Aaron Maasho Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Badme, Eritrea, eritrean news, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaUganda, Isaias Afewerki, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam, South Sudan
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ADDIS ABABA — Twenty-nine Ethiopian Muslims were charged Monday with plotting acts of “terrorism”, the majority arrested after protests accusing the government of interference in religious affairs. According to court documents, the group is accused of “intending to advance a … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, AFP, Agence France-Presse, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, Islam, July, Monday, Muslim
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Israel has turned away dozens of African asylum-seekers, mostly Eritreans trying enter the country from Egypt, human rights groups have said. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and two Israeli NGOs said that “since June, Israeli forces patrolling Israel’s newly constructed border fence … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Refugees/Migrants, Somali
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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Israelis have taken to the streets to protest about the number of illegal African immigrants living in their neighourhoods in Tel Aviv. Officials estimate 60 thousand people have crossed illegally into Israel in recent years via the desert border with … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Somali
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Tagged African immigration to the United States, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Egypt, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Middle East, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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