Tag Archives: East Africa
The US government has criticised countries in the East African region for their continued human rights violations and political oppression in its annual report on human rights practices around the world. The US state department’s 2012 Country Reports on Human … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Red Sea, Somalia, United States' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
|
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has denied that the government is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land in order to lease it to foreign investors. “As far as land grabbing is … read more »
Ethiopia has been working to strengthen existing economic ties among the nations of East Africa, according to the Foreign, Defence and Security Affairs Standing Committee of the House of People’s Representatives, the lower chamber of the Ethiopian Parliament. The Committee … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Nigeria, West Africa
|
Tagged African Union Mission, African Union Mission to Somalia, AMISOM, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Somalia, Uganda
|
By Allan Brian Ssenyonga, opinion First of all, let me start by pointing out that I have not received a cheque from Rwanda Development Board (RDB) to promote tourism in Rwanda much as I would not refuse it if it … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Rwanda
|
Tagged East Africa, genocide, IndepthAfrica, Kabale University, Kampala, KIGALI, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
|
By Jerry Okungu,The Star column Kenya hosts the third largest UN complex outside the US and Europe. For decades now, Kenya has been the landing pad for many operations – military, humanitarian and rescue missions – in the Horn of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Op-ed
|
Tagged East Africa, East African Community, Ethiopia, Great Lakes Region, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, South Sudan, Uganda
|
By E.G. Woldegebriel ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia– Ethiopia’s capital will mine its largest landfill to produce energy, as part of a bid to eliminate trash and supplement the country’s hydropower supply, which could be vulnerable to droughts and increasingly extreme weather. … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, East Africa, EEPCO F.C., Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, IndepthAfrica, Ministry of Water and Energy, Watt
|
By Andy Ryan, ThinkAfricaPress site analysis Afewerki’s grip on power in Eritirea is showing signs of weakness. But will we see a coup, cosmetic reforms or even an uprising? Ever since 1993, when Eritrea gained independence and the national assembly … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Afewerki, African Union, Asmara, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Isaias Afewerki, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Reporters Without Borders
|
Mohammed Awad ADDIS ABABA: Adina is a 24-year-old recent university graduate. For the past four years she has learned and worked toward achieving her goal of going abroad for a Master’s degree. This past week she received word from two … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, African Union Commission, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Pan-Africanism
|
By Leonerd Wanyama The Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) recently posted on its website a Contingency Planning Memorandum on Electoral Violence in Kenya. The document seems to have gained traction as an unofficial country risk analysis, with its identification of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya
|
Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Barkan, East Africa, elctions in kenya, IEBC, Irwin Cox, Kenya, Kenyan, kenyan elections 2013, United States
|
Spain signs air agreement with Ethiopia The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority has signed a bilateral air transport agreement with Spain. The agreement was signed between the Civil Aviation Authority’s Director Generaland the Spanish Ambassador to Ethiopia. This agreement will further … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Facebook, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, spain, Sudan
|
By Manaye Ewunetu, Addis Fortune column In recent years, East African countries that form the Horn of Africa have generally been experiencing unprecedented economic growth. Whilst Ethiopia is no exception, the impact of the recent global economic downturn has affected … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba, Central Statistical Agency, East Africa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Middle East, news ethiopia, Politics of Ethiopia
|
The East African Community will deploy a team of election observers during the March 4, 2013 Kenya general elections. This follows an invitation extended by the government of Kenya to the regional body to deploy a 40-member election observer mission. … read more »
Committee to Protect Journalists press release Nairobi — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the revival of criminal charges against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen Desalegn today in what appears to be a politicized court hearing designed to censor one of the … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, Committee to Protect Journalists, East Africa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Journalist, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia
|
By Faysal Qassim “Authoritarian leaders do repeat their tactics, once as tragedy, second as farce,” a modified version of Marx’s assertion in his article The Eighteenth Brumaire. On February 5, the regime in Ethiopia released a documentary film entitled “Jihadawi … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Akeldama, Authoritarianism, Democracy, East Africa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia
|
Eritrea made a rare foray into international headlines on Monday Jan. 21, as news agencies and social media sites disseminated speculation of a coup attempt. Reliable information on events in Asmara is hard to come by, however, with the tiny … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, East Africa, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean, eritrean news, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, international law, Isaias Afewerki, Somalia
|
by Ronald Ssekandi ADDIS ABABA, — African leaders will gather here on Sunday for a two-day meeting, aiming to bring about the continent’s renaissance in the context of globalization. They will be meeting at the 20th African Union summit held … read more »
Posted in African Union (AU), Angola, Article, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, African Renaissance, African Union, East Africa, Economic Community of Central African States, Economic Community of West African States, Ethiopia, Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden, Indepth Africa Magazine, Pan-Africanism
|
Ethiopia and South Sudan have signed an agreement to work jointly on measures aimed at combating regional security threats and ensuring peace along their shared border. The agreement was reached after senior army officers from the two neighbouring countries held … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, East Africa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, Jonglei, Juba, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, SouthSudan, Sudan, Upper Nile
|
Zekre Lebona As soon as I was released, the French Embassy asked me to translate a booklet on the “Political Program of the United National Front of Kampuchea” that I had brought from the bush. Its contents foreshadowed the horror. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged East Africa, Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea news, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Eritreans, eritreans news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Khmer Rouge, Sierra Leone, Soviet Union
|
By Yohannes Berhe In the first part of my commentaries, The future of democracy in Ethiopia, I presented some of the potential threat to the stability of our country as a result of a sudden turn of events. Further, I … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Azeb Mesfin, East Africa, Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia africa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Ethnicism, History, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Nation-State, news ethiopia, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
|
Peter Heinlein,VOA A day-long siege at Eritrea’s information ministry Monday ended in a stalemate, with disgruntled soldiers retreating to a strategic location outside the capital, Asmara. That the incident provides rare insight into the inner workings of one of the … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, East Africa, Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea news, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean news, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Monday, Political prisoner, Reporters Without Borders, United Nations, Vincent
|
by Sean McLachlan One of the byproducts of travel is that you become more aware of events that don’t get much coverage back home. The sports pages here in Spain, for example, aren’t exactly full of stories about the upcoming … read more »
Posted in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Soccer, Sports
|
Tagged 2013 afcon fixtures, 2013 afcon tickets, Addis Ababa, afcon fixtures, afcon tickets african nations, africa cup 2013, africa cup nations, african cup, African Nations Cup, cup of nations, East Africa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, FIFA World Rankings, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, nations cup 2013, news ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia
|
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Hundreds of demonstrators torched 221 coffins outside Kenya’s parliament on Wednesday in protest at legislators who voted last week to triple their end-of-term bonuses and award themselves state funerals. President Mwai Kibaki, aware of popular resentment over … read more »
by Thomas C. Mountain “Soon come” as Jamaica’s Rastafarians say. In this case it applies to the end of the Ethiopian regime which is now in its terminal stage, in intensive care on life support and being kept alive only … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jamaica, Meles Zenawi, Pax Americana
|
We are species of self-professed fixers: our forbears domesticated plants and animals and liberated our kind from hunting and gathering; when natural capacity waned the genius of Haber and Bosch gave us inorganic fertilizers; Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian latest news, ethiopian news, ethiopian news ethiopia news, Gibbe III Dam, Gilgel Gibe III Dam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Lake Turkana, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Omo River
|
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan agreement of US$115 million to finance the construction of a cross-border electricity transmission link between Ethiopia and Kenya. The US$1.26 billion Ethiopia-Kenya power line project is a 1,068 km high-voltage transmission … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya
|
Tagged African Development Bank, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa, EEPCO F.C., Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya
|
Ten years ago Kenya captured the imagination of the world when it experienced a change of power from the reign of long standing leader Daniel Arap Moi to Mwai Kibaki. It was a change that was seen as having broken … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya
|
Tagged Daniel arap Moi, East Africa, International Criminal Court, John Githongo, Kenya, kenya news, Kenyan, kenyan news, Mwai Kibaki, South Sudan
|
Ethiopian National Security and Intelligence Agency confirmed on Wednesday the report that fifteen members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Al Qaeda’s network in East Africa had been arrested. Military training manuals, jihad war videos and a variety of weapons … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Counter-terrorism, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Kenya, National Security and Intelligence Agency, Somali
|
Ethiopia coach Sewnet Bishaw has dropped five of his players from his 31-man provisional squad that has pitched camp in Addis Ababa. The team has been reduced to 26 and it has been revealed that three more players will be … read more »
Posted in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Soccer, Sports
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, africa cup nations, Burkina Faso, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, ethiosport, Niger, South Africa, Zambia
|
Five East African countries are expected to become beneficiaries of the Eastern Electricity Highway project which is expected to see these countries using Ethiopia’s surplus electric power for their domestic uses, reports Capital. The five countries expected to be connected … read more »
Posted in Comoros, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea
|
Tagged East Africa, EEPCO F.C., Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Tanzania, World Bank
|
By Khadra Abdille, Minnesota Literacy Council I’m from Somalia in East Africa; I grew up in North Somalia. I was born able to hear, and throughout most of my life I could hear. When I was 14 years old I … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
|
Tagged Argentine Sign Language, ASL, East Africa, Education, Hearing impairment, IndepthAfrica, Lip reading, Sign language, Somalia
|
|
Calendar 
