Category Archives: East Africa
Honourable Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi, President of the Pan African Parliament, Honourable Vice Presidents of the Parliament, Honourable Members of the Parliament, Your Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps, The Clerk and Staff of the Parliament, Distinguished Ladies and … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Nigeria, Op-ed, South Africa, South Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African Renaissance, African Union, BRIC, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Pan-African Parliament, Pan-Africanism, South Africa
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By Seyoum Tesfaye Atlanta- Georgia As we “celebrate” the 22nd Independence Day of Eritrea we are obligated to face the truth that our national flag is not grounded on Constitution, Justice and Freedom. The tremendous human and material sacrifice paid … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Atlanta, Demographics of Eritrea, EPLF, Eritrea, Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, People's Front for Democracy and Justice
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East Africa is in danger of throwing away part of its new-found oil wealth IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
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Tagged Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Lamu, South Sudan, Sudan, Tullow Oil, Uganda
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US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are planning a three-nation tour to Africa, 26 June to 3 July. The visit is one that has long been anticipated by Africans, but has it come too late to generate … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Accra, Barack Obama, Cape Town, Indepth Africa Magazine, obama, South Africa, Uhuru Kenyatta, United States
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The Eritrean government is still collecting taxes from expatriates in Canada to bankroll its military regime, despite being warned by the Department of Foreign Affairs to stop, a human rights group alleges. New documents appear to show the Consulate General … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Canada, David Matas, Eritrea, Eritrean Government, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Politics of Eritrea, toronto, United Nations Security Council
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Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, guardian.co.uk Delegations from African countries listen to Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa in 1963 at the conference that set up the African Union. Photograph: AFP The African Union (AU) is now 50 years old. Amid the celebrations this … read more »
Posted in Article, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Sierra Leone, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African National Congress, African Union, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Julius Nyerere, OAU, Organisation of African Unity, Pan-Africanism, South Africa
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On May 25, Africa celebrates its Golden Jubilee! The mortar which has been binding the several countries’ slates on the political map of the African continent has been the solidarity established by founding fathers against colonialism. It is the solidarity … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African Renaissance, African Union, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, OAU, Organisation of African Unity, Southern Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Twenty years since Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia after one of Africa‘s longest wars, people are bowed down by a repressive government and increasingly frustrated at the lack of rights they fought for. Opposition parties are banned and anyone who … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Asmara, Badme, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, United Nations
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column Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was a passionate believer in African unity, and a living link with the historic Pan-African movement which had promoted solidarity among people of African descent everywhere against colonialism and racism. Earlier Pan-Africanists had identified … read more »
Posted in African Union (AU), Article, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African Union, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kwame Nkrumah, MPLA, OAU, Pan-Africanism, South Africa
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Tintswalo Ngobeni, 22, fled to England from Africa as a teenager Caught attentions of King Mswati III – monarch notorious for lavish lifestyle Began contacting her at school when she was just 15 Wants asylum saying she could be … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Swaziland
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Tagged Birmingham, Boarding school, England, Home Office, Mswati III, Roger Godsiff, Swaziland, Umhlanga
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By Teklu Abate The regime in Ethiopia and the opposition in the Diaspora and at home appear to live in totally different ‘worlds’. Each is a typical alien to the other. The governing party sees the opposition as powerless, incompetent, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam, Human rights in Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, United States Constitution
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By Susana Edjang The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that have driven the global development agenda, since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 191 member states surprised the world by unanimously agreeing and making, … read more »
Posted in Article, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Monetary Fund, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goal, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, United Nations Millennium Declaration, World Bank
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By Abukar Arman If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone—somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed—you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Abdi Farah Shirdon, Ethiopia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kismayo, Mogadishu, Somali, Somalia
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by Professor Wole Soyinka As a celebrated author, Professor Chinua Achebe’s final burial rites hold this week, I was on the road between Abeokuta and Lagos when I first learned about his death. Who called first – BBC or a Nigerian journalist? … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged African Writers Series, africanliterature, CHINUA ACHEBE, Cyprian Ekwensi, Flora Nwapa, indepthfrica, Nigeria, Onitsha Market Literature, Wole Soyinka
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There is Somali adage that says, “Old man knows what causes his death.” When President Hassan Sh. Mohamud of Somalia started his speech at the second London Conference on Somalia (LCS II) on Maya 7, 2013, with the metaphor of … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Jubbaland, Kenya, Kismayo, Somali, Somalia, somalian, Uhuru Kenyatta
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Selam Kidane From Here to Dignity The lord and master rides by on his horse and the peasant bows lowly and silently farts (a clever old saying… apparently) I came across the above saying in my readings on: shame pride … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged ArbiHarnet, Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, German, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sinai
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House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of played itself out. … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Alemayehu G. Mariam, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, John Kerry, Meles, Meles Dam, Non-governmental organization, World Bank
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Zekre Lebona You can see for yourself- the city is like the ship rolling dangerously; it has lost the power to right itself and raise its head up out of the waves of death. Thebes is dying. There is a … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Adam Hochschild, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Milan Kundera, Oedipus, Oedipus the King, Sophocles
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By Tambay A. Obenson A year ago, Yidnekachew Shumete was one of 3 Ethiopian filmmakers selected for a week-long visit to Monaco and Cannes for workshops, programs and events happening during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in May. Shumete, along … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Addis Ababa, Berlin, Cannes, Ethiopia, Film festival, IndepthAfrica, Medal Of Honor, Monaco, Seattle International Film Festival
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By; Kiflu Hussain I might never have known about the existence of African Media Initiative (AMI), had I not received an invitation from this organization that sounds well intentioned. In 2011, I was pleasantly surprised by an email from … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kiflu Hussain, Op-ed
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Tagged Amy Winehouse, Arizona, Facebook, IndepthAfrica, Julie Larson-Green, Martin Luther King, Microsoft, People, River Song
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors have two weeks to finalize corruption charges against two dozen people who have been arrested, including a senior Cabinet minister. The 24 people charged include the head of Ethiopia’s … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Anti-Corruption, Associated Press, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Melaku Fenta, prosecutor, Rod Blagojevich corruption charges
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The international community must keep Eritrea under “close scrutiny”, an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing the need to fundamentally transform the East African nation’s “current culture of rights denial.” “Blatant disrespect for human rights in Eritrea is unacceptable,” … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Djibouti, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, Human rights, Human rights in Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Keetharuth, Politics of Eritrea, Special Rapporteur
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On 29 July 1936 Abune Petros was executed by the Italian fascist that were trying to colonize our country for his refusal to submit. On May 2, 2013 the monument that was built to commemorate our Holy Father was removed … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Airlines, IndepthAfrica, Italy, People of Ethiopia, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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By Abdihakim Aynte Last week, Somalia’s donors and international partners came together in London to lay down the foundations of post-transitional government in the country. The London gathering, which brought together over 50 heads of state and hundreds of international … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, David Cameron, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, London, Mogadishu, Somali, Somalia, Somaliland
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By Beny Gideon Mabor “I don’t know what’s right and wrong anymore”, he said, tears streaming down his cheeks. “On the one hand, I am warned that you are the tool of oppression against our people, an enemy of the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abyei, Dinka people, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Messiria tribe, Ngok Dinka, South Sudan, Sudan, United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
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By Teklu Abate Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies, people overcome spatio-temporal limitations. We communicate in real time regardless of where we live. Traditionally, communications and collaborations were made between people and organizations that somehow know each other … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Democracy, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Facebook, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, New York, United States, World Bank
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Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Bahaa ElDin said on Saturday that Egypt does not oppose the establishment of development projects or dams along the Nile River as long as it does not affect water distribution between countries. Bahaa … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Ahram, Bahaa ElDin, Egypt, Ethiopia, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Sudan, Wikileaks
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By; Kiflu Hussain Uganda is a 50 year old independent African country unlike Ethiopia that has been hosting OAU/AU for five decades while enjoying her own thousands of years of “independent”history.Ironically, Ethiopia has no independent institution which is equally … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kiflu Hussain, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Obafemi Awolowo University, Organisation of African Unity, Osun State, Pan-Africanism
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Ethiopian police have arrested a minister and 11 other people on corruption charges, an official and state media said on Saturday, in the country’s most high-profile swoop against graft for more than a decade. Businesses in the region regularly complain … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Global Financial Integrity, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Reuters, Rwanda, Siye Abraha
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Eritrea rejects in the clearest of terms Amnesty International’s wild accusations that it has “jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners.” Amnesty’s transparently political assault on Eritrea is totally unsubstantiated, with the organization unable to back its claims with facts. It … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
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Tagged Amnesty, Amnesty International, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Political prisoner
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