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Why the Federal Minister of Trade of Ethiopian (Abdurahman Sheikh Mohammed) was Sacked by Meles Zenawi? What are the facts and who are the Key Players in this case? By A Yakume* In November 2011, Abdurahman Sheikh Mohammed, a 29 … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Yakume A
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Harar, Meles Zenawi, Non-governmental organization, Ogaden, Somali people, Somali Region, Somalia
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By John Githongo opinion The general election has been concluded and a winner declared. Congratulations are in order to all the winners and all contestants. The process was far from perfect. A friend marvelled grimly last week: “You mean in … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya, Op-ed
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Tagged Civil Society, Corruption Perceptions Index, IndepthAfrica, John Githongo, Kenya, Nation Media Group, Non-governmental organization, Transparency International, United States
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By Giordano Cossu GOGTI, Ethiopia—The dry season is at its peak in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, and due to scarcer rains, a new food and water emergency looms. With the 2011 famine in memory, the Ethiopian government, the people, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Internally displaced person, Kenya, Non-governmental organization, Politics of Ethiopia, Somali Region, Somalia
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By Sondon S. Mugaradziko Introduction The impact of the just-ended Constitutional referendum will have a bearing on the future politics in Zimbabwe. Once again as Zimbabweans we have been unified in the same way we did in the 1980 general … read more »
Posted in Article, Op-ed, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Elections in Zimbabwe, IndepthAfrica, Non-governmental organization, Southern African Development Community, voting, ZEC, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
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By William Davison, csmonitor A well-known German foundation decamps from Ethiopia. Other long-time donors find new official agency and law restrictive and confusing. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Of the many outreach programs run here by Germany’s Heinrich Böll Foundation, one caused … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Canada, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Non-governmental organization, United Nations
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Mrs Mutharika also went after Joyce Banda for saying that that there’s hunger in the country claiming there’s maize but the citizenry doesn’t have the money to buy it. “There’s no hunger in Malawi. How can one say there’s hunger … read more »
Ethiopian authorities have banned three civic organisations, accusing the NGOs of engaging in activities that break 2009’s Charities and Societies Proclamation law. The Ethiopian government alleged that the three NGOs were banned as a result of conducting “illegal religious activities” … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia, Civil Society, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Islam, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Non-governmental organization, Organization, Sudan Tribune
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Ethiopia bans NGOs
Ethiopia on Friday banned three civic organisations accusing them of doing ‘illegal religious activities.’ The ban came at a time when Ethiopian muslims are protesting against perceived government interference in their activities. No further details were made available … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged crime, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Government, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islam, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Non-governmental organization, Ritual
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Israel accused of coercing Eritrean refugees to ‘volunteer’ for deportation Local UN official, NGO claim Israel tells Eritrean nationals that they can either go back to home, where their lives would be in danger, or remain in jail. By Talila … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Dov Khenin, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Hotline for Migrant Workers, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Non-governmental organization, Uganda, United Nations
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The international human rights “Amnesty International”, based in London, has rebelled Friday against “the crackdown on social and economic rights” in Algeria. Recalling the arrest on January 2 in the region of Ouargla of an activist for the rights of … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Columnist, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Algeria, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Arab Spring, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Mena, Non-governmental organization, United Nations
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Solid, longstanding relations between the United states and Morocco. Throughout history, leaders of both countries have alwys been keen to continue working and coordinating with each other to further develop and expand their bilateral ties. Every time the issue of … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Fellow, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, King Mohammed, Mohammed VI of Morocco, Morocco, Non-governmental organization, United States, Washington D.C
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On December 10, the world celebrated the International Day of Human Rights. A day that has come a long way since 1948. Lives sacrificed, bloodshed, lost destinies, people braved the ban to fight against humiliation, injustice, intolerance to achieve respect … read more »
Posted in Article, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Arab Spring, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, International observance, Morocco, Non-governmental organization, North Africa, Tunisia, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Heinrich Böll Foundation country director Patrick Berg said the current NGO law makes it impossible for the foundation to carry out its mandate to encourage inclusive political debate. Credit: Ed McKenna/IPS ADDIS ABABA , Nov 22 2012 (IPS) – The … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Human rights, Human rights in Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, NGO, Non-governmental organization, United Nations Human Rights Council
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Source: member // Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) NRC prefabricated shelter assembled and ready for mud plastering, which will be carried out by the beneficiaries themselves with support and supervision from NRC staff. Photo: NRC/Karoline Røsholm Eckroth The sounds of hammering, … read more »
By: Said Temsamani On November 9 King Mohammed VI visited the construction site of the Mohammed VI green city, close to Benguerir, a one-off project in Africa that gives a new royal impetus to a megaproject joining modernity and sustainable … read more »
By Jeremy Weate The development sector has for the past few years been criticised for being ineffectual. This has come both from ex-insiders, such as Owen Barder and William Easterly, as well as those outside the sector, most notably by … read more »
Peter Kenworthy ‘The people in the refugee camps are starving,’ Minister of Public Health in the government of the Western Saharan government in exile, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Lamin Dadi, told Danish NGO Africa Contact on Tuesday. Dadi … read more »
A “model mother” from Gelsha kebele (village) in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, Zenitu Sheperaw is 24 years old with two young children. Her first child was often sick and crying at night as an infant, but after learning about better feeding … read more »
By Alemayehu G. Mariam For the past several months, there has been much display of public sorrow and grief in Ethiopia. But not for the millions of invisible Ethiopians who are suffering and dying from starvation, or what the “experts” … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian government, Famine, George W. Bush, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Non-governmental organization, Somalia
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Marishka Van Steenbergen, guardian.co.uk, UN report on ageing highlights how traditional practices have resulted in the deaths of thousands of older women Nyamizi, a 73-year-old widow from Sukumaland, Tanzania, was returning home from work one night when she was attacked … read more »
Posted in Article, Tanzania, Women
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Tagged Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, Non-governmental organization, Stop Violence Against Women, Tanzania, Traditional medicine, United Nations Population Fund, violence against women
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In an earlier article I explained how disturbed I was at the way the political rhetoric of politicians and some NGOs seemed to create a double standard in the way they expected the protesters to act vis à vis the … read more »
New Europe Post by Nicolas Beger On 25 July, the European Union adopted its strategic framework on human rights and democracy and appointed Stavros Lambrinidis its first special representative for human rights, seeking to “enhance the effectiveness and visibility of … read more »
/mg.co.za Immigrants and refugees living in Mayfair in Johannesburg are living in fear after threatening, xenophobic letters began circulating in the area. A group calling itself the South African Blacks Association (Saba) has made graphic threats of violence against foreigners … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Greece, Human rights, immigration, IndepthAfrica, Mayfair, Non-governmental organization, Somalia, South Africa, South African Human Rights Commission
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Judith Amanthis Seventy percent of Ghanaian homes don’t have a WC or a pit latrine. Piped water, if you have it at all, is intermittent, so water in your tap depends on whether you can afford a domestic reservoir. In … read more »
Posted in Article, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, Aqua Vitens Rand, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, East Africa, Ghana, Ghana Water Company, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, Millennium Development Goals, news, news 24, news in africa, Non-governmental organization, North Africa, South Africa, south african news, sub-Saharan Africa, travel to africa, West Africa, World Bank
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By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong Ghana’s economic surge has come with it service delivery challenges. With socio-economic inequality widening and much of the population rural bound, the delivery of goods and services still remain a daunting task. Of recent times, service delivery … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, News, West Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, breaking news, East Africa, eGovernment, Ghana, Ghanaian, Greater-Accra Region, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Information and Communication Technology, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, Non-governmental organization, nothafrica, Public–private partnership, West Africa, World Bank
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Deepa Panchang “Where you stand,” goes an old Haitian proverb, “depends on where you sit.” This article, the second in a series, will examine aid workers’ stereotypes and prejudices about residents of displacement camps in post-earthquake Haiti, stemming from acute … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged 2010 Haiti earthquake, About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, breaking news, Displaced person, East Africa, Haiti, Haitian, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, International Organization for Migration, IOM, NGO, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, Non-governmental organization, nothafrica, West Africa
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Gay African asylum seekers struggle to find work and battle homophobic discrimination in South Africa, the continent’s only nation to allow same-sex marriage, a report showed Tuesday. Interviews with 25 Africans by a Cape Town NGO found that 90 percent … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, Cape Town, East Africa, Gender identity, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, latest africa news, Lesbian, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, Non-governmental organization, North Africa, PASSOP, Refugee, South Africa, south african news, travel to africa, West Africa
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- On Saturday June 9 the New African Union Hall hosted a conference unlike any other it had seen in the few months since it was inaugurated. The conference was one called to show solidarity against the international pressure being … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Abune Paulos, Africa news, African news, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Catholic Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Non-governmental organization, United States
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Forty years ago, two ideas about humanity’s relationship with the natural world caught the imagination of the richest and most influential people. The first was that the demands of a growing population were taking more from the planet than could … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Brundtland Commission, Earth Summit, IndepthAfrica, Malthusianism, Non-governmental organization, Sustainable development, United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Sustainable Development Conference
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Cairo – Egyptian authorities have denied permission to eight US-based nonprofit groups to operate locally, including a centre headed by former American president Jimmy Carter that monitors elections, a ministry official said on Monday. The Social Affairs Ministry official said … read more »
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jimmy Carter, Monday, Non-governmental organization, United States, Washington
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